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Title: The 1-button dubbing flaky and video compression inferior
Review: Overall this is a good DVR/VCR combo but it falls short when dubbing large VHS collection to DVDs. If you are dubbing VHS tapes which have a lot of clips or programs recorded on them the unit will sometimes interpret gaps between the clips/program recordings as signal loss or end of tape and prematurely terminate the dubbing. Because of this I could not use it to copy my VHS collection to DVDs. Instead I had to use a 2nd DVR unit. Also the compression ratio and algorithms used are not as good as the ones used by my 2nd DVR (which is a Philips). The Philips has a LP option for DVD+R DL that allows 6 hrs of recording which is perfect for 6hr VHS tapes. With the Sony unit I had to choose between 5 hrs and 7 hrs plus change and the 7 hrs required to dub a 6hr VHS tape produced inferior video quality compared to the Philips DVR.
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