Pros: Simple recording, good sound and picture quality, DVD+ has wide acceptance Cons: Cost, durability, complicated menus/interface, poor customer service
I'm a technology freak. I drool over the latest and greatest. I can only plead insanity for purchasing this Philips DVDR in January. $600 is a lot of money for my student budget, but I had just purchased a TiVo and wanted to get the movies off of TiVo ...
Pros: Use of this machine proved there are no pros. Cons: Phillips does not have the bugs out of this one. Try another brand.
Those of you new to the DVD recording world will be pleased to know that the Phillips DVD-R985 does everything it is supposed to do in a format that is more user friendly than the DVR-R format. Although there as been some talk on the net about ...
Pros: Worked well right out of the box. Stable. Produces DVDs with high quality video Cons: Lousy manual, confusing and hard to use remote, and baffling on-screen menus
I bought one of these machines from Circuit City in June 2003. Paid about $ 270. It was in close competition with a comparably-priced recorder (DVD-R/-RW) from Panasonic. I've been waiting a long time for a DVD recorder to transfer 8mm video onto. Be ...
Pros: Sleek design, good menu-making ability Cons: Format incompatible with -R DVD; replay of VHS and Betamax war
This unit was the first DVDR I tried. Keep in mind in Spring 2003 will be replaced by DVDR-80 in USA. This unit (985) is called the 880 in Europe. Also called the 985A in America.
Some background for those new to DVD recording first, because...
Pros: Fairly versatile, seems to work better with RW's. Cons: That annoying Disk Error message. Never a clear reason what causes it to appear.
Original intent was to transfer all of my old VHS and Hi-8 home movies onto DVD. Figured that if I could get the machine to do all 28 of my more precious tapes, anything else would be just fine. Actually worked out well. Only one coaster out of ...
Pros: * DVD plus R/RW formats have highest compatibility
* Excellent picture quality
Cons: * Earlier firmware a bit buggy; expect some quirkiness
The DVDR985 is one of the best investments I have made. When I originally bought it I didn't think it would be something I would use much, but it turns out that I use it all of the time to record TV programs that I'd like to keep. My VCR (which is a...
Pros: Easy disk editing when it worked. Cons: Too selective on Disk media/speed, premature failure.
I, too, have had several errors with the Philips DVDR985 unit. Like others, it worked flawlessly during the warranty period. Thankfully, I opted for an extended warranty when I initially purchased my unit. It stopped recording to +R disks. After ...
Pros: Nice front panel display Cons: What a total piece of garbage!
Destroys all your disks as it makes them!
When I got this recorder 2 years ago for $700 I was so excited. It had component inputs, firewire, audio meter and so on. Over time my love affair went very sour and the recorder divorced me. I soon had Red disk error messages flashing as I recorded. ...
Pros: Works for about a month Cons: 800$ paperweight and customer dis-service robots are criminals
Philips/Magnavox is horrible. Look at the Cnet reviews for my broke DVDR985 recorder. Look at Ebay for all the 50$ broke recorders. I paid 800$ for a piece of junk. People are fed up with this thing and have moved to better stuff. The firmware ...
Pros: Good menus. Good picture quality Cons: Poorly manufactured. Philips walks away at warranty end even when unit is a lemon.
I purchased my unit 03-Mar-2003. It has been repaired two times since then by Philips under warranty. Now it is broken again. My unit stopped working the first time after only a few uses. From the first DVD I recorded I had issues. It played back a ...
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