Philips DVDR985 Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder and Player
extended warranty not honored by Philips
I've had this from it's release, and I've made hundreds of discs, despite having all the problems reported by others. BUT BE WARNED, Philips is not honoring current extended warranties for this machine. My unit fails about once/year so I've always paid to keep the warranty active. I sent it in for repair just before the last warranty expired, and, at Philips repeated urging, purchased another year (I wanted it to last until Blu-Ray comes out). They then wrote to inform me that they no longer had any spare parts, and wanted me to take a cheap ($178 on Amazon) bottom-of-the-line machine as a replacement. I refused. And selling me a warranty extension THAT THEY ALREADY KNEW THEY WERE NEVER GOING TO HONOR is outright fraud. Deal with this company at your peril.  <br />  BTW, another undocumented feature of the machine is that it plays DVD-audio discs perfectly, better than my JVC which is supposed to play them. Use the optical out. There is also a more extreme forced finalization for trashed +R discs, using the 4 (or 5) button, using the procedure documented in another recent review here.  <br />