Philips DVDR985 Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder and Player
pretty good machine
I'm very satisfied with the quality and ease of use.  The inputs and outputs are great.  Compatibility is also sweet.  The ability to set chapter marks around commercials, and then make those chapters &quot;hidden&quot;, thus skipped on playback, is also very nice, even though frame advance for mark setting is not as exact as I think it should be.<br />Title setting is a bit of a pain with just arrows, but it's alright.  Philips tech support helped me discover that RF output is pass-through only.  To see DVD Recorder output requires using one of the other generous outputs.  <br />Tech support also says there is no way to record via i.Link from PC.  That's an unfortunate limitation that brought my rating down from a 5.  Although they said it wouldn't work, I was able to get signal through a Firewire DV Bridge once.  I've not been able to duplicate that success since.  I know it's possible from a hardware standpoint, but firmware/software limitations are not supporting it.