Philips DVDR985 Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder and Player
Dead after 12months
This recorder, which I paid a bundle for, worked fine for a while. Now it is a boat anchor. Also during its good days, I found it very bulky to use, removed it from the living room and put in the bedroom because of how it interferes with normal tv viewing. It sort of takes over your system,must be on all the time and interferes with normal operations.  <br />Anyway, now it is useless. It just says &quot;No Disc&quot;, no matter what I put in there, commerical disk, blank dvd, even lens cleaning dvd  &quot;No Disc&quot;  <br />I talked to Philips support whose only suggestion was to send me a dvd that had new firmware on it but of course it would not be able to read it, so its useless. Other than that, I am supposed to find some way to pack it up, pay to ship it off somewhere and pay lord knows what ungodly price to have it fixed.  No thanks.<br />I can't seriusly recommend it and would in fact try to discourage anyone from buying it due to my experience. Perhaps you would have no problem with it, I don't know. I just know I wasted $600 on it a year ago, deeply regret having purchased it and will never buy Philips again because of it.  I am now going to buy a Sony.