Posted by Deke on 02/07/06 05:44

"William A. T. Clark" <clark.31@nospamosu.edu> wrote in message
news:clark.31-C47994.14313906022006@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu...
> I happened to be unlucky enough to be given a JVC DR-MV1S DVD/VCR
> recorder as a Christmas present a little over a year ago. The thing has
> never worked well; when you could figure out the Byzantine manual, it
> still didn't seem to function properly. Finally, and before the warranty
> ran out, I returned it to JVC In Aurora, IL to be fixed. At the time
> there were two issues (that I could find, at least). One, I could not
> get a signal to the DVD recorder, other than by dubbing from a tape in
> the VCR side, and two, it refused to recognize DVD-RW disks, even though
> it ha done so for several months.
>
> I sent it back in mid-December with a note outlining the two problems.
> It came back "fixed" ten days later. At least, I thought so. It turned
> out it still would not recognize a DVD-RW disk, giving the dreaded "disc
> error" message. So I called JVC again (another story in itself). The
> representative was very helpful when I finally reached him, and said
> they would send me a UPS mailer to return it to them in Aurora. I did
> this three weeks ago. Since that time, all I see on their repair site is
> that it is "waiting for parts". I would far rather have my original
> outlay back, and buy a properly functional DVD/VCR, but just to have
> this thing sitting in the repair facility with nothing happening is
> ridiculous. Oh, yes, and if you e-mail the contact address you finally
> find - they just don't bother to answer anyway.
>
> All I can say is to all readers of this ng - 1) stay away from JVC
> products until they deal with shoddy design and manufacture, and 2)
> their service is as bad as their manufacturing. Never again - no JVC
> ever in my house.
>
> William Clark

Sorry about your experience, but my JVC DR-MV1s has transferred a ton of VHS
tapes to DVD, and has been used almost daily for recording on DVD-RW, as
back-up for my
DVR, and its NEVER made a coaster. Its also made more than a few DVD-R
copies of
D-VHS tapes, recorded on my 7 year old JVC HM-DSR100 satellite reciever.
I've also transfered some S-VHS tapes
from my JVC HR-S3900 S-VHS machine to DVD-R. Some of those were made as
far back as the late 80's, on a Zenith S-VHS machine, made by JVC, which
still works, but has an incredibly slow FF and RW, compared to machines made
today.
My point is, the first production runs of the DR-MV1s seem to have had some
software problems.
But dont condemn a company, because you have a problem with JUST ONE of
their products. At least they are trying to repair your machine, and trust
me, replacement parts for common failure parts can be hard to come by. I
have NEVER had a problem with any of my JVC products.
JVC still holds the patents for the VHS video recording system. Every
company that has ever made a VHS tape machine of any kind, has paid JVC a
royalty.
So give JVC some slack. Go look at one of the JVC D-ILA
HD televisions, compare it with anything else on the market, and you'll see
that JVC still makes some incredible products.
Just my two cents.

Peace
Deke

[Back to original message]