| Awful Waste Of Money |
The DVD side is okay, but the VCR side is very bad. The DVD player is slow, and consistently locks up on the end of the DVD, "A Goofy Movie". However, it played every other DVD we have flawlessly. It doesn't have any of the audio difficulties of the APEX players we had before it. Sometimes when we turn the unit on, it ejects the disc for no reason. Sometimes when we eject the disc, it closes the tray again for no reason. MP3 playback works but when the disc plays MP3, it spins the discs faster and gets much louder than it does for DVD. So, the unit is not very good for listening to music. The device will display JPEG pictures, but they will will not be scaled to fit on the television screen. I have tried small and large pictures and none of them fit. The VCR side has flickering and distortion at the top of every video played. It doesn't matter what recording speed is used. Auto tracking is fairly inaccurate, and even manual tracking adjustment can't fix the flickering and distortion. I am unable to say how well the unit records television because it has no TV tuner, so unless a cable box or video camera is connected, there is no way to record a television show with this device. All of these problems seem like issues that could be fixed with a firmware upgrade, but there doesn't seem to be one. There is no sign of Adaptive Picture Control, and the video is not nearly as good as my previous Sony VCR's. The remote control must be pointed directly at the unit. Unless you can mount a rifle scope on your remote, you would be better off with a different remote. |
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