Rating: 
Summary: Solid Receiver - Expected Performance for the Price -
Review: This receiver is an excellent selection for someone looking to put together a starter home theater. Although not the most fancy player, it does everything a person who currently doesn't have a surround system needs - such as built-in Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 decoding and a subwoofer line-level out. It has two digital audio inputs; one optical and one co-axial. These are assignable so you don't have to worry if a device has only an optical or a co-axial output. The unit will also do video switching and has composite and s-video inputs and outputs (but you can't go from s-video in to composite out). Also, it has plently of power for any starter system: 100 Watts (peak) X 5 channels. There are enough inputs for all of the goodies (CD, DVD, minidisc, tape, VCR.) The remote is basic and would could have been better if it was backlit and universal. For this price, it is understandable that the audio quality is not the clearest, but most users will not even notice. Overall, I am very satisfied with this product. This is a good receiver for those just entering the home theater market or for those who are casual listeners that don't need features that they will never use. I would recommend perhaps going with the Kenwood VR-407 or the Pionner VSX-D409 which sell for about the same price. Hope this helps.
Rating:
Summary: Solid Receiver - Expected Performance for the Price -
Review: This receiver is an excellent selection for someone looking to put together a starter home theater. Although not the most fancy player, it does everything a person who currently doesn't have a surround system needs - such as built-in Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 decoding and a subwoofer line-level out. It has two digital audio inputs; one optical and one co-axial. These are assignable so you don't have to worry if a device has only an optical or a co-axial output. The unit will also do video switching and has composite and s-video inputs and outputs (but you can't go from s-video in to composite out). Also, it has plently of power for any starter system: 100 Watts (peak) X 5 channels. There are enough inputs for all of the goodies (CD, DVD, minidisc, tape, VCR.) The remote is basic and would could have been better if it was backlit and universal. For this price, it is understandable that the audio quality is not the clearest, but most users will not even notice. Overall, I am very satisfied with this product. This is a good receiver for those just entering the home theater market or for those who are casual listeners that don't need features that they will never use. I would recommend perhaps going with the Kenwood VR-407 or the Pionner VSX-D409 which sell for about the same price. Hope this helps.
Rating: 
Summary: unsatified with JVC products as follows:
Review: To start with I first purchased a JVC Model XV-M555BK DVD player. It seems that there are times that I must re-insert the DVD in order to get it to read...is this NORMAL??? I can't believe that there are that many DVD's that freeze a frame for 500 milliseconds or more on a scene change as this unit does. [A friend of mine also bought a Model XV-M555BK DVD player and his locked in and would not release All three DVD's.] Then I had to purchase a new receiver, one that has an optical digital input. SO................. I purchased a JVC Model RX-6000VBK receiver...this unit will make the picture loose sync and roll whenever the scene changes. And if there is a lighting storm or some other similar type of scene changes, you guessed it. It rolls/looses sync. Also the output for the center, left and right rear and subwoofer speakers must be all at the max (+10) in order to hear anything out of them...what's the problem. I still have this receiver and need it fixed. I decided to get a better AV receiver the Model RX-8000VBK. It had more digital inputs, which I am sure I will need in the future. This one has great center, left and right rear and subwoofer outputs. Big difference from the 6000. Should there be? BUT I do have a problem with this system...the remote seems to have a mind of it's own...It increases the volume up to the max on it's own. There seems not to be any real UP volume return system in the keypad for the Vol. UP button and a sneeze will trigger it. It was scary until I realized what was happening... Can I get a new remote to replace the defective one. Since I had the JVC system and it has the AV COMPU LINK, I thought it would be nice to connect it to a JVC 27" Model AV-27150 Television along with the S-video input. I don't seem to see any difference from my SHARP 27" it replaced with just the composite video input while using the DVD player. The JVC over the SHARP has a very bad receiver front-end.. I know that my lousy cable company has very bad control over the signal levels of their channels, but there are a lot more "snowy" channels with the JVC. Is this due to the dual tuner, I would think that engineering would have corrected for this with a preamp to compensate for any loss due to the separation of the RF being split between TWO tuners. I have not even tried hooking up the new JVC S-Video VCR model HR-S3600U, afraid of what it may have wrong with it.
Rating:
Summary: unsatified with JVC products as follows:
Review: To start with I first purchased a JVC Model XV-M555BK DVD player. It seems that there are times that I must re-insert the DVD in order to get it to read...is this NORMAL??? I can't believe that there are that many DVD's that freeze a frame for 500 milliseconds or more on a scene change as this unit does. [A friend of mine also bought a Model XV-M555BK DVD player and his locked in and would not release All three DVD's.] Then I had to purchase a new receiver, one that has an optical digital input. SO................. I purchased a JVC Model RX-6000VBK receiver...this unit will make the picture loose sync and roll whenever the scene changes. And if there is a lighting storm or some other similar type of scene changes, you guessed it. It rolls/looses sync. Also the output for the center, left and right rear and subwoofer speakers must be all at the max (+10) in order to hear anything out of them...what's the problem. I still have this receiver and need it fixed. I decided to get a better AV receiver the Model RX-8000VBK. It had more digital inputs, which I am sure I will need in the future. This one has great center, left and right rear and subwoofer outputs. Big difference from the 6000. Should there be? BUT I do have a problem with this system...the remote seems to have a mind of it's own...It increases the volume up to the max on it's own. There seems not to be any real UP volume return system in the keypad for the Vol. UP button and a sneeze will trigger it. It was scary until I realized what was happening... Can I get a new remote to replace the defective one. Since I had the JVC system and it has the AV COMPU LINK, I thought it would be nice to connect it to a JVC 27" Model AV-27150 Television along with the S-video input. I don't seem to see any difference from my SHARP 27" it replaced with just the composite video input while using the DVD player. The JVC over the SHARP has a very bad receiver front-end.. I know that my lousy cable company has very bad control over the signal levels of their channels, but there are a lot more "snowy" channels with the JVC. Is this due to the dual tuner, I would think that engineering would have corrected for this with a preamp to compensate for any loss due to the separation of the RF being split between TWO tuners. I have not even tried hooking up the new JVC S-Video VCR model HR-S3600U, afraid of what it may have wrong with it.
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