Philips DVDR77 DVD Recorder

Philips DVDR77 DVD Recorder

Product Description
Amazon Product Description
Philips' sleek DVDR77 DVD player/recorder lets you share your home videos with others, relieve your VCR of its regular TV taping duties, and enjoy quality home theater on standard or high-definition televisions. Digital media fans will relish the unit's front-panel PCMCIA input, which reads image files from a range of media cards, including Memory Stick, Compact Flash, SD card, Smart Media, and Micro Drive. Got a DV camcorder, too? The unit's extensive inputs include an i.Link digital video jack, through which you can transfer and assemble your most treasured footage, archive all your old videotapes, or burn video from your PC straight to high-capacity DVD--up to six hours per disc side using either DVD+R or DVD+RW.

The DVDR77 features progressive-scan technology, which allows compatible TVs to display images at double the frequency of standard TVs, minimizing flicker and making the picture easier on your eyes.

You can also use the DVDR77 like a VCR, burning televised programs directly to disc using the handy VCR Plus+ onscreen TV program guide. Recording functions include the ability to record picture DVDs (which hold up to 3,600 pictures), 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.

DVD+RW discs require no finalizing--you can record, eject, and play them with minimal fuss, thanks to "background formatting." This feature, which lowers total burning time, is an advantage over the "dash" formats. Other DVD+RW advantages include on-disc content editing and multisession writing.

And, because of DVD+RW and DVD+R's compatibility with most existing DVD players, they're a great way for you to share your special memories with family and friends. The unit's Virtual Time Base Corrector ensures better-than-original copies from old video tapes.

The DVDR77 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 DVDR77 stands ready to deliver the full potential of your 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 nondefeatable).

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 Sound simulates surround sound through two speakers (even the stereo speakers on your TV).

What's in the Box
DVD player/recorder, remote control, remote batteries, RCA cables, and a user's manual.

Product Description:
Philips (DVDR77) DVD RECORDER

Philips DVDR77 DVD Recorder

Average customer rating:

Do Not EVER Trust Philips or Buy Their Products

Amazing DVD Recorder

Philips DVDRecorders don't work

A good player, mine would not record

A good player, mine would not record

Philips DVDR77 DVD Recorder

Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Record from TV directly to DVD; up to 6 hours video recording per side (either DVD+R or DVD+RW); plays MP3 CD and JPEG picture CD/picture DVD

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

Favorite Scene Selection simplifies editing of your home movies; VCR Plus+ onscreen TV program guide simplifies timer programming

17.1 x 2.6 x 13.2 inches (W x H x D)

ASIN: B0000U7FG2

Product Description

Record digital pictures and camcorder tapes on DVD and play them on TV. PRODUCT FEATURES: i.LINK digital connection for perfect copies of camcorder tapes; RGB Component Video Input for the best digital recording quality; YPBPR Component Video Outputs the best possible and most flexible analog video connection; 2-channel Dolby Digital encoder for perfect recording of stereo and Dolby Pro Logic audio; 24-bit digital-to-analog conversion for top quality sound; Over 3600 pictures on DVD!; Media slot (PCMCIA) for fast transfer from memory card to DVD; no cables, no software installation; Up to 8 hours video recording per side; Index Picture Screen for visual Table Of Contents; Favorite Scene Selection for easy editing of your home movies; Disc Manager for instant overview of all your discs; Plays Picture CDs and DVDs.

Amazon Product Description

Philips' sleek DVDR77 DVD player/recorder lets you share your home videos with others, relieve your VCR of its regular TV taping duties, and enjoy quality home theater on standard or high-definition televisions. Digital media fans will relish the unit's front-panel PCMCIA input, which reads image files from a range of media cards, including Memory Stick, Compact Flash, SD card, Smart Media, and Micro Drive. Got a DV camcorder, too? The unit's extensive inputs include an i.Link digital video jack, through which you can transfer and assemble your most treasured footage, archive all your old videotapes, or burn video from your PC straight to high-capacity DVD--up to six hours per disc side using either DVD+R or DVD+RW.

The DVDR77 features progressive-scan technology, which allows compatible TVs to display images at double the frequency of standard TVs, minimizing flicker and making the picture easier on your eyes.

