Philips HDRW720

More than eight years ago, DVD (called Digital Versatile Disc at the time) burst onto the scene and offered the best quality audio and video images available, all on a new shiny 5-inch disc that looked like a CD. It was predicted that it would replace...

I have to agree this is the worst single purchase ever made in my lifetime – 60 years old. It is the most frustrating, useless piece of crap ever made anywhere by anyone. Had it for three years now and still can't get it working.

We bought on eBay and thus have limited recourse – so we bumble along with it.

I have had my unit for about 20 months and lately when I try to archive a movie or program, it will not complete the process but instead goes to a disk error message and I have to unplug it to reset.

Great when it works, but freezes frequently. Every time it freezes I have had to unplug it to get it to reboot. Every time it happened, I lost any recordings already completed.

when it works it works, but will hangup and may have to turn it off to reset it. Also will drop when making dvd and ruin the dvd installed. also will change channels on its own, that kills you when recording from an external device.

I've had mine for about a year now. The software is terribly buggy. It “crashes” and freezes all the time. Not reliable for scheduled recordings. Works well when it works, but software crashes make it a pain to use. Sometimes I even have to unplug it...

I'm a techie and work with all sorts of television, video, and computer equipment. This unit tops my list of the most Un-intuitive devise I've seen. Poor menu logic, terrible manual, and functions that just don't work make this unit frustrating to work...

I purchased this a costo also for $199. It is hard to beat at that price. The programing took awhile to master. The insturction book has some arrata sheets that gave correct information to the manual. The Phillips support webpage also gave some...

I bought mine about six mos ago (99$ open box no remote) after realizing that you cant do a thing without the remote . I was able to get one online for 40 . since then have constantly been having a great time with it . i record and burn nip/tuck for my...