iLO DVDR05 Personal DVD Recorder
Overpriced
You would think that a DVD recorder for a Ben Franklin is a pretty good trade. Wrong. <br /> <br />This thing successfully recorded about four times. Then it stopped cooperating. It would claim to be recording, but the resulting disc was unreadable. The whole machine would lock up if you left it on \\"pause\\" for more than a couple of minutes. Sometimes a commercial DVD would have to be ejected and reinserted several times before the machine would recognize it. After a few weeks, it started scratching DVDs, destroying them. <br /> <br />As for me being technically savvy, I am an electrical engineering student. I'm the guy that my friends call when they have technical questions. I know how to operate this equipment, so I figured I'd save some money by getting the cheap machine. I was dead wrong. This thing isn't worth five bucks, and I paid twenty times that. Never again!