Editorial Review:Product Description:LiteOn's mission is to consistently meet or exceed its customers' expectations by providing solutions with outstanding performance, competitiveness, and punctuality.
Customer Reviews
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Buggy and frustrating
I bought it because it was cheap. The machine has lots of bugs:
- Locks-up
- Gains time every day, making the clock wrong
- Won't always record
- Menus are difficult to read
- Subtitles appear by default, and I have to turn them off every time
- Poor range on remote control
There were a couple of good features though:
- Multiple inputs
- Direct DV port in front, makes for easy transfer from camcorder
- Cheap
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Liteon Model LVW-5101 AVOID !
* Complete junk ! problems: Worked good for about 2 days then I noticed the unit would not come on when the power button was pressed.
I finally got the unit to power up by unplugging it from the wall outlet. This has to be done every time you want to use it. Problem number 2 is the Subtitles are always on unless you turn them off. Problem 3 remote range is very limited no more than 5 or 6 feet away from the unit and the remote fails to work. I returned my first unit and got another one, but it started to have the exact same problems. Also I have a friend who purchased this same unit and now he is having the same problems too. Avoid this peice of junk ! ...
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Stay away from Lite On
Complete piece of junk. Playback is erratic. Never recorded even ONCE - it just sits and clicks incessantly after you're done "recording" as it tries to write to the disc. Someone suggested upgrading the firmware - I followed instructions and it can't read the CD-ROM with the firmware either. Tried calling tech support and was put on hold - after 45 minutes of listening to Vivaldi I gave up. Avoid products from this company at all costs - I'm finally reconciled to kissing my $100 something bucks goodbye...
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About what I expected...
* Well, I waited until it died, and it took 17 months, as I purchased it in September of 2004. I don't want to be negative, but I didn't want to review it after only a couple of problems, or only after a month of successful operation, either.
This unit did OK for the time it worked. Let's face it, very few electronics last for more than a couple of years, nowadays. In this case, we had no issues as a DVD player (and still don't), other a slightly dark picture, but 90% of the DVD +R's we insert for recording now issue a \"Write Fail\" message.
We used it heavily as a player and recorder during that time, so the money we saved by recording family movies payed for itself. All in all, it was about what I expected.
Now I am off to WalMart for another $89 model... ...
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Ilo let me down big-time
MY Ilo recorder/ player worked great the first 3 or 4 times. Then it started rejecting blank discs. Then it started rejecting discs IT had formatted and recorded. Last of all, to make it totally useless, It rejected my store-bought movies. I will never buy thie brand again.
