Philips DVDR615 DVD Recorder
I took it back to the store for a refund
I bought (and returned) a Philips DVDR615/17.  (...)<br />It was a beautiful machine and it has a lot of nice features.  It made beautiful disks...when it made disks.<br />I usually record on DVD+RW and I should have had a clue that things weren't going to go well when there was a preprinted form in the box telling me how to wipe a +RW disk, if the machine suddenly decided it couldn't read it.<br />Well, it decides that A LOT!  You might go back to add an hour at the end of 4 other hours that this same machine already recorded...and suddenly it can't read it.<br />But, more disgusting, on just about every disk (and I tried several brands), it went &quot;disk error&quot; after a couple of minutes of recording and ruined the disk.  If you erased it (using the secret disk wiping procedure) and started over, it usually recorded.  But, that's not too practical if you want to timer record.  In fact, I NEVER made a successful timer recording. (And, even if you got a non-timer recording, the machine might just forget how to read that same disk a few minutes later.)<br />I tried contacting Philips support to see if there was a firmware flash or something to correct this, but the only response I got referred me to an 800 number that turned out to be &quot;Out of Warrantee Support&quot;, who wanted to charge me (...) just to talk to me, even though I had only had the goofy thing a few days.  I think not.<br />So, back to the store it went.  <br />If that one problem didn't exist, this would've been a great machine, so if they ever fix it, somebody let me know.