Daewoo DV6T955B DVD / VCR Combo

• Progressive-scan DVD player and 4-head stereo VCR
• Playback formats include DVD, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, VCD, MP3, and VHS
• Composite, component, and S-video outputs; coaxial digital audio output
• Dolby Digital, DTS surround sound; high-end digital-to-analog audio converter
• Measures 17.1 x 3.7 x 10 inches (W x H x D)

UPDATE 2: I replaced my unit under warranty. The VCR picture quality is now excellent. It is as good as any VCR I own. Also, the tape counter now works ok. On the first unit I got, the VCR picture quality was poor.

UPDATE 1: MY UNIT HAS DEVELOPED AN ANNOYING QUIRK.

When playing a tape recorded in SLP speed, the VCR will sometimes play it at the SP mode. It is dependent on where in the tape you start playback. If you rewind the tape, you can find a spot where it plays OK, and then scan forward. This is on old tapes that I have used many times.

ORIGINAL REVIEW:

For a lower end unit, this is a good deal, with nice features for the price. However, it does not have all the great features of a higher priced unit.

I really like the DVD player on this unit. It works much better than any of my other DVD players (maybe because it is newer). It recognizes the DVD almost immediately. Jumping to different features on the DVD (like the menu, or different scenes) is very quick and without any glitches.

I bought this DVD unit because it plays VCD. It is one of the few remaining DVD's that play VCD's (an old Asian format). It also plays CDR's. I haven't tried the various DVD recordable formats yet. I will report when I do.

The remote control works very well. The system has a very quick response to the remote control. I have had other units, like Panasonic, where the remote control is not so reliable. It has some nice features, like a 30 second commercial skip, and all the usual ones, like flipping to the last channel viewed.

The menus are fairly easy to navigate. Programming the timer recorder is a good and easy as I have seen on any unit. It is certainly easier than on the Go, Pansonic or Zenith models.

The VCR works fine, and has a good mechanism. The picture quality is not that great when recording SLP mode. Playback of tapes recorded in the SLP (sometimes called EP) other players do not look as good when played on the Daewoo. I haven't tried the higher quality setting yet. The scan, and slow motion modes work well, although there isn't a choice in speeds.

The DVD portion has composite video out or S-video outputs. Like all DVD/VCR combos I have seen, the composite video only works with the DVD and does not work with the VCR. If you have a TV with composite video inputs, you hook up the DVD portion to that, and then you hook up the VCR to a different input on your TV. On the TV, you can watch the DVD player from either the composite inputs or the VCR inputs. The S-Video also only works on the DVD player. With many other DVD/VCR combos, the S-Video will also work for the VCR/tuner (especially those VCR's that can play SVHS tapes). I don't know why they can't convert the signal so that everything could go through the composite inputs.

Being a cheap model, here are the features that aren't as good as a more expensive model:

-When you turn it on, it always goes to DVD mode first. I use the TV monitor and VCR more often, so this is a minor inconvenience. It does change modes very quickly.

-The remote control is not universal, so you can't use it to control your TV.

-I could use more audio output jacks, so I could hook it up to both my stereo and my TV, without having to use splitters.

-Will not play SVHS tapes (I actually haven't tried one, so I don't know for sure).

-The display on the unit is very limited. When playing a VCR tape, it only shows "PLAY", and not the time or any other info.

Note, I did a lot of researching on Amazon for DVD/VCR combinations. None of them got good reviews from the readers. They all seemed to have reliability problems. Why is that? It may be that DVD/VCR combinations are so new that they aren't reliable yet, or only the people who have problems with them bother to write reviews.

In many reviews of different VCR's I see people complaining that you can't record in LP mode. LP is the medium quality setting where you get 4 hours on a tape. LP mode is no longer a popular option and is almost nonexistant these days. The improvements of the SLP or EP mode (6 hours per tape)have made the LP mode obsolete.

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Brand new unit, but the VCR player would not rewind. Too bad too, because the VCR plays fine, as does the DVD player...nice picture and sound, and it plays DVD+Rs, VCDs, etc. as advertised on Amazon. The unit looks nice enough too, though a little large. It has a solid feeling construction...made of metal and not plastic like many of the new low-end models. Regardless of what works, without the VCR being able to rewind, it's certainly not proving its reliablity. I guess I am glad it showed itself right away. Am going to return and buy a better quality unit for about $50 more.

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I bought this because I wanted the convenience of a combo unit and because I also have a Daewoo TV. It worked great for the first 5 or 6 months and then, suddenly, stopped playing DVDs. It sounds like a common problem with this unit. I won't buy Daewoo brand products again.

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The unit I purchased played DVD's with great quality. The recording and playback of VHS tapes, however, was about the worst of any VCR I have used in 23 years of video taping. The recordings (even at SP) have a great deal of noise and even streaking. This unit makes tapes recorded on other machines unwatchable. Just to make sure it was not bad tapes, I played the tapes back on several other machines (none of which are the recorders used to record the tapes), and they looked great. The Daewoo makes them look like they were recorded with bad reception or something.

I am sending this machine back right away. A similar-quality DVD player is half the price of this thing.

I got this unit at Target after my old DVD player conked out. I was just looking for a replacement DVD player, and then this unit caught my eye. My VCR was also getting old, and I thought it would be a good idea to replace both in one shot. After all, it would be cheaper than getting seperate units, and there would be way less wiring involved, one less remote, etc.

Well, the VCR worked great, and I was pleasantly surprised at the sound quality (I have a pretty good sound system). However, the DVD section had a distinct high pitched whining noise that came through my speakers, like a motor running, which was noticeable even at moderate volume levels when playing DVD's. No good! I picked up a good DVD player and set the Daewoo aside. I never got around to returning it, and ended up giving it to a friend who needed a VCR and only played DVD's through her TV set's small speakers. Everybody is happy now, right? Wrong! One week later, DVD's started to freeze, at first for a split second, then longer and longer until they are now unwatchable. What a dud this thing is!