Philips DVDR75 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder

Philips DVDR75 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder

Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description
Capture, edit, and preserve precious memories with the Philips DVDR75 DVD player/recorder. Using the model's extensive inputs--including an i.Link digital video jack--you can transfer and assemble your most treasured camcorder footage, archive old video tapes, or burn video from a PC straight to high-capacity DVD (up to 6 hours per disc side using either DVD+R or DVD+RW). The unit's onboard Virtual Time Base Corrector ensures better-than-original copies from old video tapes.

You can also use the DVDR75 like a VCR, burning televised programs directly to disc using helpful VCR Plus+ programming data. Recording functions include safe record, one-touch record (OTR), track append, track divide, track erase, automatic/manual chapter marker insertion, disc write protection, favorite scene selection, index picture screen for instant content overview, and Selectable Index Pictures.

The DVDR75 is also a first-rate DVD player, featuring progressive-scan video outputs, Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround sound passthrough, MP3 CD playback (CD-R/CD-RW), and compatibility with most DVD media (including video-mode DVD-R and DVD-RW).

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVDR75 stands ready to deliver the full potential of DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

Top-of-the-line component-video inputs and outputs help minimize digital and line-scan artifacts on compatible advanced televisions, while composite- and S-video inputs and outputs bring compatibility with nearly any video component and television monitor. Audio inputs consist of two-channel analog jacks with 16-bit analog-to-digital conversion and Dolby Digital 2.0 audio compression (compression is non-defeatable).

Two sets of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each of RCA coaxial and Toslink optical) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. If you don't have a surround receiver or six-channel speaker setup, you can still make every movie night the ultimate experience: 3D Surround simulates surround sound through two speakers (even the stereo speakers on a TV).

What's in the Box
DVD recorder, remote control, batteries, user's manual (in English only), one blank DVD+RW disc, an AC power cord, a stereo audio interconnect, a composite-video cable, an S-video cable, and a coaxial RF antenna cable.

Product Description:
The DVDR75 allows consumers to quickly and easily transfer their favorite videotapes and broadcast programming to DVD. The DVDR75 features i.LINK for digital copying from camcorders, allowing consumers to digitally preserve their favorite past and future family moments. In addition, the DVDR75 features progressive scan for razor sharp pictures and top quality sound. Including VCRPlus for easy timer programming and up to six hours of video recording per side, the DVDR75 provides consumers a more affordable DVD Recording option.

Philips DVDR75 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder

Average customer rating:

DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT

BEWARE: DVDs are non-standard & incompatible

Save your money - DO NOT BUY!

Just like everyone else.

Everything dies, I guess...

Philips DVDR75 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder

Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Memorex 4.7GB 4x DVD+R Media (25-Pack Spindle)

Memorex 4.7GB 4x DVD+R 4.7GB (100-Pack Spindle)

Product Features:

Combination DVD player/recorder with camcorder-ready DV (i.Link), component-video, composite-video, and S-video inputs

Record from TV directly to DVD; up to 6 hours video recording per side (either DVD+R or DVD+RW)

Progressive-scan output for seamless, flicker-free images on high-definition and HD-ready TVs

Motion-compensated Noise Filter, Virtual Time Base Corrector (for better-than-original copies of old video tapes)

Favorite Scene Selection simplifies editing of your home movies; VCR Plus+ simplifies timer programming

ASIN: B000093US1

Amazon.com Product Description

Capture, edit, and preserve precious memories with the Philips DVDR75 DVD player/recorder. Using the model's extensive inputs--including an i.Link digital video jack--you can transfer and assemble your most treasured camcorder footage, archive old video tapes, or burn video from a PC straight to high-capacity DVD (up to 6 hours per disc side using either DVD+R or DVD+RW). The unit's onboard Virtual Time Base Corrector ensures better-than-original copies from old video tapes.

The DVDR75 is also a first-rate DVD player, featuring progressive-scan video outputs, Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround sound passthrough, MP3 CD playback (CD-R/CD-RW), and compatibility with most DVD media (including video-mode DVD-R and DVD-RW).

Product Description

The DVDR75 allows consumers to quickly and easily transfer their favorite videotapes and broadcast programming to DVD. The DVDR75 features i.LINK for digital copying from camcorders, allowing consumers to digitally preserve their favorite past and future family moments. In addition, the DVDR75 features progressive scan for razor sharp pictures and top quality sound. Including VCRPlus for easy timer programming and up to six hours of video recording per side, the DVDR75 provides consumers a more affordable DVD Recording option.

Customer Reviews:

DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.......2007-02-25

We purchased this product new for $500.00. It never worked correctly. The video to DVD transfer was never true from the originals. It would make it too bright. It's also extremely sensitive, so if your video is snowy, it may not record it or skip parts. It crashed while watching DVDs. Every time I tried to contact them, they would have me speak to someone in India and I would only get software upgrades. This product has also been discontinued. Philips products are terrible and their customer service is even worse. I also had color issues with one of their TVs. I wasted much of my money and time. I hope you won't do the same.

BEWARE: DVDs are non-standard & incompatible.......2006-11-29

BEWARE: DVDs are non-standard & incompatible

I am bitterly disappointed with the Philips DVDR-3400 recorder, and suppose that all of its line has the same problems.

I did not find out until I had burned 300+ DVDs that the disk directory structure created by these Phillips machines is defective. The main title on the disk you make will appear to "play" on your home DVD player... but ALL of the post-recording edits made (cutting out parts you didn't want etc.) are LOST.

AND most PC-based DVD players and other software won't handle the disk, so if you wrote your home movies to disk for long-term archiving, you're out of luck.

