Magnavox MRV640 DVD Recorder
Buyers take heed
Read the other reviews and take them to heart.  This unit is a boatanchor.  It played fine until it completely quit, giving the \\"blocked\\" message that seems to be a running issue, and that was all she wrote.  As for recording, there were several times I thought it was programmed properly, but it failed to record.  Since I always reviewed my settings, I now doubt it was my fault after reading other reviews.  On the successful recordings, many were fine, but others would suddenly pixelate, and would then pick up a few seconds into the program later, or maybe a few minutes later.  You could watch an hour program in about 40 minutes in some cases just due to the missing content.  Name brand DVD discs, too.  Meanwhile, the remote suffers from the same problem virtually all DVD devices have, the buttons are laid out by someone that has no clue what the device even does, and so you're continually hunting for the frequently used ones, while the ones you need once a year are scattered right in with the rest.  Utterly unintuitive, although truthfully, no worse than any other DVD device.  Ovbiously I never really got to the buttons I needed once a year, because the unit died in six months, after approximately 12 hours of recording time and maybe 20 hours of play time.  That worked out to about $5.00 per hour of use.  While it's a worthless piece of junk, I will admit it's the purty-est unit in my setup.  They should have spent some more time on the interior of the box.