Gateway AR230 Progressive-Scan DVD Player / Recorder
So bad, it's like an experiment.
\\"If anyone buys this crap, we must be magicians!!!\\" must be the \\"in-house\\" Gateway motto for this pile of mung called the AR-230.  Silly me...I thought I would purchase one of these machines for my wife for Christmas 2003.  Three units and 2.2 years later I still can't record a single viable DVD on this thing.  It has been collecting dust in the basement until quite recently however. (we gave up on the AR-230 about 1.9 years ago since our computer does it's job well.) You see, we noticed it said \\"progressive scan\\" on the unit.  Golly!  Now we can really take advantage of our HDTV right?  Wrong.  (...) DVD player looks fantastic compared to the pixel laden, rich vomit \\"block like\\" mess that the AR-230 produces.     Words cannot describe the frustration, anger and disgust.  Avoid and run away...you get what you pay for...I just wish we could get our money back.    Thanks for your time.