Lite-On AllWrite LVW-5005 DVD/CD Recorder
Slowly deteriorates and stops working efficiently
I bought this about one year ago, and was initially very pleased with it.  Unfortunatley it just started to deteriorate after a short time.  Firstly the cover is not on there very well and always seemed ready to fall off, you need to be very careful with that!  I have also had lots of problems with it accepting new disks, instead of preparing a disk for recording it takes 10 minutes to waste it by turning it into a \\"data disc\\".  I guess maybe you need to use the ultra expensive disks for it, I have no proof on that though.  Also it sometimes doesn't recognize a disc it finalized!  Meanwhile another machine or any computer can read it.  I would not buy this item knowing what I know now.  I think Lite-on should take greater care in releasing products to people.  A final thing was, it doesn't play CD's very well, it always inserts a loud click and sound gap in the sound every minute or so.  It makes listening to CD's aggrevating, DVD playback was the best use of this product.  But its a recorder, so dont get it for that!!