Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Problematic at best

I own it. If mine is typical, don't buy it. I've had mine about a year and it just hit the garbage can.Initially, it was a problem because the default display isn't on an output my TV or cable box default to. This meant blindly pushing buttons until I acciently found the secret handshake to get the menu on my display. It holds it there until a power failure, and then we start over again.Then, over time, it started having trouble recognizing blank disks. Then it would recognize the disk and record, but not be able to finalize the recording (sometimes, even though it showed a FINALIZE FAILURE, the disk would be OK. Sometimes not.) Finally, it just refused to recognize, record or finalize.All-in-all, this is the flakiest bit of electronics I've ever purchased. It's now at the big recycler in the sky, hopefully to become cell phone parts.