You get what you pay for

I bought this DVD player for my parents to bring them into the 21st century. I didn't want to spend a ton of money, so when I saw the Emerson for $99 - I jumped on it. Unfortunately, you get what you pay for. I bought it last year, and the prices have already gone down so much - that I could have a good one now for the same price.

Pros

It works OK as a basic vcr and dvd player. It does record and play vcr tapes, and it does play dvd (I guess I've been lucky that is hasn't broken yet - we don't play DVDs on it very much).

Cons

I don't like that it doesn't have a clock on it. The DVD player is pretty cheap - bare minimum. The remote control sucks. The placing of the buttons, and some of the buttons themselves, make not sense. It is almost impossible to learn how to set it to record - and once you figure it out, most of the time it doesn't record.