Terapin TX-0002 Audio/Video CD Recorder , Gray
no wonder it's discontinued
I ordered one of these units on impulse a couple of years ago but didn't set it up immediately (flooded basement, broken sewer line, new baby--you know how it is!). Bad luck there. Once I did get it up and running, I quickly discovered that it was useless for the task that I'd bought it: making VCDs of family videos. The problem with the unit is that it freezes during recording whenever there's the slightest imperfection in the video signal, which, with analog video, is bound to occur now and then, so what I've ended up with is CDs with a few minutes of action and then a single frame, frozen, all the way to the end of the CD. (When I contacted Terapin about my problem, explaining that I'd just taken the product out of the box and it didn't work right, they basically shrugged and said, \\"Tough. It's out of warranty.\\") So if you see one of these on Ebay or at a garage sale, be advised that it may work for audio, but don't get your hopes up that you'll be able to capture video (unless you have a digital camera--but then why would you want a Terapin, with its inherently inferior video quality?).