Sony RDR-VX500 DVD Player/Recorder with VCR
It is ok when it works....
Having a lot of VHS tapes that I wanted to convert to DVD, I thought this machine would be the one to do it.  Was I ever wrong.  The recorder is fine when it works.  I have had it in the shop for repair twice in the last 10 months.  For discs to be available for use on other DVD players, you must first finalize the discs.  After finalizing so may discs, the machine will fail and tell me it can't finalize the disc.  This has been the issue twice, but the latest problem was that the recorder would cut off during recording, whether it be from VHS or from something on TV.  I would have thought that a brand like Sony, it would have held up longer than this.  If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't have went with this brand or model.  Thank goodness for warranties!