Philips DVDR985 Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder and Player
Problems develop over time and feature missing
Like many other reviewers I was very pleased with this product upon purchase.  That opinion gradually eroded until now I feel like I wasted my money.<br />The first major disappointment was that the unit is only capable of recording in stereo (L+R).  There is no digital audio input, it's two channel analog only.  So if you record a movie that's got 5:1 sound you're only going to get the left and right speakers.  But I decided I could live with that.<br />Yet, like another poster here, after several months I started seeing problems with the unit dealing with the recordable media.  Recordings quit with \\"disc error\\" messages, rendering the media (which still isn't exactly inexpensive - about $2 ea for quality media) trash.  I had heard that cheap DVD+R media can be a problem so I made sure to buy good product: Maxell, Verbatim, Memorex, Philips.  It hasn't made any difference.  What started as about a 10% failure rate has turned into 100%.  I haven't been able to successfully burn a DVD in over a month despite dozens of attempts.<br />I've contacted Philips customer service and applied their firmware updates which are supposed to correct this.  Doesn't help.  <br />Maybe you'll get lucky with your unit but I can't say as I'm very happy with mine.