Go Video VR3840 Combo DVD Recorder and Hi-Fi VCR
Support Tells You the Problem is Bad DVD Blanks
Well, right from the get-go I started having a little problem with the DVD recorder. A few disks did not record properly. I called Support. Support told me they had some issues with the quality of the DVD media made by a certain corporation. I changed DVD media to 'M......'. About 60% of the disks came out well. That's 4 out of 10 that are coasters. I still believed support, thinking that in every batch the DVD manufacturer is going to have some bad disks that sneaked through quality control. I cleaned the unit using a canister of compressed air, like Electronic Technicians use. My wife got me 200 disks from Costco made by TDK (Costco is where I bought the VR3845). The first 5 disks came out OK, I thought. I decided to check them all the way through, so I skipped ahead at 5m intervals. At 15m on one, a freeze in the video. At 40m on the next, freezes and skips & lost audio. Now I wonder how many of my 'successful' burns had skips? A friend gave me 6 hours of his pianist son on VHS to copy for him. I thought the burn was successful since I didn't watch the whole thing. A father does watch the whole thing. He reported skips and freezes (mostly freezes). I had him log the times. I checked the parts of the DVD he said froze and the same thing happened on the VR3845. I tried DVDing some old TV shows from the TV feed. Several freezes and it's getting worse. To top it off, my warranty just ran out. Just over three months and I have another piece of electronic junk in the cabinet and I'm out $240. Don't buy this. Support will try to convince you that you bought bad media blanks. You buy into that and the warranty will run out on you before you realize that it's the machine.<br /><br />Recommended<br /><br />No<br /><br />Amount Paid (US$): 240