Review on 📀 Improved SEO-Friendly Lite-On AllWrite LVW-5005 DVD/CD Recorder by Eric Montgomery

This is one of a very limited number of Lite-On models that can be firmware upgraded to record ANY analog signal brought to them by any DVD player, any VCR, NOTHING. Once this is done, your recorder will never refuse to record certain material ever again. If you can watch it on your TV, you can record it. They are no longer manufactured, even if the device fails, it is worth repairing. Thousands upon thousands are in use now, and NEW is rarely available. When one of these drives fails, a large percentage is due to drive failures, often caused by the stress of using non-manufacturer-recommended drives in the drive. The latest DRIVE ONLY firmware enables DVD burning at higher speeds and should greatly extend the life of the device. A seller on another website introduced this model as a MULTI-SYSTEM WORLD DVD RECORDER or something similar and sold it for $449.99. They run on any household electricity available worldwide and can easily be made region independent. They even output either PAL or NTSC (you choose it in the SETUP menu) depending on which is used in your country. The TV tuner is NTSC on those sold in the US and Canada and PAL on European countries. Be careful as some sellers list the LVW-5005X and LVW-5005XS as 5005s. Others even listed LVW-5115GHC+ under the LVW-5005 heading. NONE of these machines are as popular as this one. Also, most of the issues that people complain about in their reviews are related to drive compatibility. If people do a little research, they will find that the new DVDs are designed to burn at high speeds to keep up with computer burners that burn faster over time. Standalone DVD recorders only record once - in "real time". A simple DVD drive firmware update will solve the vast majority of disc compatibility issues. It's not fair to blame a manufacturer for a product that can't simply be burned onto a DVD that wasn't even on the market when it was first sold. They do their best to keep up. By the way, if you insert a blank CD, the device will ask you on the screen whether you want to create an audio CD, VCD or SVCD. The previous reviewer has not read the instructions.