You can also use the DVDR77 like a VCR, burning televised programs directly to disc using the handy VCR Plus+ onscreen TV program guide. Recording functions include the ability to record picture DVDs (which hold up to 3,600 pictures), 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.

DVD+RW discs require no finalizing--you can record, eject, and play them with minimal fuss, thanks to "background formatting." This feature, which lowers total burning time, is an advantage over the "dash" formats. Other DVD+RW advantages include on-disc content editing and multisession writing.

What's in the Box
DVD player/recorder, remote control, remote batteries, RCA cables, and a user's manual.

Customer Reviews:

Do Not EVER Trust Philips or Buy Their Products.......2007-02-13

On June 23, 2006, I bought a Philips DVD Player at Wal-Mart. I could have purchased a cheap DVD player for $30.00 or $40.00, but frankly I spent more than that because I have other Philips products, including another Philips DVD player, and, up until now, was always pleased with the products made by them. The DVD player, even though it was not used much (it was kept at a vacation home), stopped loading disks at the end of September, 2006. I took it back to Wal-Mart, but Wal-Mart would not accept the return because the purchase was slightly over three months old and the limit for store-returns is three months. However, Wal-Mart printed a proof of purchase for me and advised that the manufacturer's warranty still applied. The Wal-Mart proof of purchase even specified the telephone number for the manufacturer.

Accordingly, I called the number listed. I was first advised to use a disk cleaner. I purchased a Philips disk cleaner, but it did not solve the problem. (The first and second times I called, I was at first advised that the purchase date was back in 2005 and so no warranty would apply. I then was able to confirm my purchase date and the representatives "updated" the information and told me it was under warranty.) Each time you call, you get a different representative.

After I advised that the disk cleaner did not work, I was given a fax number to fax my proof of purchase and I did so; I was told the player would be replaced. My letter attaching the proof of purchase was included. After I faxed it, I received a call asking me to re-fax it and I did so. I then heard nothing for two weeks. On October 30th, 2006, I called to find out the status of matters. I was told two inconsistent things: First, I was told it was under warranty but that only parts were warranted and it would cost me $40.00 for a replacement. Secondly, and obviously inconsistently, I was told that my proof of purchase from Wal-Mart was insufficient, even though the store specifically printed it out for me as my "proof of purchase." The underlying message was, "We are not going to do anything for you and even if we did, it would cost you forty dollars." I told the representative that I could buy a brand new player for that price and that I have no incentive to ever purchase a Philips product again. I have all sorts of electronics that are still working fine after years. I do not think it unreasonable to expect that a device will work for more than three months!

I wrote to the CEO of Philips and heard not a thing back. Why would ANYONE buy products from such a company? Never again.

Amazing DVD Recorder.......2005-08-13

I have bought 3 dvd recorders over the last few months only to be severly dissapointed up until I bought the Philips DVDR77. It is one of the only recorders I have seen with component input and since I am recording video from a Tivo-esque device and had to run it through the recorder having a good connection was important. I am using Philips DVD-R's with it and have recorded about 25 DVD's as of now all without any problems; highly recomended recorder.

Philips DVDRecorders don't work.......2005-08-12

I bought a DVDR895 for $900 (+ $100 for an extended warranty) when they came out a few years ago. That unit failed multiple times. Ruined a bunch of DVDs. Philips couldn't fix the unit, so they provided me with a replacement unit under the extended warranty (at least they honored the warranty). But the DVDR77 started showing the same problems. This second unit has been serviced twice now and isn't working again.

I had never tried to use the Digital Photo Manager functions... and now that I do, it shouldn't be a surprise that it doesn't work either.

Don't waste your time or money on Philips DVDRecorders. Those people that write the positive reviews are either very lucky to have a DVDR that works or they are telling tall tales.

A good player, mine would not record.......2005-07-30

I bought this from a competitor, wish I had bought from Amazon.

We have had it for a few months, have never been able to get it to record.

The book says 1 year warranty. Philips would not honor the warranty, because they said, they no longer had in their data base, even though we have only owned it for a few months.

After many headaches and shipping expense, and a restocking charge, the competition is taking it back.

We are going to buy a Panasonic or Sony now

A good player, mine would not record.......2005-07-30

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