Philips DVD750VR Progressive-Scan DVD-VCR Combo
Watch out if you use home made DVDs
Took some trial and error, but finally got it connected to my plasma tv.  What I planned to use this for was for straightforward playback only.  No trying to tape things while playing on DVD, no taping of broadcasts, and no fancy editing.  Just pushing play.<br />The biggest surprise is that only original DVD-ROMs seem to play back without any issues.  Almost all of my DVD+R's (recorded on the Philips DVDR985 no less) start to skip about 20 minutes into the film.  I noticed that the same films on DVD+RW seem to play without any skips.<br />The skips look like simple jumps of a split second at first.  Then the image suddenly freezes up in a multi-cascade manner.  At first it happened when I was jumping ahead a chapter or two and when fast-forwarding.  When I wanted to watch a movie straight through it did it again.<br />It must be something with this model.  The same DVD+R discs play fine on my other Philips, on my Sony player, and on my computer.<br />Can't seem to find an answer as to why it skips so bad on DVD+Rs.