JVC DRMV5S DVD Recorder/VCR Combo
There's got to be something better
My first DRMV5S worked okay for about a month, then I noticed when I recorded to DVD, the image would pixilate (I think that's the word) into little blocks of color within the image (this was July, 2005). I lived with the problem for about six months, as I could still record to VHS and it played DVDs fine, and I was busy. Since I had a warranty plan with Sears, I brought it in for repair after Christmas, it spent two weeks getting serviced, I brought it home, and the remote would no longer change the channel on the DVD recorder. It was stuck on channel 2 and wouldn't work, so I was given a new DRMV5S at the end of January. About a month into having the unit I decided to dub some of my old VHS tapes onto DVD. I was successfully doing this, going onto my second tape,  when I touched the power button, and a charge of static electricity wiped out all audio and the display on the front panel. It's been in Chattanooga for repair for well over two weeks now. So let's see, in the past year or so, the unit worked properly for about 2 months, not an impressive record. JVC tech support wasn't much help, either.