Aspire Digital AD-8091 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder
There should be a "ZERO STARS" rating for this junker
Do NOT buy this worthless junk.  I thought I could use it to record TV shows..  First time I tried to play the recorded show back, I immediately noticed the audio volume is at least 10X LOWER than the TV source or any of my other VCR's also connected to my TV.  So, to barely hear the dialog from the Aspire DVD, I have to crank the TV audio up to maximum... which allows to me to hear a lot of hiss and hum, and will knock me over if I accidentally switch back to the TV.  I called the Aspire \\"tech support\\" and finally got through after many hours and learned the \\"problem\\" was that I was using the Aspire internal tuner to tape TV programs from (excuse me?)... seriously, he said to get proper audio I would have to use a second external tuner and feed it into the Aspire.   <br /> <br />I taped three programs and learned pretty quick the unit was unreliable for turning on and taping at a specified time.  I learned that the reason is it may not be \\"recognizing\\" the DVD-RW disc when it spins up and then it just shuts off and records nothing.  Silly me, I bought ten brand new top quality DVD-RW discs thinking they would work in a machine specifed to record on DVD-RW.  Well, they do sometimes..... <br /> <br />The last salt in the wound was that when I tried to watch the three programs I had recorded, I immediately noticed something was wrong.  One of the \\"thumbnail\\" images for each recorded program was changed and was the same image as the previous one.... and when I clicked on the one that had been corrupted, it refused to play and just made lots of whirring and clicking noises.  Program destroyed and lost forever. <br /> <br />So, in summary:  unreliable for recording, may destroy a program you did manage to record, audio is defective by design.  Other than that....  no problems to report. <br /> <br />I have no idea how this dog ever got out of the kennel.