Title: Not for use in weaker TV reception areas
Product review: The performance of the analog TV tuner in this product was dismal using an antenna: high noise and some of the channels both my VCR and TV could receive weren't stable or watchable. The performance was so bad that I ended up returning the recorder. If you are recording from an analog cable you may be OK, but if you are hoping to record from an antenna be careful. I didn't give the ATSC tuner a real test.Note also that although the recorder has an ATSC (HD) tuner, it downgrades the signal and only records it in SD (i.e. non high def) form.Also the upconverting of analog signals to 1080i is problematic - there are no options to select whether you want the signal zoomed or kept at its existing size. So if there are (say) subtitles near the bottom of the picture you may not be able to see them.Nice features: shame about the analog off-air picture.
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