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JVC Super VHS VCR – HRS5902| Manufacturer: | Jvc | | List price: | $179.99 |
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| JVC Super VHS VCR – HRS5902 |
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Full-featured VCR's like this are hard to come by |
The VHS VCR is a dying breed. However, the VCR can record broadcast shows with "copy protection signals" that a DVD recorder cannot, so there will be a place for VCR's in the years ro come. Unfortunately, the only VCRs available at mass retailers like WalMart and Best Buy are low-end models lacking features like VCR Plus. JVC invented the VHS format, so they will likely be the one company to see the format to its end.
The HR-S5902U is a loaded editing VCR with a number of high-end features like VCR Plus, jog/shuttle control, and flying erase head. It's one of the few high-end VCRs on Amazon that isn't a pro model, and one of the few S-VHS models. Excellent picture quality, even on old VHS tapes. I haven't tried S-VHS yet, but even those tapes are hard to come by. Unfortunately, it comes with the same 90 day labor/1 year parts warranty that all those low-end VCRs come with, so I hope that premium model won't suffer from "91 day syndrome", where the thing goes bad after the labor warranty expires. I will update this review as necessary. |
| JVC Super VHS VCR – HRS5902 - Jvc | |
Always been a s-vhs fan & am pleased with this one. |
Many TV newsrooms use super VHS, in their cameras, or for editing & dubbing in the studio... quickly, on the fly.
Flaw, bug, & software free, fool-proof analog video almost as good as DVD, with S-video & multiple inputs & outputs that would make any videophile drool. The more sophisticated a machine becomes, the more sophisticated a user will have to be happy with it. Great pic, great sound, & fantastic for quick editing on the fly... maybe to later be burned on a DVD.
The tuner gets a better pic, than my sony wega's tuner. If you get a bad channel 9, one of you're RF cords may be broken inside, at the end, or it not connected properly. Don't blame JVC. I own this & 3 other JVC s-vhs machines. The tuner is better than any equipment I'm seen... even on channel 9. But really, if you don't have a cable box or satellite, don't buy this machine, it's capable of much more than your system is capable of. If you don't know what a s-video connector is for & why you need it, these machines are too good for what you're capable of. AMF if you don't notice a startling difference in the picture quality compared to ordinary VHS, you're TV or how you got it hooked up isn't good enough.
But these machines also play back ordinary VHS tapes with better quality than ANY other machine. There are pic/filter settings to clean up extra crummy tapes too.
This particular machine I purchased as a back-up & extra. I was expecting it to be the quality of some of their cheapest s-vhs machines. To my surprise the machine works very well & the pic is excellent for s-vhs at this price range.
One minor problem noted. The oscillator that generates the voltage for the fluorecent display generates interference to my Akai DVD burner it's setting on, & my other JCV s-vhs machine I have stacked ontop of it (on top of that I have my Directv TVO box). So with 4 units stacked together some interference came from this machine's fluorecent circuits. I found if I slid it 1" back from the burner, & the other machine ontop of it 1" back, all the interference disappeared. But now they aren't flush with each other. Someday I'll try stacking them differently. Beside them I have a JVC DVD player, Terapin VCD/CD burner, & another JVC s-vhs deck stacked together. Between the 2 stacks is 2 5" LCD monitors (for dubbing/cueing).
Anywho, it's not unusual to have stacked machines interfere with each other. But it's the first time it ever happened with a JVC unit. Some TVs will even interfere with some machines set on top of them. It's not a defect but rather an occasional coincedence that one machine is emitting a certain frequency close to a frequency that another machine is particularly sensitive to. Moving the units a little or the wires behind them usually will clear it up.
Update: I've read S-VHS tapes are harder to come by in another review. These machines use ordinary VHS tapes, you don't need super-vhs tapes for them, but they should be good tapes. My best pix on the come from ordinary t-120 & t-160 memorex tapes I buy in 10-packs real cheap. DVD burners & blank DVDs are getting cheap but the lasers & drives wear out after your 100th to 500th disk. 10 years after your fifth DVD burner has bit the dust your super-vhs machine will still be going strong. I know from experience, I'm a tech, I work on stuff like this all the time. My first 10 year old super-vhs machine is still running like new after extremely heavy use & conditions. It's been banged around overstacked, & used in hot environments that would kill most electronic equipment. It's never been opened or repaired. The newer cheaper s-vhs models only had minor negligible problems, & are still many times better than any ordinary vhs machine.
BTW, I don't work for JVC. |
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JVC HRS 5902 U Hi-Fi VCR |
I purchased this VCR on recommendation when my Sony SLV N900 performed like a piece of junk.
I have had this JVC VCR for 2 weeks and I am very disappointed with it for the following reasons:
1.- The Remote Control does NOT have an "EJECT" button nor does it have Hi-Fi receiver "Volume" conrtol capability(both, of which, are on my Sony VCR remote control.
2.- For some reason, Channel 9 is weak and severely snowy but, JVC Corp. Consumer Service can not help correct the problem or will not!
The reason for purchasing the JVC VCR was the fact that the remote control would not activate my Sony VCR. A big problem when using 2 Sony VCRs at the same time.
Munufacturers of VCRs seem to be making their VCRs cheaper in quality to force consumers to buy their expensive DVRs,etc. Too bad that the F.C.C. doesn't step in to stop this kind of abuse! |
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