Summary:
I was lucky enough to get one of these for a very low price. Which is good, as it seems rather cheaply built. there's a few too many clicks and whirrs for my taste, indicative of mis-fit parts that may not last through the years. Setup was a little annoying and the remote control seemed designed for someone with seven fingered hands.

Picture quality is excellent. Sound would probably be more impressive if I had a better sound system myself. I hope the picture quality can last until the death of VHS, but I'm not sure this is a machine for long-term use.

Strengths:
Great picture quality.

Weaknesses:
Bad design. Seems cheaply built

Summary:
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.

Strengths:
High quality picture

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

Summary:
I have the machine for 3 months now. So far I don't have a chance to try out a S-VHS tape yet. I can say that the SVHS-ET does work as promised. It provides very good picture
even at the EP mode. The video memory helps to enhance lousy pictures. It is rich in features, but honestly some of them are hard to use (may I say commercial advance...?)
When you press Play, you have wait for a sec or two before it will activate. Very slow compared to my old Mitsubishi 4 head HiFi. Also, when you play, it will automatically switch to the VCR mode, screwing the picture if you are watching TV. (because it borrows ch 3).Has to press the TV/VCR button again. (that really sucks) As some has said before, the remote control really sucks. First I think it is illuminated, but then I find out it is only "glow in the dark." It looks cheap. I expect to a better remote for a CDN$560 machine.
One last comment: want to get the best of the SVHS-ET? go get some high-grade tapes. Also, it provides screwy pictures for the first 30 minutes of my newly-purchased Saving Private Ryan.

Strengths:
clear picture, good recording quality

Weaknesses:
cheap remote, no S-Video input at the front, slow mechanism

Summary:
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)

Strengths:
Good recording

Weaknesses:
cheap look, bad remote, poor GUI, CA setup

Summary:
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!