The initial installation is not easy. So the poor guidance is no gapless insights into the partly logical controls and key functions.
Here is overwhelmed technically Lowbrow. The help of a technically savvy is recommended. The tuning designed to time-consuming: no sender identification and no standardized representation of the special channels complicate the start and the Order of the transmitter in a desired order.
Is this hurdle first time, but the service and the pre-programming is then very simple. A tape counter is in place, but can be displayed only on the screen. Annoying: The counter is always displayed for a few seconds. When coils and a certain spot on the tape an incomprehensible state. I would even call it a bug. A corresponding information this one searches in vain in the pitiful instructions.
Blackouts (even of short duration) acknowledged the recorder with data loss.
The image quality at SP corresponds to VHS standard. In the LP mode, the picture is however marginal. Sound quality is good, Kopfumschaltgeräusche are pleasantly unobtrusive.
Pros and rewind is very good. This central basic functions dominates the FUNAI so.
Bearing in mind that the FUNAI is available as a standalone DVD recorder of the last of its kind, one will have to come to terms with the lack of convenience functions.
CONCLUSIONS: For people who do not want to do without easily on their VHS tapes, the FUNAI a recommendation is certainly worth it, because the above primary functions of recorder has all it!