As I watched the smoke coming out of the back of my VCR, I suggested to hubby that maybe now was the time to be looking to buy a brand new one. As he fetched the fire extinguisher, he was inclined to agree! We'd had our VCR for many years, and it had been fading fast over the last few weeks. Ours was years old, very erratic and just downright unreliable! And now it was smoking....nuff said! We decided we wouldn’t spend a lot of cash on an all singing all dancing machine, packed with the latest hi-tech gadgets, as neither of us are bright enough to understand how to use them! So, we decided we wanted something modern, inexpensive, easy to use, ...  Read the complete review

My Sanyo video recorder, which I purchased new has an annoying habbit of de-tuning itself for no apparent reason. Many a time I have set it up to Video a program, pressed record and gone out. I come back, check the tape and lo and behold, I have table with 2 hours of crappy scribbles on it. It is a totaly useless video recorder. So I just used it for watching videos, but last month it just stopped working. No fuses have blown, it has power going into it but nothing is happening. This I can only put down to it being rubbish. And because it's busted I can't even stick an ad for it in Admart and pretend it' stolen. LIFE IS SO UNFAIR SOMETIMES. The Sanyo ...  Read the complete review

The listed video is actually the VHR290, my sanyo is VHR297. The 297 is a very special video recorder,and if I am correct it is not widely available, you can buy it but need to order it. So What makes it so special? Long/short play videoplus memory access auto record resetting features clock time date remote control easy access The most unique feature about this video recorder is It is also a caption reader, and it will record the subtitles on any subtitled programme you tape. For those who do not understand, when you hire/buy a video some of them have a little box on the side and back of the cover, this ...  Read the complete review