Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Useless for anything but playback, no recording functions

I bought this unit, and it is only for playing DVDs and VCR tapes. Sure, it WILL record...but not in any useful manner.There is no internal tuner. What this means is that you have to provide a line in from your tv or another source like a cable box. It does not, as most VCRs do, take a coaxial cable.To record, you have to set the tv to the channel you want. You can't change the channel on the tv, or the vcr will record the new channel instead.Also, there's no timer in the VCR. So you literally have to be standing there ready to hit RECORD when the show starts.The whole reason I have a VCR so I don't HAVE to be there when the show is on.I immediately boxed it back up, and it's going back. I'm giving it two stars only because I assume the DVD player works fine. I never even turned it on, so I don't know.