I don't know how a company the size of Phillips can release such a piece of crap. They HAD to know of these problems. I am sick to think of the time I have lost. All I have is junk to show for it. And yes, I did everything right (finalizing the disks etc).

Add to this the terrible remote control with rubbery, no-feedback keys that often don't work; little provision for using the deck for playback, etc. etc. (read other's complaints) and you have a real loser here.

I bought my first Phillips tape recorder in 1968. I will never buy another Phillips product.

Save your money - DO NOT BUY!.......2006-05-25

I have owned this recorder since October 2003 and it worked wonderful for about 12 months or so. Right after the one-year warranty mark was over...it started to shut itself off. Sometimes it would go as much as 50 minutes before shutting off and other times, it shuts off the first couple of minutes. Either way, I have tried calling customer support prior to the warranty period being offer, and they insisted that I have received a replacement unit. Not true. To be honest, I cannot tell you how many times or hours I have wasted with these people and got nothing. I am going to sale the lame thing in my garage sale for probably $25.00....that is $325.00 less than what I bought it for. It's worthless....but another brand. I will never ever in this lifetime own any other product by Philips again. Very bad customer service.

Just like everyone else........2006-05-12

Well from reading the other reviews I can only add the same ole same ole. Purchased in Nov 2003 worked pretty well until 2 months ago.Seems like we are reaching the max use range on this product. Disk errors started cropping up, would not read the disk it just wrote too etc. etc. I just got word from the repair store today and the laser lens is shot and $350 to repair, needless to say what my decision was. Less than 3 years of use and now I have a VERY expensive DVD player. (while that lasts but who knows for how long). Customer "no service" at Philips could seem to care less. They spend 10 minutes getting your personal information and 3 minutes on diagnosis. All in all I can't recommend the machine or the company. I may make the same mistake on a different manufacturer or model but I won't make it again on a Philips product.

Everything dies, I guess..........2005-12-11

As of the last month or so, my Philips DVDR75/17, purchased in early April of 2004, is clearly giving up the ghost and approaching the "white light", so to speak. We had a very happy relationship up until then, created hundreds of DVDs both for personal use and family/loved ones from various media sources (VCR, DVD movies, camcorder/digital camera) and I loved it very much. After coming to enjoy and even rely on it as much as I have over time, it is rather heartbreaking (and extremely frustrating) to watch it slip into a sort of state of senility, as it has recently.

I remember, I bought it on the same day that the only DVD player I owned at the time officially kicked the bucket, after about two years of happiness and then a few weeks of symptoms {I sense a pattern here...hence the title of this review}. I went out looking for a new player and came home with my first - and so far, only - recorder. Go figure. Initially, this silver, bulky, boxy, sterile-looking thing was a very intimidating beast and I was very tempted to take it back to the store the next day, but once I got used to all of the features and editing capabilities (e.g., the System Menu, removing commercials and creating screens for individual titles via 'FSS', etc.) I found it to be quite user-friendly. Once I realized that I could record onto DVD+RWs, edit the recording to my exact tastes in FSS and then select the 'Make Edits Compatible' option and pop the finalized DVD+RW into the DVD R/RW drive my laptop and generate a duplicate copy on a standard DVD+R with edits intact, that sweetened the deal for me [it should be noted here that although edits/chapter insertions can be made on a DVD+R recorded directly from the DVDR75, those edits will ONLY SHOW UP WHEN PLAYED ON THE PHILIPS DVDR75 ITSELF, NOT ON ANY OTHER STANDARD DVD PLAYER].

Anyway, I see that many other owners (prior, current & otherwise) have testified to the same problems I'm having now - disc freezing, the dreaded 'Disc Error', and so forth - so I won't be too redundant. I understand now that this is a common problem, that the laser on these things pretty much start to go after about 600 burns or so, according to one person.

There's one thing I could never understand regarding this recorder. Or rather, the ridiculous directive given in the ludricrous manual (I swear this is one of the most absurd Owner's Manuals you'll probably ever read in a lifetime of owning stuff; if you don't believe me go to Philips' webiste and download a copy for yourself) which states that you should NEVER, EVER use a DVD drive cleaning disc on this unit. How can you NOT use a cleaner on a DVD player (even if it IS also a recorder) after months and/or years of usage? Maybe this was Philip's intention - if you ever had to call customer service when and if the thing broke down on you, they could blame YOU when they asked you if you've used a disc cleaner on it and you said 'yes'. This is pure speculation though. I have not called customer service, and from what I've read from other owner accounts they're absolutely useless anyway.

So, why am I giving this product three stars? Well, I guess I paid somewhere in the area of $300 for my unit, and for what it's worth I'd have to say that it more than made up for the price I paid, in terms of all of the DVDs I was able to create/recreate. I'd have to say that the picture quality is excellent up to about the 3rd or 4th record speed setting (it has 6 in total), editing is easy, and you can create a really nice picture in the Title Menu screen for each chapter. If you're feeling really creative, you can use your PC to create special intros and pictures for your recordings, but that's a whole 'nother story. It's a good unit - WHILE IT WORKS. I know this product is no longer manufactured by Philips; I think it had been discontinued right around the time I bought it. I chose not to purchase an extended warranty after the 90(?)-day warranty expired, but I have no regrets. But I think I'll try to buy another one. The price has gone down significantly since I bought mine, and there are a few floating around out there if you look hard enough.

To anyone who might feel compelled to seek one out based on this review, I would suggest that you try to find one which is new, or rather, UNUSED - not 'like new', not 'only used a few times' ("everybody lies" - ©House, M.D.), not 'refurbished to manufacturer's specifications (unless there's a really good return policy), but UNUSED. I think you'll enjoy it once you get used to it. But don't expect it to last forever. Remember - everything dies...

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