Philips DVDR985 Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder and Player
Burn Your Tapes
For all the accursed pains you've had to endure using tape, you owe it to yourself to join the prison break. I wanted to collect episodes of 'First Person', which are only half an hour each. I put a bunch of them on tape then got this and thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Each episode is a separate chapter, you can even pick the picture that shows in the index, when you go to queue up the recording, you can press the record button repeatedly for each 30m of recording. The unit will turn itself off automatically after that. If you do end up with extra time on the end of the recording, it's easy to discard it.<br />My only caveats about this are two: 1. the unit itself is slightly cheesoid, not what you'd expect for a g. 2. I bought some [inexpensive] DVD+RW discs and when I tried to divide a chapter it threw up a disc error. Straight recording on those discs has worked fine though and the quality is still great.<br />Exciting Development: I changed the settings to not autoinsert chapters and now when I'm done putting something on DVD that I got off of TiVo, I quickly scan through it and find the 4 or 5 spots where it returns from commercial and insert chapters so when I'm rerunning it (or sending a copy to a friend), you can just hit the next chapter button when a commercial comes up. Love this thing!!<br />Well, no more. DISC ERRORs were coming up all the time, so I sent it in and got it fixed, then it worked again for a long time. Now, all the sudden, back to no worky. The biggest nightmare ever.