7 out of 7 people found this review helpful.
Nice Recorder-one fluke
Date of Review: May 13, 2009
The Bottom Line: For the price-$179 at WM, can't be beat.
I wanted to update my Emerson(Funai) EWR20V4 VCR/DVD Recorder because that is 4+ years old and VHS units will disappear in a couple of years, just as LP's, 8 Track and Sony Beta vcr's have gone. I had no problems with the Emerson and the Magnavox is the SAME maker, I figured it is a safe bet. Now that I have used the Magnavox for two months without a problem I can say that it is a good unit to buy. Wal-Mart had it for $179-how could you go wrong?(barring a lemon) I have an old TV and since this has a digital tuner I did not have to buy a converter to receive the new TV signal. I use this to watch the over the air channels using a rabbit ear antenna. Since I accidentally let time pass and could not use the Gov't coupon card, I would have spent $50+ for the converter box anyway. The picture quality is fair/good. Now, the important stuff- Use the Recommended Disc's only! It is Very picky on the disc recording manufacturer. Also,once a Movie, TV Show or personal Cam-Cord recording is copied-this unit will Force you to name the Next recording number/segment. It always assumes that there is space for another recording. Before and once Finalized,the menu will display an -unused/non-titled- segment. As odd as that sounds, I called their customer service people and they told me the same. That is the only real pain in the butt problem I found with this product. If not for that and based on the cost I would have assigned a 5 star rating.
