RCA DRC8312n DVD Recorder/VCR COMBO
RCA DRC8312N:  Great product concept, lousy implementation
I needed to transfer many VHS tapes of family onto DVD's to share.  I looked into all units available, and, being an electronics engineering consultant who once worked in RCA's color TV research at David Sarnoff Labs, I spotted the feature called \\"Time base corrector\\" built-in.  This is a \\"must have\\" in my opinion, to make a rigid interlace from VHS.  Maybe other machines have it de facto but don't tout it.  Nevertheless, I bought it IN SPITE of the bad reviews I read about it.  To my dismay, the reviews about it being an unreliable TURKEY are all true.  When it works it performs exquisitely.  The trick is getting it to work.  Immediately after unpacking it, the first 5 minutes of recording were interrupted by it turning off its power.  I coaxed it to make a recording without shutting down, and got a complete disc.  Subsequently, I cannot coax it to work again, and it keeps turning on and shutting down, altering its clock setting, and generally throwing a tantrum.  This fidget-widget has me cursing.  I am making NEWEGG.com take it back and issue a refund.  AVOID THIS FIDGET-WIDGET !!!!!