Sylvania ZV450SL8 Dual DVD / VCR Recorder with Digital Tuner
SYLVANIA ZV450SL8 DVD Recorder/VCR combination lets you copy VHS tapes to DVD and DVD to VHS tapes at the touch of a button. Record your favorite television shows and treasured home videos to either videocassette or DVD-R/RW discs. And with a Progressive Scan video output, you can be sure that you can enjoy them in clear, sharp, lifelike picture quality every time. PROGRESSIVE SCAN:
Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. DVD-R/RW RECORDING:
Record your favorite television shows and treasured home videos to either videocassette or DVD-R / DVD-RW discs. PLAYABLE DISC:
This DVD player plays DVD Video, DVD-R/RW, video and audio CD, CD-R/RW, MP3, JPEG and Kodak Picture CD. BUILT-IN ATSC TUNER:
Built-in ATSC tuner means it can receive Digital TV broadcasts without a separate set-top box. (SD Quality output) 4 HEAD AND HI-FI STEREO SOUND:
The 4-head VCR's Hi-Fi stereo recording system offers excellent sound quality, with a high dynamic range, wide frequency response from 20 Hz to 20 kHz. A/V CABLE CONNECTIONS:
Inputs and outputs include front and rear stereo audio/video and an RF input/output for the VCR, and, for the DVD player, component-video, S-video, and composite-video outputs.
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Sylvania ZV450SL8 Dual DVD / VCR Recorder with Digital Tuner Reviews
Now after three months it's failing to finalize DVDs making the entire DVD unaccessible even on this machine. My last analog tuner VCR/DVD combo unit lasted for two years after recording hundreds of DVDs before showing DVD Error messages. That is, with the unit turned off the audio is much louder. Most of the buttons are tiny and the same size including the play, record, stop and pause. This unit started showing DVD error messages after one month. In addition, the audio pass through volume is only a fraction of the volume on the TV with the unit turned on.
At first it would occasionally show DVD error messages in the middle of a recording and stop recording. I'm giving this one star only because you can't give it a zero. I'll never buy another Sylvania product again. That recording was then rendered unaccessible while still taking up space on the DVD. Also, the remote is a poor design.
Sirs:. John. We received a replacement and it is doing the same thing. I have sent E-mails to you and haven't received any info as yet. I had both units checked and they say something wrong or it would stay on. We received the product and it would not stay turned on. I would like to have my money back or at least have a unit that would stay turned on long enough to see if it would work.
VHS works fine (who cares). They were both DVD brand finickyworking only with Maxell discs. On both machines, this started out as an occasional problem, and then kicked into high gear, where nothing could be recorded on DVD. It's a good idea and well worth the investment, because: a) the machine WILL break, and b) you can bet on it. Now, no brand works.
We record a lot, and probably ran 300 discs through the last one. With both, we started getting DVD disc error messages "Cannot record on this disc." Of course, we got the message AFTER "recording" a program, so: a) we wasted our time, b} we lost the recording.
First one lasted seven months, second one lasted ten months. Another good investment.
We keep all our machines meticulously clean and run a cleaning disc once a week. Oh, and we now buy only Verbatim brand discs.
Smartest thing we did was to invest an extra twenty bucks for an extended warranty (this at a Fred Meyer store). The extended warranty is essentially a side bet that you believe the machine WILL die.
We've had two of these recorders in a row.
Please don't offer anything without a digital tuner if it's a VCR or a TV set on Amazon. These units are worthy only for donating to Goodwill.
What's happening with quality control. After 4 months and a cost of $200 I have to pay $45 to repair a machine that should work for years without a problem. I have owned this unit for 4 months. Previously I owned a cheap DVD recorder/VCR player combo ($60.00) and it lasted for a number of years. I am really disappointed with this item.
The warranty period is one year for parts and 90 days for labor. They agreed to pick up the machine for repair at their cost but I have to send them $45.00 with the product to cover the labor charge. I turned on the power and it reluctantly inserted itself. I tried to rewind and it did the same thing. I attempted to record a program and after 5 or 10 seconds the machine stopped and turned itself off.
Then strange things began happening. Anyone interested in purchasing the DVD/VCR should reconsider. I removed the cassette and attempted to reinsert it into the machine and it wouldn't go in. I contacted customer service and was on hold between 10 and 15 minutes. Product worked fine up until now.
I began fast forwarding the VHS tape and after a few seconds the VCR stopped and shut down.
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