GoVideo DVR5000 DVD-VCR Combo
Highly Recommended!
I held out on purchasing this product because I'd never heard of Go-Video. I did a lot of research and couldn't find anything negative about the product. So several months later, I purchased it.<br />The first nice thing is the space saved by combining the VCR and DVD into one unit. Then, there's the ease of connecting to your TV and stereo. With my other VCR & DVD player, I have to use a lot of Y (F/F-->M) merge cable sections in order to have the VCR and TV go through the stereo/TV. ... With this, the unit handles the switching between DVD/TV/VCR at the touch of a button.<br />Another nice feature of the DVD part of the unit is it remembers where you stopped a DVD. So even if you turn the unit off for the night, the next day you can turn it back on, switch to DVD and hit play to pick up the movie right where you left off. My JVC player won't do this!<br />The VCR side provides a clean picture and it even shows a graphic bar for tracking purposes (while in auto-track or manual-track). I found this helpful for recordings I have kept off an old VCR but now play on the new one. Another \\"kewl\\" feature on the VCR side is the status bar when rewinding/fast-forwarding tape.  And when it comes to rewinding/fast-forwarding, it does it rapidly!  It actually can rewind faster than my stand-alone tape-rewind machine!<br />The unit WILL play MP3 CD's but make sure you have better CD burning software and use better quality disk.  At first the unit refused to play my MP3 CD's but once I upgraded my software, the new CD's played perfectly!<br />Bottom line, I am glad I made this purchase!  In fact, I bought a 2nd unit!