Philips DVD recorders are 'riddled with bugs', website claims buying, recorders, multitude, recording, machines

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On The Inquirer website we can read  that according to a report on the Digital Spy forums, Philips DVD recorders are quot;riddled with bugsquot;, with a wide range of current problems.

Digital Spy lists  machines failing to read disks, switching off while recording, a problem with the timer, machines locking up, and a multitude of other claimed defects:

If anyone's considering buying a Philips DVD recorder they might want to wait a couple of months until the new models come out, because the company's current recorders seem to be riddled with bugs.

Faults are so widespread that on the pro DVD+R forum they're now running polls to try and chart the extent of the problem, and the results are simply shocking....

The problems are seemingly endless, including machines gradually refusing to read pre-recorded disks, switching off during recording, the timer not working, the machine locking up completely, white-outs during recordings from video, failure to finalise disks, blocky lines appearing in recordings and successfully recorded disks later refusing to be recognised.

I cannot say since I don't own a Philips DVD+R recorder but might be an interesting read for any Philips or future Philips owners out there.Edge

Thanks for the heads up, I'm sure it'll be useful to some of us.

Quite surprising a company like philips (they invented CD with Sony !) cannot achieve a good PC burner, as , in the same time, they do perfect SA burner with realtime Mpeg2 encoding...Does anyone has a philips burner and can give his comment ?

klona
I think the article is refering to theri standalone recorder

quot;switching off during recording, the timer not workingquot;

ooops.

This is my stupid day. I already asked for stupid thing to Atreides...

Will go to sleep I think.

I'm sure its not the PC burner as i have recently purchased one and i haven't had a single bad burn!  I have burnt to Philips, Ricoh, Datawrite and Traxdata with no problems at all.