Lite-On LVW5001 DVD Plus Player/Recorder
It's Junk!
This DVD recorder could be easy to like, if it only worked. My first experience with this gem of a product was early January 2003 ... After unpacking and hooking everything up, its drive wouldn't open. It behaved like a frightened turtle. I took it back for an exchange and the 2nd unit worked fine, for about three weeks. Now early February, the recorder no longer read media, nothing. (...) I had to box it up and send it to the Lite-on service center in Hayward CA. (...) ... . I received my repaired unit at the end of February. The good news, it reads DVD's. The bad, it couldn't read anything it recorded. It destroyed 5 DVD+RW's along the way (continual invalid disk). I downloaded the firmware as was recommended, but this didn't help. The unit destroyed media it formatted, recorded flawlessly (I assume) but couldn't read what it recorded. None of my other DVD players could read the recorded disks as well. I again emailed Lite-On for a RMA, which I received a couple days later. So off I go to the shipping department to send this thing. I later received the unit back from lite-on, unfortunately the same problems remain. I'm not sure if they did anything. I have lost a lot of confidence in this brand name. I have since purchased a new DVD recorder (RCA) and am very pleased with it thus far. As for lite-on, I can only hope my experience was just a case of bad luck. I hope anyone who's purchased one is happy with it. I'm glad to have moved on from what has been a very bad experience and horrible electronics choice.