JVC HRS3912U VCR, Silver
Pointless reviews
I'm simply shopping around for a VCR so I can transfer old tapes onto DVD. It's funny reading these reviews because all the negative ones seem to be about (a) VCR's being made out of plastic (b) bad customer service, or (c) picture quality. <br /> <br />First off, it's 2006. What consumer level electronic piece of equipment is not made of plastic? I mean, are you wanting some old 25 pound steel beast from 1985? Come on, even our car bodies are made of plastic these days - deal with it. It's economical. Remember that steel beast cost 400 bucks back in the day. <br /> <br />Everyone has had bad customer service issues before, it has nothing really to do with the product. <br /> <br />VHS picture quality sucks, you can't deny it. It makes my stomach churn - absolutely disgusting. A fuzzy, analog mess of 240 lines of resolution - 420 at best for \\"Super\\" VHS. Yuck. The benchmark these days is SD digital cable or satellite quality and some of us are enjoying the quality of 720p/1080i/1080p HDTVs (some believe that they have HDTV because they got suckered into buying a widescreen EDTV, or even worse, some crappy flat screen LCD with 640*480 resolution). Anyway, don't expect much from your tape of Back to the Future or Top Gun. <br /> <br />And to whoever says \\"what is the advantage of DVD over VHS\\", you're giving me a huge headache. That statement simply boggles the mind. That statement leaves me speachless. And I will leave it at that because I know if I list every single technical reason why DVD surpasses VHS it won't make a difference in your mind. And that bothers me! Argh!! Woo-sah.... <br /> <br />Have a great day! :)