Philips CDR820 CD Recorder

by Philips

Product Details

Product Manual [2.50mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 17.1 x 4.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005AY8U
• Item model number: CDR820
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #364,470 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #76 in Electronics > Home Audio & Theater > Stereo Components > CD Players & Recorders > CD Recorders
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Create your own CD-R and CD-RW compilation CDs with this audio CD recorder from Philips. Using Bitsync technology to ensure accurate recordings, the CDR820 creates 100-percent true copies of the originals.

Start recording from your favorite CDs right away with the integrated three-CD carousel. Connect to your home component system through an available optical digital-audio port and start creating classy compilations of your favorite minidiscs and CDs (or make flawless second-room discs) that can be played in any CD-R-compatible or CD-RW-compatible CD or DVD player.

You'll also be able to use this player as a component CD player. With features such as a 99-track program memory, random and repeat play, plus an easy jog dial and remote control, it makes the perfect digital addition to any home stereo.

The CDR820 is compatible with CD Text display, edit, and record, so you can name the CDs that you create, plus assign artist and track names to be displayed in any CD Text-compatible CD player.

You'll also have the option of finalizing your recordings with Philips's AutoFinalize system or Unfinalize if you make a mistake while recording CD-RWs.

Philips covers the CDR820 for one year on parts and labor.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Got Lucky!, June 5, 2003

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C. B Kitchin (Wilmington, MA. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips CDR820 CD Recorder (Electronics)

I had previously purchased a Phillips CDR800. It would not finalize anything but TDK CDR discs. I had returned it for repair but Phillips did not fix the problem.

Fortunately, I was able to exchange this unit for a new CDR820. This time I got a perfict machine: it has great features and appears to burn all brands of CDR.

Clearly, if you are one of the lucky few, a Phillips purchase is OK. But..they really need to fix their design, repair, and customer service.

Be careful!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars After only 6 cd's burned the unit is dead., January 21, 2002

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Mario E. Maroto (MIAMI, FLORIDA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Philips CDR820 CD Recorder (Electronics)

I waited for a long time the release of this new model from Philips. Trying to burn the seventh cd the unit entered into a mode (Disc Recover) not even described in the manual. No function of the cd recorder operated after this situation and the unit was returned to the store in exchange for other recorder of different brand.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This product is a gamble at best, March 20, 2002

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Dull Roaring - See all my reviews

This review is from: Philips CDR820 CD Recorder (Electronics)

I originally bought last year's model of this recorder from Philips. And after a few months, it simply stopped recording on CDR's and half the functions became completely unreliable. So i sent it back to the manufacturer (because it was under the one-year warranty) where it sat in their factory for over a month. They later returned it to me and claimed that there were "no apparent problems with the recorder." Like a naive idiot, I took their word for it and brought it home again. When I plugged it in and tried recording, I found that the original problem had clearly been ignored by Philips, and, to make it even sweeter, the factory had somehow created an entirely new malfunction whereby the unit sporadically and suddenly turns its power off...and yes, even in the middle of recording a CD. So, the next day, I sent it back to the factory. And after having sat somewhere in the same factory for an additional 6 weeks, Philips told me that they didn't know how to fix the problem, and would be sending me a brand new unit (this CDR820). "Pretty cool" I thought. Until I got the unit and tried some basic recording. The unit worked fine one minute, and then almost on cue, the unit started giving me unexplained error messages (NOT talked about in the owner's manual) and all of the buttons on the recorder ceased to respond in any way. Incidently, if you ever need a good laugh, call the Philips consumer electronics customer service hotline and explain a simple problem your product is having, and listen to their expert advice. Well, needless to say, I pawned the CDR for chump change but since then I've slept like a baby now that the cursed machine is out of my life forever. Please, please, please listen to my advice and do what I wish I had done over a year and a few hundred dollars ago: avoid this brand for CD recording equipment.