Hello. Looking for any suggestions on a vcr. Cheapest @ Wal-mart is 40-50...thanks!

What type of quality are you looking for? If you're not picky you could probably pick something up in the classifieds dirt cheap.

[Vizzini]Inconceivable![/Vizzini] DVD players are cheaper than VCRs? I would try Costco, Kmart or your local OddLot, Liquidator surplus inventory type store. Unless you want something of quality.

What's a vcr?

Yep. VCR's have more moving parts than DVD players, so they're going to cost more. Hard to believe, isn't it?

I thought it was odd too that they were more expensive than dvd players. I havn't had a vcr since like 98, but I'm transferring videos/home movies/sport games to my computer for dvd and need a vcr to input.
Thanks!

If you're interested, I have a used Samsung DVD-V1000 (DVD/VCR combo) available for $30 shipped within the U.S. (complete with manual and remote).

The VCR portion of the unit works flawlessly (and is barely used). The DVD portion 'works' but is very tempermental. As mentioned in many reviews, the unit has a flaw where the DVD picture will freeze at times, and require you to power the unit down and restart. In my experience, this usually happens after the first 20 minutes or so, then you have to power down for 2, then (usually) you're fine. But there are also times when it takes 5+ restarts to get the DVD going. Pretty frustrating.

Details/specs/reviews are here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...onics&n=507846

Anyway, you obviously wouldn't want this as a DVD player (unless you're handy and can get it working properly)... but it would probably be great for your video transfer purposes. If you want it, just shoot me an e-mail...

Buy one on ebay. It was cheaper for me to get a good used VCR with S-Video than it was to buy a S-Video converter at Radio Shack.

this is the best VCR we've ever owned. Sony SLV-N700
don't remember the cost though

Thanks bboisvert!
Let me know when u get payment.

could anyone tell me how good is this vcr,

http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail.asp?dpno=214829

it is refurbished by sony, does it matter.

forget it i just bought the Sony SLV-N750 refurbushed at ubid for $47.

Ha! I still use a bank of VCRs to record stuff off the air for viewing later. The one feature that got me hooked was the commercial advance feature that recognizes the fade to black before a commercial and then marks the commercials so that the unit can skip past them on playback. I didn't even know that that feature existed until I bought a new VCR about five years back and it was like magic when it just skipped the commercials. Much faster than reaching for the remote and fast forwarding past them or guessing how many 1 minute [or 30 second] skips to hit like some lesser VCRs have.

I understand that an early TiVo unit also had the same feature but that they bowed to the networks screams over loosing their revenue if everyone used the feature and dropped it.

There aren't any current VCRs with commercial advance being made but, whenever I see one on closeout that has that feature I'll buy it for a backup.

Do any of the PVR options have the feature?

It's actually a patented algorythm on a chip.

Actualy, that was replayTV. A feature called "Comerical skip" and it was removed for basicly the reasons you state above.

Tivo still has normal fastforward (up to 60x) but also lets you 30 second skip (aka, jump through teh comercials in a few button clicks).

-Mike

(and yes, I made it through this whole post without mocking you for using VCR in a world of PVRs)