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Can the JVC's be hacked to remove the macrovision or are only the liteon/clones capable of that and if so whay did you rank the JVC's first choice and liteons third?
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No hacks for JVC. The JVC quality is better than LiteOn. JVC uses true VBR, LiteOn use CVBR (constrained VBR).
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Is a JVC with no remote a good buy?
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For the JVC units, everything is on the remote. Without a remote, it barely functions as a DVD player.
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is the Liteon LVW-5116GHC any good for this?
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Maybe. It's a model that came out after I quit paying attention to LiteOn units. Near the end, LiteOn released a lot of various models, with many of them being tied to a specific store. The supplies were limited, and it became a chore to keep up with them all.
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Originally Posted by cyber-junkie
where do you find the tech. info you need to determine if it's good for transfer? Maybe I could do my own research,
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The information you seek has largely disappeared -- a weakness of the Internet age. Much of our information on DVD recorders was acquired by:
- Buying/using/testing a unit (including dismantling it to see what components were inside). Some notes were lost in 2005, though I do remember many things from 2002-2005 that are no longer in the collection.
- Reading press releases, white papers, and other documents from the manufacturer -- often from their official websites. Many of these documents are now gone.
- We know people. Lurking in various places online are engineers, product designers, etc -- and we've build relationships with them through the years, sometimes getting an inside scoop on the gear.
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Originally Posted by cyber-junkie
I assume because this site ranked the newer Magnavox units an A- that the Magnavox MSR90D6 DVD Recorder would be good for transfer?
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- Older Magnavox decks were crap, to put it nicely. (Up through 2007.)
- Newer Magnavox decks can record off television nicely, often being Philips clones or near-clones.
No Magnavox deck to date has the kinds of filters that remove noise from VHS tapes.
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