CyberHome CH-DVR 1500 Progressive-Scan DVD+R/+RW Recorder and Player , Silver
Correction - mine is now useless too
I can't figure out how to change the number of rating stars when editing this review -- believe me, I now give this thing only 1 star.   I previously wrote the positive review that you see below, because it looked like my particular unit was working OK.  Only about a month later, I started experiencing all the same problems of failing to read perfectly good disks and just freezing up.  It's now useless and I'm throwing it away.  DO NOT BUY THIS MACHINE, NO MATTER HOW CHEAP YOU CAN GET IT.    Here is my earlier review -- little did I know:    I guess I'm one of the lucky few -- I bought my player on Ebay over a year ago and it's still working fine for the most part.  It may be because I don't use it all that often, I might watch 1-2 DVDs a week, record a few per month.  I like its features and it's easy to use.  I do find that sometimes it refuses to read a particular DVD -- either a blank disk or a commercial movie, and sometimes a DVD that I record on it simply won't load when put into another DVD player.  It's a bit frustrating, but you get what you pay for and this unit was pretty cheap.  One feature I like is you can program it to read DVDs from all Regions [...]