Apex DRX9000 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder
GOOD for ANT Recording, REALLY BAD for VHS conversion
I bought this unit...with hopes of having a faster way of converting home movies to DVD faster than it would take using a computer capture card and program and waiting for it to render the entire DVD movie.<br />The manual was confusing to figure out how to setup the player/recorder and once I got my vcr to send a signal to the DVD recorder it ended up looking like a cable box signal when it's scrambled.  The picture quality wasn't quite as bad as that but it certainly jumped around and flickered in and out.  Definitely not something people wanna watch.  The picture input was not stable at all coming from a vcr and I do not mean copyrighted materials, but personal home movies.  However its ability to take antenna signals and save them to DVD was great.  I had no quams about that part.<br />The user-interface was quite confusing.  One thing I did NOT like about recording to DVD on this machine was that there is no way of telling the recorder to start a new dvd chapter as you're recording. You have to hit stop recording and then start again, which does not make for a seamless footage dvd...