Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Useless, doesn't record

After setting up a timer recording, the recording didn't start. There was a "failed" message in the recording set up. The manual said that was because there was either no disc or no space on the disc. After trying several properly formatted discs and getting the same "failed" message, I finally pushed the Record button on the front to see if the unit would record without the timer. A message popped up saying the content was protected and couldn't be recorded. It was an ordinary prime-time network show tuned through an antenna - don't have cable. I got the same results with several other shows... and commercials! I purchased a DVD recorder primarily to record shows to watch later, and this unit doesn't allow that.