Philips DVDR985 Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder and Player
Okay To Buy ..But Beware of the Laser Problems
If you have one of these unit and it works okay then you're in luck. Although the DVD985's are technically sound.. all the units I had failed after a couple of months of use. and I paid $999. dollars for it at the time.. The problem occurs when the Laser goes bad and all your +R disk will become corrupted, ruined and then the  +RW's  will not read and then its .. off to the repair shop and that's what happen to me, 3 different times.. before I gave up. These units were put on the market before adequate Quality Assurance was done.  You may be better off buying the DVDR75 as it's a later model and cheaper and may be improved over the Model 985.  The main value of the Philips DVD Recorders are that have may be the best units using the + R and +RW Formats.  This is all true and correct to my knowledge. Good Luck. By the way I did have a DVD75 and had to return it also because the quality of the HQ Rec/Playback circuits were bad.. having said that I still planed to buy a another because it has 1 distinct advantage over the others I have seen thus far and that is-- Philips has simpler unique editing functions for my type of situations . Good Luck if you buy a Philips DVD product.