Philips DVDR615 DVD Recorder
Not a single bad burn to date
I picked up the Philips DVDR615 a week ago at a local Best Buy and love it.  I have burned 15 +R Disc and 1 +RW Disc without any problems.  All disc played in my Sony DVD players as well as a Dell and 2 Apple computers.  The Apple's seemed to like the disc to be finalized on one machine, didn't care on the other.  I purchsed this machine for one reason only and that is archiving shows off my Dish 921 HD PVR.  I have to downconvert from 1080i to 480i but the PQ at the 1X setting is excellent, not HD of course but certainly top quality DVD which is all we have until the release of any HD Recorders sometime next year ($$$$).    I disagree about waiting 6 months to post a review on something, by then you usually can't find it.  I would have preferred to purchase the Philips DVDR740 which has 5.1 Audio recording capability but for some reason I can't find one anywhere.  Lastly the reason I give this recorder 4 stars and not 5 stars is the fact that the OSD is not very intuitive and the owners manual is even worse.  Once you figure out how to operate it though its really quite simple.  I don't know why they couldn't explain it better in the manual.  The \\"monitor\\" key is your friend!  If anything changes with the reliability of this recorder  I will update or add to this review