Even if it’s extremely difficult to purchase a movie on VHS these days, many consumers still have VHS tapes they’d like the opportunity to view again. To help fill this small consumer demand, JVC is the latest company to introduce a new Blu-ray player that also has VHS support, along with a 250GB HDD.
Along with supporting the now dead VHS format, the JVC DR-BH250 also has 1080/60p/24p support, BD-Live, a USB port, and an SD/SDHC card slot.
Most Blu-ray/VHS combo players are designed for the lower-end market, but JVC decided to change things up with this unit. JVC will launch the device in Japan next month with a $1,400 MSRP. It remains unknown if JVC will launch this Blu-ray player in North America or Europe.
Although DVDs and Blu-ray serve as the current and future formats, many people still have VHS tapes sitting around in the closet and attic. This JVC product will allow owners to transfer content off of VHS onto the HDD or copy it to a Blu-ray disc — a feature the Japanese electronics company hopes users will swant.
Sharp and Panasonic have both released Blu-ray/VHS combo players, with at least one other major manufacturer expected to launch a similar product in the first quarter next year.
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Originally Posted by olyteddy
I wonder if, at that price, the VHS deck is up to the quality of JVC decks in their prime or just some plastic hacked together POS like their more recent models...
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They have been known to have issues but so far it has worked fine though I hardly use it anymore, the cheaper units I'm sure were total junk, but by that time most entry level ones were anyways.
Now if that combo machine has a decent HD cable tuner or anything else useful what with the included hard drive it might be interesting as long as the price isn't totally stupid.
I think they'd be better off to drop the VHS part but they are probably trying to cover all the bases for the US market.
Well for 1400 bucks and no mention of any kind of tuner this thing will probably never come to the US. I can do most of what it does with my PC and a BD burner now plus my HDTV cable tuner thats in here, for way less money.
I was hoping for a blue ray player/dvd recorder combo with a 250gb hard drive for DVRing as that makes MUCH MORE SENSE than this idea. Obviously there were bunch of marketing guys sitting around trying to find out what the movie Back to the Future was really missing in that antique shop! For good measure, the player can also have a usb & super multi flash box for sdhc and flash cards to seve as content playing, recording, and transfer to & from disc, hard drive and flash media!
That IS something worth buying.. not these $128-$299 pieces of blue ray junk they sell today... innovate the RIGHT way! Also the device *MUST* be able to encode/decode mpeg2/mpeg4 xvid/divx at upto 720p resolutions, 1080p if they can spare it!
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