Philips DVDR72

29% of reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

I've had mine for a couple years now & I'm still very pleased with it! I've backed up alot of VHS tapes with this onto DVD, & it has very good video noise reduction!

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....

Phillips is really giving Sony a run for their money as the least competent manufacturer of comsumer home electronics. I was given a Phillips DVDR-985 to try out. It was used so when it stopped working after one month I didn't question it. I went...

It plays commercial DVDs properly but it is often incapable of playing or recognizing those it has burned itself. I just tried to record two programs and got "disk error" as soon as I pressed the stop button. In other cases, I have gotten "unknown...

It's a great recorder, but the remote is terrible, operating only Philips DVD, not even a Philips TV. So, unless you want a $100 universal remote and can find one that will operate this with TiVo etc., you're stuck with a minimum of two remotes. Like...

I have had good results from day 1. I have owned this recorder for over a year. The DVDs are very good and play on all my other machines. The only down side is the instruction/owners manual, which was obviously written by a person whose first language...

It started giving problems after nine months of normal use. Thirteen months later, no warranty and to costly to repair. Stay away from it!