I saw the display model the other day. More metal and less plastic parts than a lot of cheapo VCR's I've seen in the past decade. And incredibly, it's not made in China!

No VHS logo anywhere on it. The only outputs are USB and RCA. No recording, so no tuner of course. (I doubt anybody is going to plug their camcorder into the RCA inputs unless they're still using VHS-C or something!) Being mono only is a minus in my book.

I could see it being used for some really old nasty mucked up rental tape you don't want to stick in your expensive gear, but adywan said the picture quality is below par.

Maybe they will be dirt cheap after Christmas? ;)