Philips DVDR77 DVD Recorder
Philips sucks
Funny I read so many bad reviews for this item.  <br /> <br />I bought a Philips recorder a couple of years ago, and after only a month it started acting up. It would record, but then it would freeze up during the updating menu part at the end. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn't. It will give me some sort of error, then the only thing it will let me do is shut it off, and turn it back on. Like I said, sometimes the disc would be ok, other times it was nothing more than a coaster.  <br /> <br />Now, after only a few years (back then it cost over $1000), and maybe a total of 25 DVDs over that time frame, it now won't even recognize a disc. I put in a movie, it says \\"no disc\\". I put in a blank disc, it says \\"no disc\\". It is now a $1000 piece of junk. <br /> <br />Philips can go suck it in my opinion. I will never buy another Philips product. I had thought maybe my problems were just because it was still fairly new technology when I got mine, but as I read these reviews, I can see they still have no clue what they are doing.  <br /> <br />I am now looking at a Panasonic. Funny, all it's reviews are positive. <br /> <br />See ya Philips.