Customer Reviews

Magnavox MDV650VR DVD+RW Recorder and Player

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We bought one of these units (remanufactured) well over a year ago. At first I did have some trouble finding disks that would reliably record. And I was afraid it was the recorder but it isn't. Some of the generic or no name brands would sometimes work sometimes not.

The only compatibility problems I've had have been with a portable DVD player we use when traveling. It can sometimes have trouble with DVD+R disks and disks rated at 8x or above. I have 3 other DVD players in my home and all disks burned on this unit play just fine in them.

I've found my best luck is using Ritek 4x DVD+R. These play on all our players including the portable. We've burned about 100 of them and have never had a bad disk.

I would've give this unit 5 stars except it's difficult to edit out commercials on DVD+RW disks. And when you do so, the unit pauses for a second when it hits the spot where the deleted space is.

I bought this recorder to replace the defective Cyberhome DVR 1600. This is an old machine built in May 2003 and refurbished in February 2004. As such it has a few idiosyncracies and a few features not carried on newer models. This nicest feature is that it starts recording instantly even with a blank disk. It postformats when the recording is done. The problem with the Cyberhome DVR 1600 was that it would not finalize disks. This machine will read DVD+R disks that wouldn't finalize on the Cyberhome. However, it won't read many DVD's from other sources, including DVD's burned on a home PC. My DVD player will not read many disks recorded on the Magnavox. I have had no problems with recording on blank DVDs. The Magnavox is big, about the size of a VCR. The features include enough buttons on the front to play and record DVDs w/o the remote. The windows are easy to navigate and the timer window can overlay over the TV signal being shown. One can also name disks or name video clips on a disk. The SP+ recording speed is very useful as it will record 2 hours 33 minutes on a 4.7GB DVD at very good resolution.