DVD Recorder problems

My parents have a Cyberhome DVD player, we bought it in December, it worked for a couple of months and then became unreliable, we got it replaced and about a month ago it worked at first but now it is becoming unreliable again.

We are using mainly CD Rewritable discs, they are top notch Sony ones but surely CDRWs can be written to more than two or three times without being a problem?

All discs are causing problems with it, is this common with DVD recorders or is just because it is a cheapo one?

Btw is the the TV kind not the PC kind.

 

can it handle DVD-RAM discs? (and i assume u mean DVD-RW's not CD ones). i have the feeling dvd-ram's are alleged to be more reliable (maybe something to do with the plastic case they come in?).
i have a panasonic dvd recorder, everything gets recorded to the internal hard drive, and if i want to preserve, i can backup to dvd discs.
i use and swear by DVD-R's from datawrite, the titaniums with the
cmc mag ae1 dye.
see http://www.burn-media.co.uk/product.php?productid=16567
£9 for 50 (that's 18p each) plus postage.

 

I do mean DVD yep . Of the top of my head I don't think it supports DVD-RAM, I think it is just the usual -/+ R and RW standards.

 

Is it just recording that's a problem? Do things appear to record OK but then you can't play them back? Do pre-recorded DVDs play OK?

I had a Philips DVDR890 for 2 years which never really worked. At most it worked for about a month or two after being fixed and then it had to go off to be sorted again (which took a month). The first thing to go tits up was reading pre-recorded DVDs. It was a design fault with the laser mech that affected most early Philips DVDRs - do Cyberhome use the Philips mech?

I now have a Sony RDR GX300 which works flawlessly.

Michael.

 

I am not sure what it uses as I have not opened up the case, it will invalidate the warranty, we bought it from ASDA which means returning it will be a doddle, they give a full refund even after the first month.

It fails to record at times, some times it crashes when he try and delete recordings, some times it records but won't play back. A laster fault does indeed sound very likely.

I am not sure about pre recorded ones.