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Some of the most important capabilities, and I'd refer you to the Philips Of features too numerous to attempt to enumerate completely. In addition to these capabilities, the DVDR-80 has a sweet smelling bouquet

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Or Blockbuster or wherever, a DVD recorder that creates both types of DVD Plusĭisks ( +R and +RW), and an online TV Guide that queries your cableĬonnection for show scheduling information then presents it onscreen so you canĮasily make recordings of up coming shows. Player that you can hook up to your TV and use to play commercial DVDs from NetFlix

The DVDR-80 combines three very appealing elements: a fully featured DVD

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Probably read your manuals cover to cover before you start right? Next morning starting over again from scratch, but that's just me. You Recommended setup procedure, as is my foolish habit, I had to spend an hour the And, since I skipped the straightforward and intuitive

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Throwing that disk away because I hadn't taken the time to learn how to do it I was recording my first family video from VHS to DVD within 15 minutes of opening the box. The biggest selling point for the DVDR-80 is that it's dead simple to hook upĪnd use. I paid $470 for the Philips DVDR-80, but the lowĮnd DVD recorders were in the $200 range and the prices seem to be fallingĪcross the board as the popularity of DVD recorders grows and the sales volume Once you've narrowed the field a bit you can also use the web to comparison Not the unit has a hard drive (useful, but jacks up the price Just stay away from DVD-RAM), and whether or The big choices you'll face are DVD format (I went with DVD Plus, but DVD Some of which are listed in the Resources section below. Several very helpful comparative reviews and technical primers on the web 1 In fact givenĬourses for horses and all that, your search might lead That the Philips was the only DVD recorder to even consider. Since DVD recorder capabilities are changing so fast, I'd hesitate to say Lead to a Philips DVDR-80 DVD that I'm pleased to recommend in all categories. Not especially feature rich), but after a few days of grubbing for info the path It turned out the Sony wasn't the right call (too pricey, I read all the fine print, didĪ quick price check on Amazon and figured that perhaps the time had come to Solution to archiving old VHS video tapes. Glossy spread on a Sony RDR-GX7 DVD recorder that was touted as the perfect I'm an inveterate and unrepentant tech fetishistĪnd a total sucker for a good widget advertisement, so when I bumped into a I'm embarrassed to admit that I probably fit the Wired demographic to a veryĬlose approximation. The search for a DVD recorder started with an ad in Wired magazine. To arrive on my doorstep, and I've pretty much put it to productive use. I chose sides in theĭreaded format wars for that matter, and leveraged the power of ecommerce toĪrrange for a shiny Philips DVDR-80 DVD Recorder 2 Once I'd decided I needed this widget, I set aboutĭetermining which brand and model best met my needs. Anyway, that's my storyĪnd I'm stickin to it. Present for the family, almost an appliance. Out, so I justified this purchase on that basis. I have a ton of family memories on aging VHS tapes that are starting to wear Pretty confident that she'll be able to play it. 'Finalize' your disks with most DVD recorders allowing it to be played

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Over, or perhaps has just become irrelevant, as the overall level ofĬompatibility amongst the DVD players has increased over the last year.īoth the Plus and the Minus formats seem to work pretty well, and you can Over two disk format standards, with one camp supporting DVD Plusand the I've totally resisted DVD Recorders up to now because of the FUD surrounding the ' DVD format wars.' DVD manufacturers have been battling mightily since DVD arrived They're bored, bought myself a new gizmo: a shiny new DVD Recorder. New Yorker magazine, listened to Heart of Darkness on tape, and annoyed all myĬlients with my sudden and anomalous attention to their needs and desires. E2 was down, I was getting bored and restless.

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