Customer Reviews

Cyber Home CH-DVR 1600 - DVD recorder with TV tuner

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Here's a good example of why NOT to buy the lowest priced product in the store. Timed recording of shows inexplicably stops a part of the way through the programmed time. During playback, the taped show runs for 20 minutes and stops then begins playing a different show on the DVD EVEN THOUGH the DVD was re-fortmatted prior to taping! Operation Guide does not even have contact information for support. I won't be purchasing anything from this company again.

I have had nothing but problems, I have update the firmware twice, and still it messes up. Do not but, no support, no help. I guess in this case I really got what I paid for.

It's horrible. Don't buy. All it does is eat DVD-R/RW's. It doesn't close when it ends a reording so it's a waste of money. Stay away from it.

The end result of having a DVD Recorder is you have a DVD at the end to watch correct? Wrong. At the end of recording maybe 80% of the time you'll have a disk you can watch. 80% of the time isn't good enough for me. I can get an ulcer worrying whether what I'm recording off the TV tuner will work or not!!! I bought a DVD Recorder as a step up from a VCR.

This company was raided because they refused to pay copyright to Panasonic---NOT because they are selling junk that doesn't work. Guess no one cares about them selling junk to consumers.

There are so many different reviews out there. I have no idea which model to try next. I guess I'll try the Toshiba RD-XS35 and let you know.

0 Stars for ratings. About 7 or 8 months ago they sent first a DVD with firmweare upgrade. Then, they changed the unit. Only worked 3 more times. Now Does not even play a full prerecorded DVD. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY.

The recorder continually destroys the DVDs. You'd be lucky to ever get to the end of the recording without getting a bad disc or disc error message, which means you have to dump your dvd and start from scratch. I've tried many different brands of DVDs and still the same problem each time. Not much support from the website either.

Don't buy ANYTHING from this company, not even for $1!! Nothing works! There is no support, web site does not allow to contact anyone at the company. No phone numbers. Unit stopped working very shortly after I got it. Worse piece of junk I ever bought in my entire life!!

Company will not answer phone, website does not
work, Police raided them for unlicensed products.

My unit died 2 days after Warranty expired.

Product CANNOT be repaired..

Too upset to comment. Just brought this product this afternoon and I am returning it first thing tomorrow morning. Its respone to the remote is slow. The TV turner doesn't work and the list continues . . . If I could give this no stars, I would!

The remote control that comes with this unit is the only one that we can get to work with the unit. Since there are only play/pause, eject, record, and standby/on controls on the front of the unit, if you lose the OEM remote you can no longer navigate menus or skip ahead/back. This is constantly a real pain in our family since we habitually lose the small remote that came with the unit and cannot use the other three universal remotes to control it.
Also, we have had problems recording DVDs - sometimes it messes up during formatting the disk and leaves in unusable -- sometimes we record a disc-full of programs only to find that they are unplayable later.