i’d say not being able to use dvd+r is a big downside to this product. while i don’t use vcr anymore, my father does. he would like something like this, so there is a market for such a product. with dvd burners at around $40 for my pc i can’t justify this purchase.
was gonna buy it for my grandparents but then i have no money now XD
I just bought a Samsung DVD/VCR combo for $90 from Costco.
I’d return it and get this instead (it’s a great price)… except for the following:
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For the $70 more, I’m honestly not sure what I’d do with the DVD recorder… VHS is reuseable and inexpensive for taping shows, and I can’t imagine why I’d ever care about dubbing the few VHS tapes I own onto DVD.
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According to most reviews I’ve read, these things are about as solid as a swamp. Which leads to…
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I’ll take Costco’s exchange-it-anytime policy over a three-month manufacturer warrantee on refurbished merchandise… especially if it’s as fault-prone as it sounds.
Dan.
It’s actually not that bad since DVD+R is an HP created standard mainly for data. Most video DVD players are DVD-R compatible. Besides, you can record it onto a DVD-RW and then DVD-copy it to DVD+R if you really wanted to. I hate +R, though I admit I tried this method and it works fine (obviously). I usually record everything to RW’s anyway because then this machine lets you edit them (take out commercials, make a menu, set chapters, name the titles, etc. It’s pretty cool if you do it with an RW. After you’re done editing, finalize it and copy it to a normal +/-R. then you can reuse the RW (I RARELY ever burn straight to an R on this thing anymore after testing the extra RW features). It works out great.
Well gang, I just got my posts removed because I was trying to stress the fact that this unit is a referb. If you look at other postings you will learn that this is a unit plaigued (sp) with problems. Woot at your own risk!!!
Hey hey hey now… I still have a collection of fansubbed VHS tapes that were never released on DVD. There exist uses!
I mean, I’m only 22 here. Hardly an old fogey.
pass. let’s go white sox! if clemens wasnt on droids and he wasnt a pitcher of fortune i would’ve rooted for the stro’s!
this looks like fun. i have lots of old live music performances by bands that shall remain nameless. i also have 3 spindles of dvd-r discs…thats 300 minus r dvd. why not use it for the quick and dirty clean up with the TBC? got a canopus a/d capture box if i want to compare. not too much money for an OCD music.video archivist. w00t on baby!
LOL Meh, I can complain, my post was deleted as useless spam. Which is was. I was trying to feel the excitement everyone else has from posting asap on page one. Didnt really feel it. Sorry, woot. For the spam, not lack of excitement. Maybe that too. G’nite.
WARNING: Stop lying, Circuit City and Best Buy! DVD Recorders do NOT record digital TV anywhere near the broadcast quality! Would you trust a zit-faced teenager that listens to rap and drives a rusty Honda with a Folgers-sized exhaust tip anyways?
FACT: MPEG-2 is the standard record mode for this (and all) DVD recorders
FACT: MPEG-2 aint nowhere near the bandwidth needed to copy a digital hi-def signal.
FACT: Cable companies are COMPRESSING digital signals to allow more channels to be passed to your house (How many shopping channels do they think we need, anyways?) thus not even giving you what you pay for.
FACT: There has been no promise from the Blu-ray backers that there wont be mandatory copy protection (even for legal purchasers whom want to use it on another player or encoded format)
FACT: (Intel’s support of HD-DVD over Blu-Ray) ‘The reason we provided support for HD-DVD is that basically it has committed to several features. Specifically, the mandatory managed copy,’ said Donald McDonald, vice president and general manager of Intel’s digital home group.
Managed copy ensures that users can copy the HD content to a PC or media centre for accessing anywhere in the home and on to portable devices.
‘We have not heard an unequivocal statement from the Blu-ray camp to say that you’ll be able to have mandatory managed copy without any kind of complications and any kind of issues,’ McDonald said. ‘The opportunity is for Blu-ray to unequivocally commit to having exactly the same consumer friendly features.’
FACT: Warner Brothers is going Blu-Ray.
Expect to add an HD-DVD recorder and a Blu-Ray recorder alongside this wootable, and a whole world of “We have your money, screw the consumer” attitude from the film companies and cable corporations.
Other than that, good Woot. No HDMI cable though. Sure this would look good on the 61" Wooted InFocus
I thought I have seen brand new units for $190?
Well, I am not going to buy anything DVD until the blue ray of high def DVD comes out.
At first sight, I remembered that my ex-fiancee desperately needed a VCR/DVD combo player. A rush of excitement overwhelmed me as I realized that perhaps this was my chance to win her back! Ever since she dropped the axe on our blossoming romance - last night - I have been sitting in a pile of my own misery. Thinking that this was my chance to mend our broken relationship, I pushed the “I want one” button. However, my heart fell as I remembered that tonight, as I was shopping on Woot, she was cuddling with my now dead-to-me best-friend.
