GoVideo DV1130 DVD-VCR Combo
Review for the GoVideo DV1140
I purchased the DV 1140 a few months back for $79.00 to replace my old DVD player that went out on me.  I have to say that as a DVD player it should only be looked at as a temporary one until you can get a better one.  It's just a basic DVD player with no real features to it at all.  It can't even play Video CDs.  When I looked on the box it says it plays CD-R, CD-RW et al so I assumed it will play my movies that I burned to CD-R but it only mean audio files like mp3s.  It also said it played WMAs but once again don't expect it to be videos.  Just certain audios.  My old DVD player was only $30.00 and it played practially everything!  Why this one cost more and doesn't is beyond me.<br /><br />Now for the VCR section.  When I picked this DVD/VCR combo up I gave my old JVC VCR to my mother and I have to say I miss it!  Since they can't possibly have too much stuff in the DVD part of the player that they can't make room to improve the VCR section I have to come to the conclusion that they just didn't care that their VCR is of poor quality.  The picture isn't all that good and the sound before the Hi-Fi kick in is annoying!  With my old VCR (Hi-fi) I can just pop in a tape and everyting will play perfectly.  With this player you MUST play the tape for a good few seconds before the annoying grainy noise will stop and the sound gets clearer.  I tried to take it off of Hi-fi to normal mode to stop that from happening but all it does is stay on the grainy noise for good.  Also everything you record to video will go thru the same thing when you replay it back.<br /><br />The player tries to hype up it's ability to record DVDs to Tape and watching DVDs as you record to tape but I haven't used those features yet and I pretty much consider that to be useless.  Why would I want to record a DVD to tape? A VideoCD to tape I would understand but a DVD?  Plus most DVDs are copy protected anyway.  But then again I haven't tested out this feature yet so I don't know.<br /><br />Overall I would say save your money and really hunt for a DVD player that's worth your money.  Unless you want to experience what DVD players and VCRs were like before they made better ones.<br /><br />I give it two stars: One for actually playing DVDs and another star for it actually playing Videos...better yet the VCR only gets half a star.>Overall I would say save your money and really hunt for a DVD player that's worth your money.  Unless you want to experience what DVD players and VCRs were like before they made better ones. <br /> <br />I give it two stars: One for actually playing DVDs and another star for it actually playing Videos...better yet the VCR only gets half a star. <br /> <br />