More like 30 years, but I do agree. I feel it may be do to the fact that since the technology is so outdated, you can literally find old tapes at a Goodwill somewhere for 25 cents.
If this is a Magnavox MWR0V6 it is a good machine. Mine no longer reads DVD's for recording and I've tried various, recommended brands in the Owner's Manual but, I've also used an extraordinary amount and recorded scores of home DVDs in other words, run it into the ground! So I got much more use than was required and went way beyond the warranty. It costs me less that $50.00 as I purchased it on discount.
All newer products like these are all made by Funai. They are made really cheap, flimsy and don't last long at all. Brands like Magnavox, Sylvania, Emerson, Symphonic, and Sanyo are all owned by Funai and they all suck. So stay away from anything newer made by Funai.
For about $50 you could purchase used any one of maybe a hundred different cameras with video recording capability that would smash the quality shown in this upload. It is dark and out of focus throughout the 6 minutes I have thus far made it through. Guessing you might have been using a cellphone video with no zoom, no quality and no anything else other than the record and stop buttons. Or just one that fails indoors. I have a Canon SX10 that is perfect outside, though flops inside unless all the curtains are open. Combined with your constant moving (whereas you could have set the camera down pointing at the subject while talking), I never managed to get a clear view of what the machine looks like in use, the reason I looked up a Magnavox ZV427 and found myself here. Used cameras on eBay are your friends. In your defense, the video watched right before this one and covering the same recorder equally suffers from a dark, out-of-focus constantly moving review. Thanks anyway. Moving on now.
I bought one brand new and had nothing but problems with it from day 1...I've heard from reading many online reviews that it was a disaster of a product...Someone told me they are not worth trying to fix and to just throw it out..
Mine lasts for 2 years, then quits recording no matter what brand I use. I'm on my 4th one plays still, not recording. Walmart has a exact duplicate new, under the sanyo brand, so I'm going there today.
Does ANYONE know how to *reformat* a DVD+RW(properly)? I have a VHS to DVD VCR recorder and I put footage on one of my DVD+RW's and I want to erase it and put new footage on. I took one DVD+RW and formatted it on my Macbook Pro with 'disk utility' and now I can't record back onto it. Help, thank you.
