JVC HR-XVC1U DVD-VCR Combo
Great DVD, mediocre VCR
This is a fine unit for DVD playback, and has a lot of great features.  But my experience with the VCR side left a lot to be desired.  The machine has been saddled with a sub-par tuner which makes for noisy, color smeared VHS recordings, and its playback of factory pre-records isn't all that great either (but I will say that EP recordings don't fall off very much quality wise from SP, although the frequency response at both speeds is pretty atrocious). JVC brags about how it's the inventor of VHS. . . shame they couldn't do better here.