Philips DVDR80 Progressive Scan DVD Player / Recorder
Betatesting for Philips' R&amp;D dept....
What a great player this could have been, with +r / +RW functions like on the fly editing, great video output quality, neat desin. Alas, in true Philips fashion, there are more bugs in this thing than your average Computer Game (there have been 2 new firmware released in July alone!). You cannot timer record from external inputs. External inputs (all of them!) become unselectable when the guide+ system takes over. It doesn't work with Satelite. Recorded material has an artifact bug in the overscan area that will display a thin blue moving line on PC DVD Players and most non-Philips Players (JVC, Panasonic) (looks like bad tracking on the good old VCR). Like the Q50 before it, this unit is just one compromise after the other to make it work. Stay away from it, stay away from Philips. Their support was useless. Too bad, it could have been a great system.