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I work straight night-shift so without a faithful recorder I would miss anything I wanted to watch in prime-time. It's been faithfully serving the role once held by a VCR in time-shifting. I simply set it and forget it and it records over and over on DVD+RWs which I can then erase and use over again the next day (either individual titles or the entire disc - at my option). I've been using this DVD-R75 recorder for 2.5 years with only the occasional coaster while recording to various brands of DVD+Rs. I especially like that I'm able to select a screen shot for the thumbnail in the menu and also write whatever title I want for the program.In the title I called it a workhorse for a reason. The only minor thing I've run into is that sometimes it will overwrite titles on DVD+RW discs if I'm not careful to position the disc where a 'FREE TITLE' exists. This machine seems to like the Fujufilm DVD+Rs best. I don't think this is a problem with the machine but is inherent in the DVD+RW format since files can't be marked as protected on them.I purchased this machine on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving 2004) and have never regretted it.Even without using the component outputs the picture still looks better than from a top-of-the-line VCR and with Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound.I've also used the firewire port (iLink) to download video files from my digital camcorder with great success and no degradation in quality.
Philips products are terrible and their customer service is even worse. It crashed while watching DVDs. It never worked correctly. I also had color issues with one of their TVs. Every time I tried to contact them, they would have me speak to someone in India and I would only get software upgrades.
This product has also been discontinued. It would make it too bright. We purchased this product new for $500.00. It's also extremely sensitive, so if your video is snowy, it may not record it or skip parts. I wasted much of my money and time.
The video to DVD transfer was never true from the originals. I hope you won't do the same.
They HAD to know of these problems. etc. I am sick to think of the time I have lost. (read other's complaints) and you have a real loser here.I bought my first Phillips tape recorder in 1968. All I have is junk to show for it. And yes, I did everything right (finalizing the disks etc).Add to this the terrible remote control with rubbery, no-feedback keys that often don't work; little provision for using the deck for playback, etc. BEWARE: DVDs are non-standard & incompatibleI am bitterly disappointed with the Philips DVDR-3400 recorder, and suppose that all of its line has the same problems.I did not find out until I had burned 300+ DVDs that the disk directory structure created by these Phillips machines is defective.
are LOST.AND most PC-based DVD players and other software won't handle the disk, so if you wrote your home movies to disk for long-term archiving, you're out of luck.I don't know how a company the size of Phillips can release such a piece of crap. The main title on the disk you make will appear to "play" on your home DVD player. but ALL of the post-recording edits made (cutting out parts you didn't want etc). I will never buy another Phillips product.
I am going to sale the lame thing in my garage sale for probably $25.00.that is $325.00 less than what I bought it for. Not true. It's worthless.but another brand.
To be honest, I cannot tell you how many times or hours I have wasted with these people and got nothing. I will never ever in this lifetime own any other product by Philips again. I have owned this recorder since October 2003 and it worked wonderful for about 12 months or so.
Either way, I have tried calling customer support prior to the warranty period being offer, and they insisted that I have received a replacement unit. Right after the one-year warranty mark was over.it started to shut itself off. Sometimes it would go as much as 50 minutes before shutting off and other times, it shuts off the first couple of minutes.
Very bad customer service.
I just got word from the repair store today and the laser lens is shot and $350 to repair, needless to say what my decision was. They spend 10 minutes getting your personal information and 3 minutes on diagnosis. Less than 3 years of use and now I have a VERY expensive DVD player. All in all I can't recommend the machine or the company. (while that lasts but who knows for how long). Customer "no service" at Philips could seem to care less. Well from reading the other reviews I can only add the same ole same ole.
etc. Purchased in Nov 2003 worked pretty well until 2 months ago.Seems like we are reaching the max use range on this product. Disk errors started cropping up, would not read the disk it just wrote too etc. I may make the same mistake on a different manufacturer or model but I won't make it again on a Philips product.
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