Title: Haphazard results when archiving movies
Product review: I've owned the RCA DRC 8030 DVD recorder since June, and I'd have to say that roughly one third of all DVDs burned showed pixelation artifacts on playback. Sometimes the pixelation was minor, sometimes there would be large green horizontal streaks on the frame and actual simultaneous audio buzzing, but regardless, what I ended up with was a coaster in one-third of my recording attempts. The movie played right off the DVD recorder hard disk is perfectly clear, so that is not the problem. The problem seemed to be independent of film/program length or recording speed. Switching to DVD+R's has eliminated the problem completely, so I can only assume that the DVD-R was the source. I would therefore not recommend this product for archiving movies, at least for my particular brand of DVD recorder.
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