JVC JVC DR-MX1S DVD Recorder (Progressive Scan, 80GB Hard Drive)

Reviewed by: SouthernOaks

Strengths: I love the all-in-one nature of this piece of equipment.

Weaknesses: The manual, as spoken about by others is clunky at best. The door on the front is annoying, but not a total pain.The hardest part was finding a vendor for this product!

Overall: I still need to keep the owners manual under the remote to do things like dub a DVD from a Camcorder. The "yellow bricks" are not necessarily in "as you'd use them" order for any of the functions, and getting to the commands isn't clearly stated. There is no clear statement either about what format DVD will read on a computer (with WinDV) or other set top DVD player when finalized. Kind of hit and miss on that, but I'm learning my way around it - and with any technology, coasters happen! All in all, the equipment wasn't a total pain to set up, the DV input and RCA inputs on the front are nice when transferring from MiniDV to the DVD. But there is NO INTUITION INVOLVED with how this puppy works. Read, do, Repeat. It'll sink in eventually. (Oh yeah, Remember your mistakes, or write them down, so you limit your coaster collection - unless you'll only be playing back to the same one you burned on, in that case, it doesn't really matter!)