Philips DVDR75 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder
Poor quality, poor customer service:  Buy something else.
It seems that Philips is having significant quality problems with its DVD products (see Amazon customer reviews of the DVD727 for more details), and the DVDR75 is no exception.<br />While it certainly does what it claims, the unit suffers from some irritating flaws.  First, every once in a while, the unit will record everything in black and white.  Second, when playing a DVD, the unit will occasionally freeze-up, leaving the DVD running, but the unit will not respond to any commands other than the power-off button.<br />Given my past experiences with Philips customer service (i.e., bad customer service), I didn't even bother calling to ask about getting the problems fixed.<br />The user manual is very thick, but that's only because Philips uses big margins and lots of pictures.  The manual is not very detailed and often leaves more questions than answers.  The user interface is very cryptic, using lots of unintuitive symbols and little text.<br />While the unit is certainly good looking and can record DVDs as advertised, given the other low-cost choices, I would pass on the Philips unit.  Consider the Gateway DVD Recorder, which is cheaper and has a much, much better user interface.