Woot, please consider the “mail order bride” that I proposed last night. That wedding is coming up, and I really don’t want to recall those announcements (not to mention, forgo the gifts). I’m sure that with time, my wooted wife and I could manage to fall into love-ish. Besides, the $5 shipping is unbeatable. It’s not enough to sit and watch old Julia Roberts movies on my new combo player and pretend that she is mine.
Just to help a little more, here are some proposed qualifications:
- Any language accepted, no language at all would be a perk
- Large . . . bank account
- Able to take care of house (I can cook every once in a while if I HAVE to).
- Between ages of 18-43 (this can be negotiated, depending on size of bank account)
- Okay with my Woot and e-bay habits
- Share a mutual disgust of Mr. Bush
- Not a refurb - that has scary implications - I’m only 23, and far too young to die from disease!
Woot, if you’re out there, please consider my proposal! We would even register through you. I think I’m onto something big here. I know that there’s more to life than being entertained all evening by a six pack (of root-beer of course) and a bug zapper. I think I will go finish off that fifth carton of Ben and Jerry’s (another potential woot product).
Funny, I work in a factory. I have tons of money.I paid cash (Visa check card) for my 61" InFocus WOOT TV, and everything else I buy on here. We’re on overtime & cant make product fast enough. Maybe its a big George Bush conspiracy just to tease us so we spend more money on gas and make him rich (because he gets $1.67 a gallon in a secret funneling scam that NOONE KNOWS ABOUT except Michael Moore)
Silly people and their rubber-stamp pavlovian comments 
actually I found the same on on electrified.com for only 133.00 with 15.00 shipping
so for a total of 148.00 including shipping.
so just letting you know
Though you had a point with everyone going to switch to blueray or HD-DVD players, I disagree with your issue about the DVD recorders not recording at the same quality as digital TV. I disagree with this simply because the DVD recorder lets you CHOOSE what quality you want to record at. You can choose to fit 12 hrs of video on one DVD or you could fit one single hour of video on the DVD. If you do 1 hr or 2 hours of video per DVD that is DEFINITELY recording it at digital TV standards. Maybe it’s not extreme HD-standards, but digital doesn’t mean HD, it’s just good quality Digital, and these DVD recorders definitely do that. I would know, I bought one and have used it a ton, and tried almost all it’s features. These things are a good buy, and they will do as good a quality as anything else. It will record as good as copying another DVD using your computer even if you set it right. The only way that statement is true is if you have the recording quality REALLY low (I wouldn’t recommend setting it any lower then 4 hrs per DVD at the worst or quality is noticably annoying on a huge projector screen). I can do 6 hrs/and not notice any real difference from digital TV on my 27" TV screen though.
NR? …Fantastic idea, sorry for your loss kiddo, and with your soon to be dead best friend eh? …thats just sad.
Between you and me? I have a cement mixer your welcome to borrow. ( When Im upset I do masonry work … its a family stress reduction tradition, hey what can I say? …some folks eat)
So listen, If you have any luck with the powers of Woot and they grant your Mail Order Bride request? see if you can get them to cough up a couple of extra for the rest of us. One that might have picked up one of those projectors from the other day would be wonderful. …Nice large set of Bank Accounts would be great as well
I bought two of these a year ago (full price - over $350 bucks each), BRAND NEW, and both went “Tits Up” on me for a heat sink problem. JVC wanted me to ship them back to them at my expense so they could fix a 30 cent part that a local company could have done, but they refused to allow it.
I have had it with JVC… I also bought two JVC camcorders too (three prior to this BS), and both of them… ditto, same story… JVC has lousy lousy customer service. This woot would only be good if they paid you to take it, say about $200. each…
This is sour grapes from Eugene, Oregon or more commonly thought of - “The Republic of Ujean, Orygun”
this would make a nice gift for someone that has a bunch of home videos that they would like to transfer to DVD. In fact, this will be a really good gift. You could even use it and charge people to transfer their tapes/// it sure beat capturing to the computer, not only does capturing tear up your HD but you cant really use the computer for anything else while your doing it. except maybe wooting.
You’re joking… right? Standard VHS has a resolution of 250 lines, DVD’s have a resolution of 480. Standard VHS stores the video signal in composite form (all of the color and brightness information munged together), DVD stores it in component form (separate luminance and color channels). Learn what you’re talking about before spouting off and sounding like an idiot.
That said, tempted to pick one up for the parents for Xmas, but some of the reliability comments online scare me.
Does anyone know with absolute certainty if this will convert VHS tapes to DVD?