Philips DVD-750 DVD Player

Pros: Combo player, low price, small design.
Cons: Stupid remote, some usability errors.

Introduction: Amazing how far technology has come. It has only been 9 years since I bought my first VCR, 4 years since my first DVD player – and now I own a VCR/DVD combo the Philips DVD750VR. Whereas both my old VCR and DVD were in exc ...

Pros: Easy Setup, Reasonable Price, Easy To Learn To Use
Cons: Recording Quality Isn't That Great Yet

I recently got into the DVD recorder aspect to replace my VCR for recording my favorite movies & ...

Pros: Plays all 4 commercial DVD formats, inexpensive, simple
Cons: Silver color, Non-ergonomic remote, (BREAKS)

UPDATE - MARCH 30, 2004 Ok, what I thought was a great thing, turns out to be J-U-N-K. I guess I should have known when purchasing something from Wal-Mart like that. I had the unit for like 32 days and it broke. From the noise it was making, ...

Pros: Low cost, quality manufacture, and ease of use (eventually)
Cons: Very poorly written manual

The DVDR75 was chosen over others because it records in DVD+R & DVDR+RW, it is relatively inexpensive, and it is not built in China (i.e. is not of poor quality). The Firewire interface is also a benefit for interfacing with a digital camcorder (our next ...

Pros: Price. Discs compatible with other players. 2-1/2 hr. record mode. DVD+R/RW format. Firewire interface.
Cons: No fast forward on remote. Customer service may be required to learn some functions.

I returned two cyberhome 1500's due to faulty editing experiences. While the cyberhome was cheaper and had easier menu navigation, the Philips has performed 110% better and was worth figuring out the directions. It helped that I'd been broken in with ...

Pros: Good player and good recorder with M1 and M2 quality.
Cons: Wrong expectations in documentation : M3 is NOT better then SVHS. It's VHS at best.

I wanted to by a DVD recorder for two main reasons. First of all to record my DV camcorder tapes and secondly to have my SVHS recorder replaced. The first part went fine. Using M1 (High Quality 1h on a 4.7GB DVD disk) or 2M (2hour standard play) gave me ...

Pros: Plus DVD format. Easy one touch recording. Quality picture. Ilink/firewire port.
Cons: Menus, Remote, and Manual.

The unit I purchased was 399.00 and was made in China (AVOID UNITS MADE ELSEWHERE). Quality of recordings is excellent. Easy one touch recording. Automatically builds its own Menu and chapters when recording (all you have to do is title). I would ...

Pros: Preferred format DVD+R+RW Recording quality reasonable Ease of use Reasonable but limited editing
Cons: Durability, Durability, Durability

As an early adopter I purchased Philips DVDR-985 only to suffer the repeated failures that product was so noted for. It is now a $900 door stop. Believing that Philips had the time and skills to overcome this edsel of the DVDR industry, and following ...

Pros: Easy to use
Cons: lots of functions that I haven't figured out yet

Like most people, I was searching for the perfect gift to get my family this Christmas. Again, like most, I don't have a ton of cash to spend. Instead of purchasing a computer, trampoline or trip to the Bahamas, I decided that I would buy a DVD...

Pros: Nice looking face plate, RF in/out for my old TV
Cons: Neither half of the combo works let's call that a "reliability" con

Yep, not only did half of the combo let me down, but so did the other half. Bought it because it would be only one price of equipment on my entertainment center, it had an antenna out for my old TV, and it looked nice. Shortly after the warranty ...

Pros: Numerous recording speeds, great picture, component video outputs and progressive scan!
Cons: Vague remote wording, but not any big deal.

I purchased this machine, and was up and running within 10 minutes, simple install even with a several component home theater system. Others are talking about the quality of the video, let me say that garbage in equals garbage out. You CANNOT record ...

Pros: An abundance of inputs to satisfy most applications.
Cons: Useless manual. Navigating functions confusing. REMOTE WORTHLESS

I've had this recorder over a month and cannot agree more with most of the reviews as to how good it works. If your source of video is good and you keep the the speeds at 2.5 or less you get a great picture. One of the reviewers made a comment that the ...

Pros: great
Cons: none

I'm a regular-joe movie buff: 10-year-old TV (no fancy
video inputs), sound through a cheap boombox. * Total track time display: Shows the total track ("movie")
duration on-screen, right next to elapsed time. * Well-designed remote...

Pros: dvd instead of tapes, better recordings, ability to hide chapters (you won't see commercials)
Cons: sophisticated component, not for people who can't program VCRs

I've read a lot of the reviews here and it seems a lot of people are having problems using this machine. If you have problems programming a VCR then yes you will have problems using this recorder. However if you are the least bit computer literate or can ...

Pros: None--a $500 disaster
Cons: Rotten product, pathetic customer "care"

I bought my Philips DVDR-75 expecting to archive my video tapes, and to archive vacation videos, plus use it like a VCR to record favorite tv shows. It has been a year of beating my head on the wall with Philips ridiculously bad support and customer ...