Emerson EWW7070 Digital Multi-System VCR

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Summary: World Class World Wide VCR
Review: The Emerson EWW7070 definately added World Class to its world wide capabilities. Straight out of the box, it took PAL I tapes from the UK and played then with excellent quality and stereo sound. It outclassed others I had tried and returned that had cost twice as much. I have now had a chance to play some of the 400 tapes that I brought from England, some over 15 years old, and recommend this unit to anyone needing to play and record foreign VHS tapes.

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Summary: World Class World Wide VCR
Review: The Emerson EWW7070 definately added World Class to its world wide capabilities. Straight out of the box, it took PAL I tapes from the UK and played then with excellent quality and stereo sound. It outclassed others I had tried and returned that had cost twice as much. I have now had a chance to play some of the 400 tapes that I brought from England, some over 15 years old, and recommend this unit to anyone needing to play and record foreign VHS tapes.

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Summary: adequate for people with lots of foreign tapes
Review: This VCR plays my tapes from UK beautifully, and it has very nice stereo sound. The look is different but acceptable. It does not have an automatic tracking system and its remote control (or control on VCR itself) is primitive. I have not tried to use it to record programs from TV directly because I have not figured out how, and there is no need: I have another VCR to do the task. It is a bargain considering converting tapes into different formats would cost a fortune. If you have lots of tapes from other countries, you can certainly give this VCR a try.

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Summary: Great product at awesome price
Review: This VCR will play any and all of your VHS tapes, no matter what system. What is more, you can also view any tape using any TV set. That is, you could play an American tape in Europe at a European TV. It is extremely light-weight, quite handsome, and a perfect piece of equipment for anyone who needs to play different-system VHS tapes in or outside the United States.

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Summary: Excellent purchase
Review: While this VCR lacks many of the fancy options found on conventional VCR's, it's converting capability is excellent. Converting from PAL to NTSC3 was as simple as plugging it in, and the image was crystal clear. I tried the Samsung SV7000W and found it to be hard to operate (it took me some time just to figure out the standard playback channel was not channel 3 or 4). The Samsung also had an inferior and "jittery" picture. In a nutshell, the Emerson isn't much as a normal VCR, it has no fancy options, but for straight conversion purposes it performs quite well. I cannot vouch for any modes outside of PAL to NTSC3 or NTSC3 to NTSC3.

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Summary: Careful with this one - No Tuner or Timer
Review: You may miss from the spec sheet (as I did) that there is no tuner or timer on this machine. The converter works well but you will only use this as a secondary VCR.