Go Video VR3840 Combo DVD Recorder and Hi-Fi VCR

by GoVideo

Product Details

Product Manual [8.58mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 17 x 14 x 3 inches ; 16 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 18 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00099DWUM
• Item model number: VR3840
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,954 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 7, 2005

Product Description

Archive home movies, record your favorite television programs, and copy your VCR tapes onto high-quality DVD discs at the touch of a button.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Having a Great Time with this little unit, August 28, 2005

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D. L. Hall (Eureka, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Go Video VR3840 Combo DVD Recorder and Hi-Fi VCR (Electronics)

This is my first DVD recorder unit, and I was expecting it to be complicated and difficult to use, but set up was a breeze, and in the first day I was happily converting my VHS collection of movies that I'd taped over the years onto DVD. I'd read enough reviews to suggest that the prudent way to do it would be to use the included dvd RW to dub the movie from the VHS tape to the DVD RW, then take it in to my computer for reauthoring with an editing program, that way I could remove commercials easily, and get rid of the menu. Before I figured this out (it took a day or so) I was unhappy because I didn't like the automatic menuing feature. My objective was always to put one movie on each DVD, so menus seemed a waste of space.

Now that I have my process refined I am just happily taking my videos and transferring them.

One thing that impresses me about this unit is that it appears to correct the image and remove some of the noise in the conversion process. I'd read about this on the company web site, but seeing it in action impressed me. The quality of a DVD taken from a video is quite good, even better on those movies where I'd put one movie on a video by itself. If you've got six hours of video on your tape, you can expect a little less quality.

On a few occasions, I've captured directly from the tuner onto the DVD. In these, the quality is magnificent.

All things considered, I think this is a well thought out and enjoyable unit.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Support Tells You the Problem is Bad DVD Blanks, August 28, 2005

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Faddle "Steven" (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Go Video VR3840 Combo DVD Recorder and Hi-Fi VCR (Electronics)

Well, right from the get-go I started having a little problem with the DVD recorder. A few disks did not record properly. I called Support. Support told me they had some issues with the quality of the DVD media made by a certain corporation. I changed DVD media to 'M......'. About 60% of the disks came out well. That's 4 out of 10 that are coasters. I still believed support, thinking that in every batch the DVD manufacturer is going to have some bad disks that sneaked through quality control. I cleaned the unit using a canister of compressed air, like Electronic Technicians use. My wife got me 200 disks from Costco made by TDK (Costco is where I bought the VR3845). The first 5 disks came out OK, I thought. I decided to check them all the way through, so I skipped ahead at 5m intervals. At 15m on one, a freeze in the video. At 40m on the next, freezes and skips & lost audio. Now I wonder how many of my 'successful' burns had skips? A friend gave me 6 hours of his pianist son on VHS to copy for him. I thought the burn was successful since I didn't watch the whole thing. A father does watch the whole thing. He reported skips and freezes (mostly freezes). I had him log the times. I checked the parts of the DVD he said froze and the same thing happened on the VR3845. I tried DVDing some old TV shows from the TV feed. Several freezes and it's getting worse. To top it off, my warranty just ran out. Just over three months and I have another piece of electronic junk in the cabinet and I'm out $240. Don't buy this. Support will try to convince you that you bought bad media blanks. You buy into that and the warranty will run out on you before you realize that it's the machine.

Recommended
No

Amount Paid (US$): 240

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice little unit so far, June 16, 2005

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Marvin Maldonado "Tech/Music fan" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Go Video VR3840 Combo DVD Recorder and Hi-Fi VCR (Electronics)

This is a solid unit, not cheaply built. I have tested recording to DVD from VHS, Cable, Video In. Excellent image, except in the lowest quality setting, where you start to see pixelation. Very intuitive, i hardly used the manual.