Cyberhome CH-DVR1600 DVD Recorder
I should have known better
As a TiVo user, I had several programs on the hard drive that I wanted to transfer to DVD. After a trip to Best Buy, I bought the CyberHome DVR 1600. It played DVDs fine and my one attempt at recording was a success. However about four months after I bought it, just this week in fact [12/19/2005], it started to have difficulty loading commercial pre-recorded DVDs. Those that would load would momentarily freeze during playback. As attempts to play disks progressed, it finally stopped loading any DVDs. The troubleshooting guide is less than informative. It states that all of the problems with non-playback are from wrong region DVDs, dirty DVDs, or upside-down disks. Upside-down disks? The disks all played fine on both Sony and Pioneer players. I should have known that a sub-$100 recorder would be junk. Since the unit's more than three months old, it isn't worth spending anymore money on sending it back to CyberHome for repair.