Philips DVDR75 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder
this machine stinks
this is not even the original machine i got the first one i got was the dvd 985 but that died in a year and a half. i had purchased an extended warrenty for a hefty price and philips replaced the machine with the dvdr75 which only cost a few more dollars than the warrenty. this too has died on me. first i had problems that it wouldnt recognise the blanks anymore, which i found out from a disc manufacturer that i had to update my firmware which philips never mentioned. ihad to call philips and request a upgrade disc then wait for it to come in the mail. next shortly after that was repaired the machine started overheating frequently, a red bar would come up at the bottom of the screen if i tried to record for more than three hours and if i didnt stop recording right away the disc would be ruined, as a result a have a lot of first halfs of shows. now the latest problem is finalizing, over three quarters of the discs i make are wrecked in the finalizing process and rendered unplayable. if i had known all of these problems would happen i would never have bought this companys product in the first place. i think philips would be better off spending less money on slick advertising and work on developing better quality products