Lite-On AllWrite LVW-5005 DVD/CD Recorder
Low Price with Low Performance
Yes, the price sounds like a steal, but upon living with this machine, I am sorry I bought it, even at the low price.  I won't repeat some of the other criticisms already written about, but I did find some drawbacks which I couldn't live with.  I have a LOT of irreplaceable DVDs made on my Pioneer DVD recorder, which I no longer have.  The Lite-On 5005 will not play ANY of them, regardless of the make of the disks.  Their tech support people were very nice, as mentioned elsewhere, but each time directed me to do different things, none of which worked.  Second, the directions manual and terms used in it, are unique to Lite-On, and take a lot of figuring out, which was difficult.  Third, when putting my satellite TV signal into this recorder, for some reason the recorder \\"saps\\" the color --- the colors are very pale, just this side of black and white.  The recordings I made on the Lite-On were pale in color also.  When I turn off the DVD recorder, the colors in the signal are bright and normal.  Unless you don't care that much about the quality of your recordings, put your money toward a higher-end product.