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3 - Setting the timer record for the tv only works sometimes, leaving me very frustrated when I miss my favorite shows when they are on too late for me. It plays DVD's just fine, I agree it is a bit slow as others have mentioned for the loading and such, but not a big deal. 2 - The DVDR freezes up sometimes, to the point I have to pull the plug and start over. You can't just turn off the edit menu and keep going.This DVDR works fine some of the time, but I need a product that works right all the time. I have set up an oscillating fan up that blows over my machine to keep it cool now. So I am very unhappy with this product as a recording device. In the times that it did work, there were skips and flutters in the recording when I played it back.4 - I tried the One Touch Record feature, the red light came on indicating it was recording, but when I woke up and checked the disc, it was blank.
Other times it would just stop in the middle of a recording.5 - Finally I tried recording manually, which usually works, hitting pause myself on the commercials, and when I finished, the disc was blank again.6 - When using the edit mode,to cut commercials, add chapter markers etc., you have to exit edit mode each time you make a change and it takes 2-5 minutes to return to the menu screen. I bought this as a replacement for an old DVD player, thinking the record feature might come in handy. I looked around the box, there is no evidence that this "burner" has a fan in it. Eventually I started using the record feature to record off old tapes and off tv, that's when I discovered all the problems. 1 - the machine would get very hot, I was afraid to use it for too long. I thought highly of Philips, but this product definitely did not live up to that expectation.
Everything on this one seems to take longer, as if the machine is thinking about things before it decides to do what you want it to do.3. I bought this model brand new at a Target store. If you want to use the DV-to-DVD feature -- that is, burning a DVD from a DV camera hooked up by Firewire -- be prepared to have LOTS of failed discs. Shame on Target for even stocking it.The way I figure it, Philips probably owes me about 50 blank DVDs. I've spent several afternoons just trying to get one smooth burn of a DV tape.I've had pretty good luck recording stuff directly from cable TV, but that's the only reliable feature. And if you think about it, that's the bare minimum that this machine is supposed to do.You'd think that Philips, with its solid history of DVD technology, would make a better machine. There are so many things wrong with this deck, but these are the three things that are most infuriating to me:1.
I've owned cheapo, $50 DVD players that operated more smoothly. If you burn a DVD on an Apple computer using iMovie, and you try to play it on this machine, it won't work.2. When you press the eject button, it takes literally about 5 seconds for the tray to come out. What a ripoff.
Don't do it. And now, after 8 months, every other disc I play makes a tremendous noise, as though it is off balance. Granted, this product records well, but everything seems to take forever. I stand around waiting for startup, I stand around even longer for Open/Close (that's what really gets to me). Shop around.
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