I bought this product as 'Used as New' Avides over - and - the product was also originally packed at - it was almost brand new at a great price. In the DVD-VHS combo already inexpensive. Was delivered in French - I had only to German Switch incl countries functions.. Program Search - Setting the time etc. Everything went very easy, as one would expect. Disturbing is in this giant remote control even the dual assignment of the keys and also difficult to identify the labels double occupancy - one needs to have good light in order to work with it. After about 1 hour, everything was set up and tested, except for the playback / recording on VHS mode. And that did not work !! (-.> After 7 sec recording / playback operation, the entire unit turned off) - That was very annoying for me because I had not bought the recorder for myself but for a friend away from me who lives 30km. Thus, as well as a lot of driving was connected - OK - for the next time I know about - before plugging VHS cassette and test :-)) Kudos to avides.de - Complaints went smoothly on return shipping label, and credit also Turboquick - communication perfectly, as Amazon.com.- Thank you!