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AND, I had to have it boxed (tossed the original box) professionally, and take it to the Post Office with the fancy label they sent me. Some warranty. Sounds easy, unless you're handicapped and can't get around. 5 months after I paid almost $300 for this piece of junk, it stopped finalizing DVDs. HOWEVER, I had to send them $69 just to look at it. Considering what I paid for it, plus the additional $69, I could have bought an HD TV set. I called LG, and they told me I could send it back for repair under warranty. Never, never again will I buy anthing LG, since my LG air conditioner (about 8 months old) just went poof.
And at that point, having $369.00 invested in it, and needing even more repairs.I got 5 years use out of my previous DVD unit. Bought mine when they were newer on the market, and paid $300.00 for it.It lasted about 6 months before I started experiencing problems with it reading DVD's. At least they offer a 1 year, 'parts and labor' warranty.Do look at warranties offered. That was a Denon, and gave me great service.
No doubt sometime after that 30 day repair warranty expired, and my one year parts warranty expired, I can only see this unit giving me problems again. This model does have a tuner, for all the good it will do you. Got '3' years on that LCD computer monitor I purchased. it's basically a piece of cheap, but 'expensive' junk. Compare that to about 6 months, out of an LG product, and I'll never trust them again.Most would not believe all the time it takes to install and wire this unit into a system, eliminating, a VHS player, with the main television tuner in it, and the previous DVD player.
Wish I could have given it '0' stars.What's even worse, is that LG's warranty sucks as well. They refused and returned it back to me unrepaired.LG only warranties their repairs for 30 days, and I wasn't about to put out $69.00 on top of the $300.00 that I already spent, on an obvious 'lemon', that wasn't right from the beginning.
Then after the problems began, pull this out to send for repair, needing to rewire in a VHS player just to have a television tuner, and a cheap $40.00 'Wal-Mart special' DVD player to get everything working again, and just so one can watch basic television or a movie.These 'combo' units are 'junk'. A television tuner, a VHS player/recorder, and a DVD player/recorder all in one, and if one part goes bad, you might as well say it's all bad, as you loose 'everything' by pulling it out.After my experience with this LG product, I can honestly say that I will never buy another LG product again.
Between a poorly manufactured product, and extremely 'rude' customer service, I have already walked away from an LG LCD computer monitor that was on sale, and went with another brand not on sale.If I were to ever consider a similar product, I would go with the Panasonic. Another 'typo' on amazon's part.
Labor 90 days, parts, 1 year.After contacting LG, they sent a shipping label to return it back to them for repair, but at an additional cost of $69.00 for the repair, since the labor warranty had expired.Considering I only got about 6 months use out of it, and it seemed to be falling apart just sitting in my stereo rack, I demanded either a new replacement unit, or after paying the $69.00 repair charge, a 'fresh' new warranty, as if was new after the $69.00 repair. Also, some part on the faceplate trim began just separating from the assembly.
I viewed about a couple VHS tapes through it, never even got the chance to learn the complicated instructions on doing any DVD recording. So it wasn't on sale, but in the end well worth the extra money spent, over something with only a 1 year warranty, not to mention really bad customer service.If LG doesn't resolve this, check back for a video review, where this LG will be run over by a semi dump truck.
No, now I have one again because this thing went back to the store within one week (see below).The major problem is, well, it doesn't work. Then, you run RCA cables from the LG Outputs to the TV Inputs so you can play a VCR or DVD (the LG will send the signals through those RCA cables to the TV).The downside of this feature is that there is NO way to see which channel it is tuned to other than putting it on your TV monitor. I hardly think so. It constantly goes blank when I'm watching a TV show, playing a VCR, and most frequently occurs with DVD's.
"Now you have two." was their response. One coaxial cable must go to the LG, the other to the TV. It will be a long time before I purchase another LG product. Not so with this clunker. All Blocksbuster DVD's simply won't run on this piece of junk.
They feel it is more important for you to know what time it is than what channel you just surfed to. "But I have a clock already" I replied.
They start, but then go grey, then the picture reappears, and repeats over and over. For what I paid I would expect it to work for at least 3 days.So the jury's out: this is a poorly made item with not so great features, that doesn't merit consideration.
It has many other programming flaws (for instance when you push DISPLAY, it appears on screen for about 3 seconds, then disappears, so you cannot fast forward to a certain spot without REPEATEDLY pressing display) that I would not recommend this to anybody but the garbage man (where all junk belongs).LG: Life is Good. This product has one advantage: a built in tuner that allows you to watch one show and record another, so long as you have your cable feed split.
I called them and they said it's true, you cannot see the channel on the LCD display, only the clock. So, if you're watching channel 9, and you want to record channel 6, you MUST stop watching channel 9 and put the LG on your TV monitor to see which channel you are going to record.
In every other VCR I have ever owned, the clock on the display would change to the channel when you were switching channels, then change back to a clock after about 5 seconds. There's a reason they constantly get rated behind Sony, Philips and Panasonic, and I just found out why.(I would have given it one star, but the built in tuner feature made it two).
After resetting you may get lucky and the machine may resume playing from the previous DVD location. I originally purchased this unit to transfer VHS recordings (home movies) to DVD.
However, the result many times is a message informing the user that the disk cannot be read or there is no disk. I then have to play the disk in another player to finish watching the DVD.Good.
Bad first. The machine performs this function flawlessly.
The DVD player freezes up on a fairly regular basis, in most cases with rented DVD's. This requires you to get up and manually hold the power button to reset the machine.
I have created several DVD's from VHS and from digital camcorders with no problems.
(Not many).The DVD's I recorded in this would not play in my other DVD player, either, even after I finalized it. I have DVD players, and VHS recorders all over the place, and have no trouble managing them, but this thing needs the handbook in your lap to operate it. record mode. It should be called a decoder, not a handbook.Second, I was stunned by the slow speed of changing channels. It would not let me switch to VCR, and it would not power down, either, so it basically had my TV held captive, with one frame permanently stuck on the screen, and no way out.
It started out playing OK, but soon started doing the abrupt stop, then boxy fade to the next scene, that seems to be a problem with all DVD's that I've seen. OK, I figured it's because of the capability of doing hundreds of channels, so it has to wait to see if I'm gonna add another digit, but no - It does the blank screen, and several second lag for every change, even when you just press up, to scroll through the channels. At 4 hrs, it's mostly OK, but anything moving fast will look pixelated/boxy, too. I tried everything to free it up, and even tried to eject it, but no luck. Now, less than one week after hooking it up, I hit play, and after 30 seconds it seized up, and just got stuck on the DVD.
DVD records everything as digitized boxes - like an overblown photo, in the 6 hr. We bought this just before Christmas, and installed it in hopes of being able to watch DVDs, Videos, and record our old VHS tapes onto DVD's for the future.First, this is unnecessarily complicated to operate, and not at all intuitive. At this rate, it will take a week to scroll through all the channels.It plays VHS tapes OK, and it records VHS OK. We messed with it for 15+ minutes to try to get it to let go, but were ultimately forced to disconnect it.Needless to say, I will be returning it tomorrow. You type in channel 10, the screen goes blank for a few seconds, then it goes to channel 10.
To the Store, NOT to LG.
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