JVC warranty not worth much

I bought this DVD burner 8 months ago. I used it about 10 times, and then it stopped recognizing disks and wouldn't work at all. It was still within the 1 year warranty, so I called the company to get directions on how to send it in for repairs. I was informed that I'd still have to pay $80-90 labor, because the product is only warranted for labor for 3 months. When you include postage to send the product in, the cost to get JVC to repair it would be about $100, or more than half the cost of the product new. Online reviews I've read since I bought this indicate that this malfunction happens a lot. I thought readers would like to know that the warranty is basically useless, unless you want to gamble $100 on a less than $200 product that will probably break again when you get it home. I will ask more questions and do more research when I go to get another DVD burner, and it won't be a JVC product.