Sylvania DVD Recorder DVR-90DF

Sylvania DVD Recorder DVR-90DF
Manufacturer: Sylvania
Product Type: CE

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Product Description
DVD-R/RW recording Up to 10 hours of recording time on a single disc DVD, DVD-R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW, and CD MP3 playback Front AV input and output, S-Video, component video and composite video outputs RF output for playback on TVs without AV jacks Title, scene and playlist creation Parental lock and trilingual OSD Search (max 40x), frame advance, and slow motion 18 11/16" W x 2 13/16" H x 12 1/2" D Includes remote

Average customer rating: 1.5

fell apart after one year
What happens after 6 months

HP Special Edition L2205NR 14" Notebook PC (AMD Turion 64 Mobile Processor ML-32, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, DVD+/-R/RW and CD-RW Combo Drive)

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard Office
Product Group: Personal Computer
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000EFEWB4

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The HP Pavilion notebooks provide you with the freedom to work, play or connect from anywhere, anytime. These notebooks offer the best value for money from the industry's leader in the production of superb mobile solutions. Don't sacrifice reliability for mobility - get both. Reliable and mobile, the HP Pavilion notebooks deliver the optimal blend of performance and portability. HP Pavilion notebooks bring you the best of both worlds with fast processors and capacious hard drives - everything you need to stay productive.

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fell apart after one year.......2006-12-05

Everything was ok (though like the prvious review, the laptop runs very hot) till the laptop was a year old. As soon as the warranty was over the laptop starting having issues. For about 3 months it would shut down on its own. Then it srted refusing to boot up on occasion. Finally it refused to do anything. The power light comes on, but nothing happens.

Prior to this I have bought HP for years. My most recent HP desltop also has issues. After almost 15 years of buying HP products. My two most recent experiences tells me to switch.
AVOID at all cost.

What happens after 6 months.......2006-05-31

I got this notebook last fall and was quite happy with it - for a reasonable price the configuration you get is much more better than the competitive laptops. I was thinking that this is a good deal that cannot be true - and I was right.

After half a year, now I clearly see the many SERIOUS disadvantages which are caused by LOWER QUALITY:

- it gets HOT - if you plan to work with a laptop on your lap (what of course is quite often), after a while it becames REALLY HOT and impossible to work with. You MUST put it away from your legs because you cannot stand the heat. And this happens EVERY TIME! Right now as well, you would never believe how bad it makes you feel - almost impossible to work with!

- LOW BATTERY LIFETIME - when the laptop was new, I got about 2-2.5 hours of lifetime. Now it stays for 1 hour!!! After a clean installation of OS, it is still 1 hour. Unbelievable when I consider that my friend with old ASUS laptop with INTEL mobile processor gets 3 hours at least. I am quite sorry but I have to admit that AMD really cannot do the same job in processors for notebooks. All marketing talks about TURION as the new "mobile" 64-bit processor of AMD that offers advantages for notebook users were just TRASH. Now I feel so ashamed because I am the only one that must recharge after one hour of working when working at school group projects.

- DVD ROM PROBLEMS - I have so much trouble reading DVD movies (even original new dvd movie sometime cannot be read and DVD stops playing) and writing DVD disks (errors and ruined blank medium), there is apparenty something wrong with this line of DVD-ROMs in the notebook because when looking for help on the Internet, I found that I am not the only one with those trouble! Plus, the new drivers that could maybe solve this problems were never made (TSSTCorp TS-L532R)- there is NO SUPPORT. And double layer writing? Don't even think it could work!!!!

- the plastic cover of the screen is cracked on two spots (right next to hinges). First I thought that I dropped the notebook somewhere and I don't remember, but the cracks look really specifically to be done from material stress - which does not come from falling on the ground or bad manipulation but solely from regularly opening the laptop!!! The material is just cheap and not designed to last for a long time.

If I were to choose now, I would prefer to pay a bit more or to pay the same price for worse configuratuion - because the real truth is that the quality of Livestrong is not really great. The worst thing is AMD TURION PROCESSOR - absolute disaster to choose for your laptop! I have always preffered AMD over INTEL but now I see that the quality gap is still very very considerable.

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