Editorial Review:

Item Description:
Making DVD recordings from your VHS tapes has just reached a new milestone in simplicity with the introduction of YesDVD technology in the GoVideo VR2940. GoVideo has developed and mastered the technology of designing easy-to-use recording duplication devices and engineered many principles to make it as easy as possible and completely legal. GoVideo VR2940 DVD Recorder + VCR is the World's First Product combining YesDVD technology with a high performance DVD recorder and a hi-fi VCR, all in one! Automatically turn your home movies into professional quality, Hollywood-style DVDs at the touch of a button, complete with menus and chapters with picture thumbnails, as well as music videos based on home movie content, all with one easy-to-use unit. Uses 3 patented processes - TrueScan Pro, TrueView Pro & PerfectView ProGoVideo White Glove Customer Care personally guides you through operation. GoVideo White Glove team ensures you a great DVD recording first time, every time Digital Video input (DV/IEEE1394) on front panel - Control your digital camcorder and create DVDs from your home movies Playback VHS tape, DVD Video, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, Audio CDs, MP3 audio CD, and JPEG image files on CD-R/RW, and Kodak Picture CDs This Dual-Deck will not make copies of Macrovision encoded source materials

Amazon.com Item Description:
Whether you're recording or playing back, GoVideo's VR2940 dual-format DVD recorder and VCR has convenience written all over it. The deck is capable of copying VHS tapes to DVD and DVDs to VHS at the touch of a button (except where prohibited by copy-protection technology). For camcorder owners, transferring home movies to DVD has never been easier. A front-panel IEEE 1394 DV input accepts feeds from digital camcorders for easy recording to DVD and for playback on your TV. You get 8-event, 1-month timer recording and you can choose whether to record to tape or disc for each program item.

Record your favorite television shows and treasured home videos to high-quality, long-lasting DVD+R (write-once) and DVD+RW (rewriteable) discs. The recorder's built-in NTSC TV tuner and onscreen user interface permits up to eight timer recordings over a single month, with five recording speeds providing between 1 and 6 hours of content on each 4.7 GB DVD. DVD+RW media require no finalizing--you can record, eject, and play them with minimal fuss, thanks to 'background formatting.' This feature, which lowers total burning time, is an advantage over the 'dash' formats. Other DVD+RW advantages include on-disc content editing and multisession writing.

When recording, the unit automatically creates a new disc title for every new recording. You can then add chapters to these recordings manually or have them automatically inserted at 5-minute intervals.

DoMiNoFX helps you create better-looking DVDs by digitally improving the input signal using 3 patented processes: TrueScan Pro, TrueView Pro, and PerfectView Pro. A technology called CleanCopy offers one-touch improvement and archiving of your VHS tapes to long-lasting DVDs. CleanCopy automatically enhances picture and sound quality for keeping your memories vivid.

The VR2940 is a first-rate DVD player, too. Movie fans will love GoVideo's AutoPlay DVD feature, which automatically skips ads, movie trailers, and disc menus, jumping right to the start of the main attraction. Simply place the disc in the tray, press the play key, and the movie will start without interruption. YourDVD, another GoVideo exclusive, simplifies your DVD player use by permanently storing the set-up preferences that--on most DVD players--need to be checked or unchecked every time you load a new DVD.

Other versatile playback features include progressive-scan video outputs and support MP3, JPEG, and Kodak Picture CDs. A variety of video and audio inputs--including front-panel connections for fast, temporary hookups--grant connection to virtually all televisions and home theater components.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of 'someday,' the VR2940's DVD player stands ready to deliver the full playback potential of your DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

And, unlike all other DVD/VCR combination products, the VR2940 will connect to your television and deliver DVD or VHS signals using any of its available video connections, including S-video and component-/progressive-scan video outputs. Now you can view both DVD and VHS content without having to change connections or switch TV inputs.

To help you navigate the transition from VCR to DVD recording, GoVideo's 'white-glove customer care' includes free telephone assistance in making your first recording, should you need it.

