Customer Reviews

Funai FDRV90E Dual-Deck DVD/VHS Player/Recorder

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I purchased this rare, limited-edition Funai FDRV90E Dual-Deck DVD/VHS Player/Recorder from Amazon to match with the Funai 20" F20LCTE LCD television. This Funai FDRV90E is not sold at stores anywhere. Funai may be an unknown brand to many people, but Funai is actually the parent name of the Emerson, Sylvania, and Symphonic brands. I burned ten DVDs so far with no problems at all after three months. Great picture quality and comes with a 10 hour DVD recording feature. This one is very similar to the Sylvania, except that the Funai adds a better remote, better styling, VCR Plus, and Spatializer surround mode.

Funai FDRV90E Dual-Deck DVD/VHS Player/Recorder

I purchased the dual-deck about a month ago for approx. $100.00. I wasn't sure if it would be a decent product for a price this cheap. It's used on an occassional to moderate basis. So far it seems good. The picture quality is good. Has one touch recording from VCR to DVD as well as DVD to VCR. I have not used the one touch recording yet.. only recorded from TV to DVD. The quality of recording in the 4 hour or two hour modes is good.. any modes more than 4 hours loses a lot of the quality. ONE THING TO BE CAREFUL OF IS THAT THIS MACHINE ONLY RECORDS ON DVD'S THAT ARE A MAXIMUM OF 8x.. so you may have to order these off the internet since the stores all carry 16x which will not work with this deck. If you buy the DVD-RW then I believe 8x can be found anywhere. Hookups were simple and helped eliminate the issues of having both a DVD and VCR. I hope it holds up since it seems to be a pretty decent deck for the money.

I love the unit I purchased. I have to warn people, however, that this unit is serious about accepting only 8X blank DVDs to record on. Don't bother trying the common 16X kind that are easily available in stores--they will not work on this unit no matter what brand you buy. The 8X kind is hard to find; I have only been able to find them on the Internet. The manual fails to state this fact about needing to buy the 8X type only. I agree that the remote is hard to read and that the lettering is small, not bold enough to stand out as it should. A minor annoyance but not critical to the functioning of the machine itself.

The machine works well - while the remote control is difficult to read - to long and to many buttons...

I have a very similar model with the Magnavox name but the warranty/maker is Funai. I LOVE recording with it - and I have put all home videos on DVD's and made copies of them for the kids . . .BUT the manual is complicated, the customer service (phone and email) is horrible and slow (30 minutes on hold - had called other times and had to hang up before call was answered) and after 4 months of use (1 month after 90 day warranty is up) it has to go to the shop! I feel a company that builds and sells equipment for this much money should back it up more than 90 days!

Have had this unit for 4 months and it has been in the shop for the second time. So far I would not recomend this unit

After "searching" many "sites" the past 30 days::AND--The "standard" VHS//VCR recorder is NOW a "dinosauer"---This is my "choice"--Wal_Mart?? Joke--Says--ON/order//"e-mail" us---That was 45 days ago--still "waiting" for "walMarts" "e-mail//availability area---