Philips DVDR985 Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder and Player
Great machine
I have owned this recorder for about four months.  During this time I have transferred roughly 20 home videos of my family to DVD, which is what I purchased it for.  I did get &quot;Disk Error&quot; once, on a very poor quality tape that had loads of green color in it (long story).  Other than that, it has performed flawlessly.  I have sent DVD's of the family to my parents and they play on their machine just like a store bought disk.  They play on my other DVD at home, plus they even play on a portable DVD unit I recently purchased for long vacation trips.  When we are not watching or recording a DVD on it, we are playing audio CDs on it.  So far, no problem to report in any area.  Yes, the manual is not great and it does take some head scratching to get it all hooked up with the televsion, VCR, receiver, cable, etc.  However, you can eventually figure it out.  I wish they would have designed it with an internal hard drive, my only complaint.  But then the cost would probably be higher as well.  The program coding is great.  I tape television shows all the time on a DVD +RW disk.  <BR>I have no complaints regarding the performance of this machine.