Philips DVDR985 Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder and Player
Disk Error!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have had this unit for a year and a half now.  I have installed every firmware patch that comes out I'm not up to ff12x I have forced down to remove all patches and reinstalled them. Sometimes the machine works sometimes it does not get the good old message &quot;Disk Error&quot;  if you look at the disk you see rings light then dark looks like a bullseye target.  I have changed several times the brand of blank +R disk I would use but I still waste 1 blank for every 1 I burn.  What has worked to help is now if I want to burn a disk I burn to a DVD+RW if that gets a disk error then I can erase it and start over. Once I do get a good disk I then have to put it on the computer and burn a copy of it to a +R disk.  This has helped but I agree with everyone else Philips should recall this piece of crap machine. I went out the other day and bought an Aspire DVD+R machine.. returned it the next day it was worse than the Philips.  I just ordered a Philips DVDR75 from Amazon I sure hope it is better than the 985 has been.  I should have learned my lesson buying  a Philips but I guess I did not.. At least the DVDR75 only costs about half what the 985 costs me when I got it..<BR>Ok Last chance Philips....