Magnavox MRV640 DVD Recorder
DO NOT PURCHASE THIS ITEM.
This DVD recorder's life began when I purchased it at Circuit City about 6 months ago, and tomorrow, or shortly after, will be ending in the same place.  I have had this thing, and I know personally one other individual that has this same recorder.  The thing sucks.  It constantly shuts off at VERY random times. Disc Warning and Disc Error are DAILY visuals displayed on the Television screen and on the display menu of the recorder itself.  This product freezes countless times when you hit stop or want to scroll up and takes forever for menu to load.  Beyond all of this, which is actually the last straw, the Timer will not stop auto-setting itself.  I have set the timer before, and if I didn't need it to record for the duration of which I actually set it to, all I have had to do was hit power, and off it went, and could resume recording.  This is not the case tonight, this thing is on the chance (of many) I have given it.  I went under my regular \\"TImer\\" activity, hit power, and instead of it totally depleting any information on Timer Record as usual, it now continues to auto set itself sychronized with the clock, and will NOT stop! I have turned the power off, un plugged it, re set the timer to let it run it's course and it will not stop, and everytime I try to record something now, it says disc error!!!!!!!  No changing of discs will help!  I can't even explain the hell I have gone through this evening!  This review may be out of a fit of rage, but that does not make it any less false or any more embellished.  I have had NOTHING but problems with this.  And, on a rare occassion, when the timer does work, in the middle of recording, it displays \\"Disc Error\\" and shuts off.  On top of the random shutting off completely, it erases anything that I had previously recorded!  As I said earlier, I know of two people in my \\"world\\" that have this item, and we both experience the same inconvenient problems with it, to me, that is 100% of the people that I know that have this thing, and that is far too high of a rating to keep using this.  While it may have worked fine for the first month, I do NOT SUGGEST BUYING THIS ITEM FROM ANYWHERE.  I, like many other users, THOUGHT Magnavox was a reputable company with great products hand in hand.  I have NEVER been so disgusted and disappointed with an item.  I would like to burn the thing in a bon-fire.  If any Magnavox Representatives read this, I hope you know this product needs never to be reproduced or manufactured again.  If all of your products function like this one, your company should cease any business transactions and sink to the disturbing depths of functionality this product has.   <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <br /> <br /> <br />OTHERS MAY BE MORE EXPENSIVE BUT I'M SURE AT THIS POINT IT WOULD BE WORTH IT!!!!!!!!