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Average Ratings
Value for Money6/10
Reviewer Rating6/10
Overall Rating7.3/10 Based on 3 ratings
0% Recommended0 out of 2 Reviews

Review of JVC DRMV1

By skippit Rank: Corporal on 6th Jan 2005

skippit's Ratings
Time DVD Recorder Owned1 - 6 Months
Image Quality10/10
Sound Quality10/10
Features8/10
Ease of Use7/10
Value for money7/10
Overall value7/10
no skippit's recommendation

Good Points

VHS recorder & DVD recorder in one unit.
Twin tuners enable recording of different channels to DVD and VHS tape simultaneously.
DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and DVD-R recording formats.
Can read photo disk JPEG images.

Bad Points

Major fault with overheating.
On-screen menu system appears clumsy.
Printing errors in the user guide.

General Comments

In my opinion this was too quick to the market - The JVC DRM-V1 had faults with overheating, with disks getting hot when reading or writing. The overheating eventually results in a "LOADING" message which shuts the machine down causing corruption to disks currently being written to. A recording session of no more than 40 minutes caused this on five occasions. My retailer reported several units being sent back with this fault. I had the unit repaired (a one-off fix they promised) and the same fault came back days later. The on-screen menu system appears clumsy to me and I found navigation to the function I required was a bit hit and miss. The user guide instructions for recording to DVD have printing errors (you get nowhere if you follow them).

On the positive side, the tape player has good image quality and dubbing from tape to DVD (when permitted) was no problem. The hand control is very easy to use, with easy to see button text and good sized buttons (unlike the Toshiba D-VR3 I have now). If you like being bathed in a bright blue neon light then you'll like this unit.

I hope they get the overheating and user guide problem fixed, because the features make this a worthy purchase (otherwise, I would have said YES to recommend to a friend).

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1 Comment on Review by skippit for JVC DRMV1

  1. alan sellers on 19th May 2008

    Have the same flashing Loading Problem in the display, was repaired happened again, unit replace happened again. JVC dont want to know even though their technical admitted they know they have a manufacturing fault.



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