Magnavox MDR513H/F7 HDD and DVD Recorder with Digital Tuner - REFURBISHED

Magnavox MDR513H/F7 HDD and DVD Recorder with Digital Tuner - REFURBISHED
alaScore 89

34 reviews

May, 2013

  • No negative mentions yet

alaTest has collected and analyzed 34 reviews from magazines and websites. Reviewers really like the value for money. The usability also gets good comments.

design, usability, value for money

We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other DVD Players the MAGNAVOX MDR513H/F7 HDD and DVD Recorder with Digital Tuner, Black is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 89/100 = Very good quality.

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Amazon review summary for the MAGNAVOX MDR513H/F7 HDD and DVD Recorder with Digital Tuner, Black

 

alaTest has collected and analyzed 20 user reviews of the MAGNAVOX MDR513H/F7 HDD and DVD Recorder with Digital Tuner, Black from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 3.0/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.5/5 for other products on Amazon.com.

60% of reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

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Magnavox/Sunai Corp should not be in business

 

My unit broke after 92 days of use. We had a power outage and it never turned back on. Callled customer service and they advised me to contact local repair shop. After driving there for 35 minutes and dropping off the unit local repair shop said they...

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Good product - poor insturction manual - tech support terrible

 

Product itself exceeding my expectations.. The instruction manual very hard to understand.. Call tech support & when I finally talked to the tech .. there English skills were very limited.. & when they could not answer my questions. they went to there...

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Magnavox recorder

 

Good! I had a Toshiba dvd recorder, its OK, but it records to dvd so tis limited to what the disc can hold (depending on the resolution you record at). this can record lots, even at top resolution. It works fine. No complaints.

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Big savings

 

We did away with our cable and got this dvr so that we could record and play regular tv shows when we had time to watch them. It's been about a $100 savings a month. We decided to go this way because after a brief review we found out that most of the...

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POWER OUTAGE INFO- for this NICE recorder

 

I'm sure some have noticed by now, if you had a power outage the unit will not turn on with remote or button on unit. DON'T Despair and DON'T WASTE dollars on a repair until you try this first. Simply unplug the unit for 10-15 minutes, then replug it...

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MDR513H/F7

 

This unit has a defective DVD tray door - it's off one of its hinges. It also has an intermittent problem with reading and finalizing DVD's. Although if I wait and try again later, it will work. I shouldn't be too negative because I have done a lot of...

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Worked fine for eight months!

 

I bought my MDR515H/F7 in mid January 2012. It worked fine for about 8 months. In mid September 2012 there was a short power outage in my area. At the resumption of power, my other electronics plugged into the same surge protector continued to work...

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Won't turn on

 

It did a great job recording and playing back. Unfortunately, it died totally less than 1 year old. It won't turn on.

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poor construction

 

The clock in this device is off by several minutes per day, worse than the cheapest digital watch. It will not synch to local broadcast times. Now the audio and video tracks of digital recording are out of synch, or the audio is missing entirely. This...