Zenith XBR716 - DVD recorder/ VCR combo - black, silver
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Zenith Electronics is focused on the digital future, building on a proud heritage of leadership in entertainment products for the home and professional markets.PRODUCT FEATURES:Superior recording format flexibility: DVD?R/DVD?RW/DVD+R Double-layer;All digital video and audio output;Auto-dub personal video from DVD to VCR or VCR to DVD;Convenient recording and editing from digital camcorders with DV (1394) input recording. Product details and pricing info |
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5 Customer Reviews Posted
- Horrible Product
- I've given up on this unit. Never successfully recorded anything from TV to DVD... about halfway through any DVD it would just give up, and the next time I'd try to turn it on it would spit out the media with an "unrecognized disk" error. Eventually, every disk became an "unrecognized disk," even pre-recorded commercial disks and disks recorded from the unit itself. It would accept nothing, either to record or even to play, but spit everything back out with an error. It became completely useless except to play VHS tapes. The first time this condition developed it was still within warranty, and the factory "repaired" it. And yes, I said the _first_ time. The "new" unit started doing the exact same thing within six months. Even though it was no longer under warranty, the factory again took it in, and repaired it again for free. I'll grant that LG customer service has been good. But the unit is terrible. After two repairs, I don't trust it. I've purchased a replacement model from another manufacturer. (And for the record, even when it was working, most commercial VHS tapes can't be copied because of protection encoding in the tape, so if your goal is to copy your collection of commercial videotapes to DVD, this won't do the trick. Even when it isn't broken down or at the factory for repairs.)
- 2008-11-26, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- VCR works alright, DVD recorder is screwy
- We've only managed to record one DVD (after 6 or 7 attempts, why keep throwing money away with the media?)in the nearly two years of owning this. There's no tuner (we have to use another VCR to use as the tuner). We've also been having the problems with the DVD player/recorder spitting out discs. We take the discs and put them either into the Panasonic player we bought 5 years ago and our computer DVD drives and they all work great in those devices. We'll be looking for another brand of DVD recorder/VCR (Panasonic's always a possibility).
- 2008-08-30, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- This DVD player stinks
- What a piece of junk.
Mine completely died about 10 months after I bought it, and I didn't even use it that much. It always ran really hot, whenever I played DVD's they came out warm to the touch, and the chassis was always very warm when the unit was on. It was always a little flakey and didn't seem to work quite right, especially when burning DVD's.
But now the unit totally crapped out on me and won't even record or play DVD's or VHS tapes. This is one of the worst pieces of electronics I have ever bought. Please... do yourself a favor and do not buy this unit, even though you will be tempted by the low price. - 2008-08-30, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Has a Fatal Flaw
- Have had this miserable product for just under a year. It was a monster to get hooked up though I paid to have it done professionally after several knowledgeable nerds failed. It replaced a Go Video dual deck VCR which finally gave up the ghost after 10 years of faithful service. Accepting the inevitability of VHS (of which I have an extensive collection)demise, I decided to bite the bullet and go to DVD while retaining the ability to watch and record on VHS. In spite of instructions in the manual to the contrary, this set has no capacity to use timer recording from TV to DVD or VHS. I cannot count the hours I have wasted trying to accomplish this. There is absolutely no way to get the option of TV input. This is the fatal flaw especially since I only want to record worthwhile old movie classics from TCM. There is hardly anything else worth watching or recording on TV. That was bad enough, but now the DVD rejects playing 90% of the DVDs it was playing fine before. Now It rejects Netflixs and almost all of my own DVDs with a No disc or Unrecognized disc error. They play fine on another DVD player we have. No amount of cleaning or troubleshooting makes a difference, and the age or # of times played for a disc makes no difference.
None of the options/models for replacement that I am seeing in my online searching shows much promise as I read the reviews. Frankly, I wish DVD technology had waited to appear until after I was dead and gone. - 2008-07-29, 4 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- limited use so far
- plays dvd's cd-rs ok havn't done much else having trouble recording with vcr
A lot to hook up if you have sat. box av 5.1 stereo and this unit and also tv to hook up. manual just shows to hook up to tv. not the best way to hook all these units to work together! I don;t like that there's no coaxial hookups just s-video and rca's for audio so you have to put tv in video mode for playback.I'm having trouble figuring this thing out. I tried to call support number waited half hour then hung up. Seems to be LG UNIT not Zenith? May be a good product but it's difficult to use for me. - 2007-11-04, 11 of 16 people found this review helpful, Rated:
