Video Reviews

So far this TV is fine, but nothing special. The wide screen gives the picture an "off" quality to me, and I don't know if that is just true of all wide screens. Picture is not as clear as I get from my Panasonic flat screen, audio is fine, but for me it would have to be bad to be a problem. One irritant is a misunderstanding in the product data. It is described as having PIP, which I thought was great for the price. When I got it, I found out that it does not have 2 tuners, so can't do TV PIP, but can be used as a computer monitor, and get TV or video PIP on the computer screen if you want it. Or, TV, plus video PIP. I think the Panasonic is a little better quality, but this one will do the job for a basic TV if you are not too fussy. I wouldn't get it unless it was on sale, but it isn't bad enough to send back.

You can find very easy to learn about this instrument because the lessons are very simple to follow and very clear. This video is useful for people who don't know anything about music speacially with the easy examples. The manual is also useful, clear and easy to use it. Maybe the video could will be better if they have showed letters, text or something like that at the same time of lessons, on the screen. The video in general terms is clear, the sound is excellent and the person who play the bass guitar really know about it. Sure you have to get this if you want to play this instrument also because the price it's not expensive and it's worth.

the equipment that comes with this is user friendly but there are 2 things bad about it. Even if you have a reception unit, like an attena the picture on the computer is not that good. And unless you have a non intergreated grafics card, yuo pictur quality will be bad

I had this card to make VCD from VHSs I shot
in the past two years. This is great. I have
video studio. The resolution is about 352x240.
Now I upgrade video studio, it will output
DVD quality video, more specificlly, SVCD.
The picture doesn't look good. One more reason
is my VHS looks pretty dark because I shot them
in room, not out under bright shine.
But overall, you got what you paid for.

Worked great. Love it.

I just got a good deal on one of these locally; I do not think there is another one that would have made me happier. It has lots of great features, almost everything I wanted.

Here is what it lacks: the included remote lacks some TV control features (TV/Video button does not work as desired, this is acknowledged in the manual, Channel up/down, Volume, Power only). The rewind is not high speed, and it cannot be set to automatically turn the power off when tape is rewound (a nice feature of my old Magnavox). The clock does not auto-set, but that was a dumb feature anyway I shut it off on my old Sony. It does not have a fiber optic output, but who needs that anyway? No VCR+ Codes input either. The remote is a little long, but that's O.K.

This unit replaced a high end Sony that died too young (~3 Years). I am one of those that actually knows how to program my VCR's, the programming on this one is easy & basic, but could be better (they could have allowed numeric input rather than just up and down scrolling). They also could have allowed programming from the front of the unit like my old Sony (boy was that every a great/easy way to program it). I think there is a Sony model that offers that feature in a Combo unit, but it is not worth the price.

It does not say it has 19um heads, but the salesman said they all do now even the cheap ones. I believe him because of other signs (no LP mode for recording only SP and EP also called SLP).

I say by it. The only reason I did not give it the fifth star was the lack of a video input selection button on the TV portion of the remote.

Also be warned there are only 13 brands listed for the universal TV remote: Hitachi, Sony, RCA, Sanyo, Zenith, Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba, JVC, Mitsubishi (which they spelled Mitubishi), Magnavox, Funai, Goldstar

Features I liked:
VCR: Index mark and search, Auto Head Cleaner, 4 head HiFi Stereo, AutoSet 181 Channel Tuner, tape counter is displayed in hours:minutes:seconds, two search speeds when Cueing and Reviewing, and OTR (they call it IRT).
DVD: Progressive Scan selectable, parental lock, good component outputs on back, and many others.

We gambled on this Hitachi package because its description and photographs appeared to fit the FAMILY Vs. Unitied Artists FILMAKER category, seeking a "User Friendly" model. The gamble paid the following dividends. A CamCorder that is light, simple to operate without requiring the 3 eyed camera-person. 1 to film and 2 to consult the owners manual. This model comes with a lo light feature Vs. built in lights on other models. Our lo light filming in both indoor and outdoor settings proved positive with "tru color" imagery without the lamp glare that is common with the built ins. The Autofocus feature will require more attention, as it is very positive to the dead-center subject rule, especially involving indoor moving targets i.e. 5 year old grandsons. One feature not advertised was this CamCorder's 2.5" Flip out screen: its COLOR! The camera bag is attractive and roomy. Tripod is ok, but its a lightweight model. We're Very Happy with our USER FRIENDLY HITACHI.

Faced between the choice of a plasma TV and a projector.

I purchased the SB-21 from the HP SITEX 2003 Pavilion. Pretty impressive projector.

Great size and projection and lamp life. I see a few lines at the bottom of my projected image - will get HP to investigate.

Comes with everything needed in the box. Pretty much plug and play. The remote is functional but drains batteries. But I don't use the remote much.

Well, I could consider this part of my update, I use to use a Pentium II 450mhrz TNT 16 mb graphics card, and 128 mb of RAM. It was ok, but when I ugraded to a pentium III 800mhrz, 256 mb of RAM, and this video card, the biggest difference was in the processor, I coudn't really notice that much of a difference when upgrading when using the new video card...IT WAS JUST OK. I'm sure it would run games today and future games a lot better than my ol' TNT 1 would....still.....People say this video card I use is "standard", but from my perspective...there's no such thing as "standard". They say:"I HAVE GEFORCE 3! IT ROCKS! GEFORCE 2 ...!" Or "GEFORCE 4 rocks!UPGRADE TOO IT DUDE!"
But I don't really care what they say....it runs OK to me.
Fine, you see...I'm more of a stragedy/role playing type pc game genere kinda guy...so I don't play first person shooters very often unless it's a must have, the last must have first person shooter I played was a game called "Unreal", and it ran perfect!
Well....what ever those other people say...all I think is this video card kicks ...!

This product is one of the coolest security or personal use cameras. It comes in color and is wireless. It also comes with 2 cameras and some software to install the format + extras and on there internet site gives you free downloads for it like motion detection and recording along with many other things to download or buy them in a software pack for cheap. So if you want to buy a good security camer. TRY IT!