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Rating:  - Best of both worlds!!!
I've had my DVR5000 for about a week. It is very simple to use and setup. If you have countless VHS tapes and want to enjoy the new DVD medium without a messy look, this is the unit you should get. All the connections are included for whatever type of system you have, even component hookups are included. My unit seems to work flawlessy and having the ability to switch between DVD, VHS and TV internally is a big plus. One feature I really like is the Zoom control (2x and 4x) not found on many DVD's out there. Sensory Science is a relatively small company but seem's to take pride in the products they sell and with the DVR5000 you get the best of both worlds..
Rating:  - Highly Recommended!
I held out on purchasing this product because I'd never heard of Go-Video. I did a lot of research and couldn't find anything negative about the product. So several months later, I purchased it.
The first nice thing is the space saved by combining the VCR and DVD into one unit. Then, there's the ease of connecting to your TV and stereo. With my other VCR & DVD player, I have to use a lot of Y (F/F-->M) merge cable sections in order to have the VCR and TV go through the stereo/TV. ... With this, the unit handles the switching between DVD/TV/VCR at the touch of a button.
Another nice feature of the DVD part of the unit is it remembers where you stopped a DVD. So even if you turn the unit off for the night, the next day you can turn it back on, switch to DVD and hit play to pick up the movie right where you left off. My JVC player won't do this!
The VCR side provides a clean picture and it even shows a graphic bar for tracking purposes (while in auto-track or manual-track). I found this helpful for recordings I have kept off an old VCR but now play on the new one. Another "kewl" feature on the VCR side is the status bar when rewinding/fast-forwarding tape. And when it comes to rewinding/fast-forwarding, it does it rapidly! It actually can rewind faster than my stand-alone tape-rewind machine!
The unit WILL play MP3 CD's but make sure you have better CD burning software and use better quality disk. At first the unit refused to play my MP3 CD's but once I upgraded my software, the new CD's played perfectly!
Bottom line, I am glad I made this purchase! In fact, I bought a 2nd unit!
Rating:  - Beware Macrovision - This will not record most DVD's to VHS
Just a note, checking the Go-Video website description of the DVR5000, found this feature: "Record non-Macrovision encoded DVDs to VHS" This probably means that Macrovision encoded DVD's cannot be copied, and most DVD's have Macrovision copy protection. Hope nobody buys this thinking they will be able to make good VHS copies of their DVD's. Maybe it will work, but probably best to wait until someone that has one tests it out and puts up a review.
Rating: - Great idea and a great DVD player too
This is a nice combination...just don't know what to do with my fairly new VCR now...that has so far performed wonderfully.
I recieved my GO-Video player for Christmas and it is my first DVD player but so far I have not been disappointed, with the one exception of the player to skip on occassion but this is fairly infrequent so it has not really hampered my viewing pleasure. The setup was quite easy as the console basically sets itself up from the info on your TV and the instruction manual is laid out quite nicely if you need to make any changes yourself. The button configuration on the player itself is laid out nicely as well and is not cluttering or confusing. Operation of the DVD player is smooth and quiet.
As for the VCR side it performs just as well and is just as quiet and smooth as its DVD counter-part. The operation of the console from the remote control is easy to figure out and the button configuration is well organized and also giving you the freedom to use as your TV remote. I usually have trouble with console remote controls as they are generally too small for my hands but not so with this remote. Button size and spacing makes it easy to operate for us big handed people.
Overall this is a great system and while not as sleek as a normal DVD player, it is a dual system afterall, it has a great design and looks quite nice (alot better than its older dual-VCR siblings of yester-year). However for its price there are a lot better DVD players I am sure you can get BUT if you are replacing a VCR or have a lot of VHS tapes and wanting to step up to a DVD system without getting rid of all your old VHS tapes then this is the system for you.
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