i agree, when you have a part of a combo go bad you toss the whole thing. or you can go pickup a 29.95 DVD player and plug it in teh AUX input. i had a JVC VCR a couple years ago would try to come on and then shut down. total cost of repair, including shipping was 100.00. i paid it the 1st time since this was a high end commercial grade unit that cost well over 500.00. the second time it did it i tossed it in teh garbage. if this had been and off the shelf unit, i would not even have thought about getting it fixed.

Some players are very finicky. I had to experiment with brands and format (R+, R-, RW+, RW-) before finding a surefire disk for my Toshiba player (several years old). Verbatim DVD-Rs for me, exclusively.

Behind our TV is an electrical outlet and a cable outlet (the one with the little round cable thing that you screw the cord onto. The tv is plugged into both. The cable outlet runs into the closet on the left side of the photo. That is where all of our things are hooked up. The cable is screwed into a box, in the closet, which is made for remote sensors. There are "outlets" on the box, which you use to connect your dvd/vcr/satellite/surround sound into. The remote sensor is installed near the bottom left of the fireplace. But you can also get a sensor that just peeks out from your tv...very small and not noticeable. There is a basic cable wire (very cheap) that runs from the sensor on the wall, into the closet and also plugs into that same box as everything else. Then there are small sensors that you place on your dvd player/satellite receiver/surround sound. They just stick on the front of them. Now you can control all of your items even though you can't see them, via the remote sensor. I'm sure this sounds completely confusing, because I'm not good at explaining things like this. All of our wires do run through the walls, but you can also run them through the attic if you need to, or just do small holes, or even just "hide" the necessary cords. We have just one cable cord that goes from the box behind the tv into the closet, and then one cable cord that goes from the remote sensor on the wall into the closet. So we only really ran 2 cable cords. We purchased our supplies from smarthome.com. The whole setup was under $100.

To each his/her own...but I wouldn’t bother. You can decide for yourself after reading this. I was given a JVC DVD Recorder in 2010 and used it successfully for approx 7 years. During the 8th year I began to experience many recording failures. My opinion is that the machine was responsible for some...but not all...of the failures. I particularly wanted to record movies from TCM. After several failures, I began to understand that my cable company had begun to prevent recording of certain channels. This was a deal-breaker for me. When the machine would no longer play discs I had previously recorded, I threw it away. I made an attempt to buy another DVD Recorder, but none of the ones I could find then had a built-in tuner like mine did. I would’ve had to find a third-party tuner to even attempt to make them work. Even if you do find something that you think will work for you, I advise that you check out possible copy-protection on whatever source/channel you plan to record from. Considering that you want to record GoT, I will be very surprised if you are able to do it. Please let me know if I’m wrong.