Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not satisfied with the product

The device freezes up almost 50% of the time, mostly with "failed to record" errors. This has been happening frustratingly close towards the end of a recording. So, after waiting for almost an hour I have to re-do the recording all over again. I have a Sony mini-DV camcorder and I am using Sony's DVD as recommended. Link to the recorder is firewire. Another observation... sometimes I need to close the lcd screen on the camcorder in order for the recorder to detect the input signal. Will probably return it unless Sony tech support can come up with a solution. Quite disappointing...