Magnavox MRV640 DVD Recorder
I'm embarrassed to admit I own this crap
I only wish I hadn't kept to my usual smart consumer ideals of researching a product before buying it. Alas, I was far from home and found it on sale at BestBuy. <br /> <br />I agree with all the other reviews here. My greatest problem now is that after buying a large pack of DVD RW+ discs, I tried one this morning and it worked fine for one set of recordings. After that things simply went down hill. Now it tells me that there IS NO DISC even after inserting brand new quality ones. <br /> <br />And who has ever heard of having to access functions through a menu which the simplest of DVD Players would have you access through the remote? As if it weren't bad enough how long it'll make you wait before even showing you the menu itself! <br /> <br />As for recording, WELL, when it DID work...even then...sometimes results were choppy that is if you chose to do stop and go recording of any kind. The only time it ever worked smoothly is if you had one single long recording planned out (such as a feature length film) and that is all. Otherwise you were stuck with a bloody mess.  <br /> <br />I'm sad to have wasted money and so much time with this substandard product. It's been a real headache and it's beyond that time for me to be able to return it. <br /> <br />MY ADVICE: STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT!!!! DON'T EVEN SPEND $20 ON A USED ONE IF YOU CAN FIND IT SINCE EVEN THEN IT'LL BE NOTHING BUT A HEADACHE FOR YOU!!!!!!