I see I am not the only one that has that problem ... Christ the money I have spent on VCRs. I could have bought 2 new empegs for that. Take the Sony SLV-625 I have in front of me right now. Was a really expensive bugger. Still works but if you record something with it, you get interference, color going in and out, bad audio etc. It still plays okay and serves as a tuner for my Alpha when I want to capture a TV show but that is it. And this was like their flagship VCR at the time for crying out loud. I had it only 2 weeks when I clued in to the bad recording problem and returned it for warranty repair. It was gone for several weeks, came back and worked only marginally better after that. But it never did work ok. I think I have had like 12 VCRs over as many years. Then I just gave up. After the Sony which was the last one I bought, and I choose that one because I though if I take the more expensive one I will be less likely to deliver bad quality, I decided that was it for me.

On a side note, as it happens I ordered a WinTV-PVR card yesterday. That's a TV card but with built in MPEG1 and MPEG2 encoder allowing you to record directly in MPEG. With a little luck this will be my next VCR. I was thinking of something like the Tivo's and ReplayTV's but I feel it is not yet adjusted to the European market well enough. And I want to be able to stuff my recordings on say a VCD. Which you can do with Tivo and probably also ReplayTV but it's al a litle dubious I gathered sofar.

Cheers,
Hans


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