Sylvania DVR90DE Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder
does not work with newer media
It's a shame because the unit works quite well with my older 2x dvd-rw media, but after buying some 4x -rw and 8x -r neither would work. Talking to customer support (on sunday morning, with an 800 number, after a 20 minute wait) they claim this unit will not work with the newer media, and so I asked what happens in a year or two when there are no more 2x -rw discs for sale, or 4x -r. The rep suggested I return it.     One other point: the manual appears to be a translation and the translator clearly does not understand English grammar. On the box it states: \\"this unit cannot record on any copyright protected dvd\\". This even stumped the support rep. Apparently it should have said \\"from\\" instead of \\"on\\". The manual is forever making these sorts of errors and it is often difficult to know exactly what are the correct procedures or restrictions.    Oh, my first attempt to play a recorded dvd (2x -rw which works) in my sony dvd player did not work until I put it back into the recorder and did a finalize operation. This could explain the difficulty another reviewer mentioned.    Sadly, I had to return the unit.    ----------------------------------------    Here is an email I got from cust support:    ----------------------------------------  Thank you for your inquiry:      Please check the list provided below, the problem is most likely a compatibility issue.      Below is a list of disc that should or should not be used with the recorders.       DVD-R  4x can be used  8x will result in a disc error.      DVD-RW  2x can be used  4x will result in a disc error.      QUALITY ASSURANCE    DVD DISCS      The following discs have been tested and are proven to be compatible with our DVD recorders.      MEMOREX DVD-R  FUJIFILM DVD-R  FUJIFILM DVD-RW  IMATION DVD-RW  IMATION DVD-R 2.0  TDK DVD-RW 2X  TDK DVD-R 2X       Funai Corporation  Customer Support