What's in the Box
DVD player/recorder, a blank DVD+RW disc, a remote control, remote batteries, an RF coaxial audio/video cable (3 feet), a stereo analog audio/composite-video interconnect (3 feet), and a user's manual.

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Rating: - * Go Video Combo Unit ...
I am sorry so many of you have had problems with your go video recorders. I have a couple vr5940s and have had very little trouble with them. I bought one from Sharper Image, and bought the extended warranty. I had to return the first unit, but the second one has been fine. I also bought one at Cosco on sale. Most DVDs I've used are major brands, and they record fine. I have made 4 hour recordings sucessfully. I have copied many VCR tapes. Some old tapes have dirtied my vcr section heads, but a head cleaner has fixed the problem. Rarely have I come across a DVD that won't read. Once in a while it occurs. I try it in my Sony player or my computer to see if it's a bad disc. So, I am surprised to see so many failures of the 2940. Maybe the 5940 is a better machine. I have 3 or 4 of the earlier VCR to VCR Go Video recorders, and they have always worked fine. So I am amazed at so many failures. I did have a DVD that would not read or eject, and I did have to unplug it to shut it off. And when I plugged it back in I could eject the disk. So I guess I have been very lucky. Jerry M. gmot455@mail.com

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Rating: - * Truly a piece of junk! ...
I had miltple problems with this one, almost from the day I bought it! The YES video quit working within the first week. I was not able to get any help from customer service so I decided to deal with that and just make dvd's without using the YES video feature. In addition to that after finalizing the dvd's I did make...there were compatability issues with other players as well as the Go-Video player itself. I can honestly say I have never owned any player or recorder that is as unreliable as this one. To top it off the last dvd I made is locked in the recorder and the record light is still on...even if you turn it off and back on again the record light does not go off and I am unable to retrieve my dvd.

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Rating: - * GoVideo VR2940 ...
I don't give this unit even one star but, I had to enter a rating to continue. I bought the VR2940 approximately a year and a half ago through "Vanns". Well, initially the unit worked fine, but, after about two weeks it started to freeze while recording videos and becoming unresponsive to button presses of any sort. I would have to unplug the unit, which, of course, would make me have to reset the clock and everything. So, I emailed GoVideo about it just a couple of weeks after I bought it in July. By December I had sent three emails complaining that something was wrong with the unit and had called twice. Each call ended with being told that they would mail me the Loader Version Upgrade CD's and that should fix it. I should have received the CD's by Christmas 2005 but hadn't so I went on my trip and assumed that I would receive them by time I returned. No such luck, and, when I called them back after New Year I was then told that they don't mail out Upgrade CD's anymore. Then, after mentioning that I would just send it back and get my money back I was told that the warranty was expired. I asked the person if I could speak with whoever is in charge, I was told that nobody was there. I asked if there was nobody higher up than him and he said no. I said, "So you're running everything over there then?" He said no. In total frustration I ended the phone call and had planned to see a lawyer about it - After all, I spent approximately $350.00 to buy the "YesDVD capable VR2940". Now I have a $350.00 VCR with an inoperable DVD player (It will only play some music CD's and won't even spin-up to accept the Loader Version Upgrad CD's I just burned with the new CD Burner I bought for this reason using Nero 6) and there's nobody out there to repair it. NEVER!!! NEVER!!! buy anything that has "GoVideo" in the name. NEVER.

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Rating: - * This is service? ...
GoVideo brags about its service. Here is what they really have. You have a problem, you call them. There is a voice that tells you to go to their website. You leave them an email, you get a response that says go to our website. At the website you get general instructions. There are no people that will talk to you if you have a special issue. Basically there is no service that I can find. The product doesn't work quite the way it is advertised either. Save your money. This company has nothing to brag about.

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Rating: - * DO Not Buy! ...
Although this is not the exact model i bought, it was very similar. To put it bluntly, these things made by go video are junk. Dvd player quit working after 1 month, vcr player quit rewinding after 6 months.