High quality picture

VCR+ doesn't allow for programming without using VCR+ codes

The Commercial Advance and Movie Advance have worked almost perfectly for me--now I mostly tape the shows I want to see and save a lot of time and bother because it skips the commercials automatically for me. The only time the Commercial Advance doesn't work very well is when I tape over the same tape several times.

Picture quality is excellent even on rental tapes. I also like the variable fast forward and rewind functions.

The only weakness is that to program it to record you must use the VCR+ codes which most of the time is fine and works very well but if I want to record longer than the program is set for it can't be done easily.

Overall, a very good machine.

Good recording

cheap look, bad remote, poor GUI, CA setup

I really can't compare the S-VHS aspect of machine, but I can certainly say the user interface and manual leave a lot to be desired. I'm a very bright computer science graduate, yet with the rich feature set of this machine, particularly the Commercial Advance, the manual is simply incomplete, and I've only been able to learn via experimentation precisely how it works. (And in my mind, doesn't work quite as you'd prefer)

The HRS-7500U is a nice machine for picture quality, but has it's problems like alkl consumer JVC VCR's. I sell these VCR's where I work and only recommend them to customer's if they are looking for a decent editing deck. JVC's VCR's get returned for so many repairs for example the most common are: stuck tapes, cheap front panel buttons that get stuck, S-Video connectors don't work, remotes don't work. These are the main reasons why JVC VCR's are having so many problem's because of cheap production. JVC is known to be a hard read from the manual to learn the operations, so human error is a problem also. But that is not the case for the other problems I mentioned. So I recommend Panasonic but it will lack the picture quality that the HRS-7500U offers with it's (TBC) and 2MB circuitry, but Panasonic rarely comes back for problems!