Goodmans GDVD300R

I have only had this DVD video recorder GDVD301R Xpro G-00142426451 just over 12 months, bought from Argos in Newton Heath, Manchester. I return it to the store and they said they had stopped stocking this model, and refused to have it looked at.

Bought the Goodmans GDVD300R DVD recorder a year ago and now refuses to 'Finalise' any discs. This means you can play your footage back on this DVD player but nothing else. This renders it almost useless. Who wants to burn holiday footage or your fave TV program if you can only ever ever ever watch it on this DVD player.

Well we have just bought the Goodmans GDVD300R DVD recorder off Ebay. It cost us £45 new with £15 delivery, and it is one of our best buys ever. Yes it has a few bad points like being hard to set up and a little noisy, but the good points totally outweigh the bad points. It looks good, records well, has lots of really good features including video plus, so you can record your favourite programs.

I would definitely recommend this DVD recorder.

Goodmans GDVD300R - Purchased from Makro in January 2005, had little use (maybe once a fortnight) as recording onto VCR is faster and produces better results. Recording on anything other than best quality gives grainy copies, and the machine is noisy.

Having lost my receipt, the unit now fails to function using either remote or surface switches. I don't know what Goodmans think of this as they won`t acknowledge or return telephone calls or e-mails. After approx 10 hours use the unit is scrap so the "cheap" machine works out as expensive as going to the cinema. You have been warned!