Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Mixed review

I bought this product one year ago. I found it simple to use and have gotten alot of use out of it. After about 6 months, it stopped reading discs but I fixed that problem by buying a laser cleaner CD. Now at the one year mark, the machine is starting to stop recognizing new, blank discs altogether, which is very frustrating as I can no longer rely on it to record properly. It is time to retire this machine as a recorder and put it "out to pasture" to just play dvds. I have read numerous other reviews that give this model very low marks. It is time to buy a different brand of dvd recorder. As I said, I've gotten alot of use out of this model for the price. If you do buy one, don't expect it to last very long.