Go Video VR2940 DVD Recorder/VCR Combo

by Go Video

Product Details

• Item Weight: 13.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 17 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0006GWIJO
• Item model number: VR 2940
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,377 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Whether you're recording or playing back, GoVideo's VR2940 dual-format DVD recorder and VCR has convenience written all over it. The deck is capable of copying VHS tapes to DVD and DVDs to VHS at the touch of a button (except where prohibited by copy-protection technology). For camcorder owners, transferring home movies to DVD has never been easier. A front-panel IEEE 1394 DV input accepts feeds from digital camcorders for easy recording to DVD and for playback on your TV. You get 8-event, 1-month timer recording and you can choose whether to record to tape or disc for each program item.

Record your favorite television shows and treasured home videos to high-quality, long-lasting DVD+R (write-once) and DVD+RW (rewriteable) discs. The recorder's built-in NTSC TV tuner and onscreen user interface permits up to eight timer recordings over a single month, with five recording speeds providing between 1 and 6 hours of content on each 4.7 GB DVD. DVD+RW media require no finalizing--you can record, eject, and play them with minimal fuss, thanks to "background formatting." This feature, which lowers total burning time, is an advantage over the "dash" formats. Other DVD+RW advantages include on-disc content editing and multisession writing.

When recording, the unit automatically creates a new disc title for every new recording. You can then add chapters to these recordings manually or have them automatically inserted at 5-minute intervals.

DoMiNoFX helps you create better-looking DVDs by digitally improving the input signal using 3 patented processes: TrueScan Pro, TrueView Pro, and PerfectView Pro. A technology called CleanCopy offers one-touch improvement and archiving of your VHS tapes to long-lasting DVDs. CleanCopy automatically enhances picture and sound quality for keeping your memories vivid.

The VR2940 is a first-rate DVD player, too. Movie fans will love GoVideo's AutoPlay DVD feature, which automatically skips ads, movie trailers, and disc menus, jumping right to the start of the main attraction. Simply place the disc in the tray, press the play key, and the movie will start without interruption. YourDVD, another GoVideo exclusive, simplifies your DVD player use by permanently storing the set-up preferences that--on most DVD players--need to be checked or unchecked every time you load a new DVD.

Other versatile playback features include progressive-scan video outputs and support MP3, JPEG, and Kodak Picture CDs. A variety of video and audio inputs--including front-panel connections for fast, temporary hookups--grant connection to virtually all televisions and home theater components.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the VR2940's DVD player stands ready to deliver the full playback potential of your DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

And, unlike all other DVD/VCR combination products, the VR2940 will connect to your television and deliver DVD or VHS signals using any of its available video connections, including S-video and component-/progressive-scan video outputs. Now you can view both DVD and VHS content without having to change connections or switch TV inputs.

To help you navigate the transition from VCR to DVD recording, GoVideo's "white-glove customer care" includes free telephone assistance in making your first recording, should you need it.

What's in the Box
DVD player/recorder, a blank DVD+RW disc, a remote control, remote batteries, an RF coaxial audio/video cable (3 feet), a stereo analog audio/composite-video interconnect (3 feet), and a user's manual.

Product Description

DVD Recorder & VCR combination in one unit

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

95 of 96 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great item when it worked, February 22, 2005

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bigfansue "bigfansue" (Muttontown, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Go Video VR2940 DVD Recorder/VCR Combo (Electronics)

I was so pleased with this recorder the first week I had it till it started to freeze when shutting it off. It was user friendly and quality of picture and sound was great. I could live with the freezing when shutting it off but it started freezing when converting a tape to a DVD and at the end making the DVD useless after spending the hours converting it. It just got worse and worse so I was wasting time and money on the blank DVDs. White glove customer service is a joke. I've been calling for weeks and they claim an overload of calls to call back and when I did finally get a real person they couldn't help. Unfortunately my last alternative was to send it back for a refund to Amazon. I'm now afraid to exchange or purchase another GoVideo product due to this bad experience with them.
However, I will say I never once had a problem with Amazon. They are great as far as prices and exchanges and customer service.

73 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Customer support is awful!, February 16, 2005

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Clay Ballman "alligator77" (TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Go Video VR2940 DVD Recorder/VCR Combo (Electronics)

Received dvd recorder, however it did not work. Over a period of three weeks, I sent six e-mails to GOVIDEO customer service. Received one response that provided general answers to common problems. This did not help. Cannot contact a "live" person at customer service by telephone -- instead you recieve a recording of the same general answers to common problems.

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible Machine, Ripoff Company. Avoid at all costs., July 27, 2005

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M. Sponhour "scbuck" (columbia, s.c.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Go Video VR2940 DVD Recorder/VCR Combo (Electronics)

Beware of Go Video at all costs. Here is their repair policy, which is not fully spelled out in the manual or on their website:

If it breaks after 90 days, you must pay $90 in labor up front AND pay to ship it to them in Arizona, for a $300 machine. When do you find this out? When you call them (after endless delays) to let them know the thing broke. Even if it broke during the 90 days "full warranty" you must still pay to ship it on your own to Arizona.

This is for a machine that has been buggy at best, prone to constantly locking up. They act like they are doing you a favor to charge you a fortune to fix the machine. Furthermore what they do is keep your old machine and send you a refurbished one in the mail after several weeks. I can't see trusting their repair folks considering their customer service staff is dim witted, impossible to get on the phone and unable to do anyting but repeat the "company policy." They are empowered to do nohting.

Based on my experience, I am not giving these fools another dime of my money. I have a huge stack of tapes to convert and had hopes that this machine would do it. Unfortunatley, I am now out $300 bucks and this company could care less.