Philips DVDR600VR DVD Recorder with VCR

by Philips

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• Item Weight: 13 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds
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• ASIN: B00024MI8G
• Item model number: DVDR600VR
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #134,961 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Now you have a simple way to share your home videos with others, archive your most-treasured VHS tapes, and enjoy quality home cinema presentations on standard or high-definition televisions: Philips' DVDR600VR combination progressive-scan DVD player/recorder with built-in VCR. Schedule your TV recordings for either disc or tape and use the model's extensive inputs--including an i.Link digital video jack--to transfer and assemble camcorder footage or burn video from your PC to high-capacity DVD. The unit records up to 8 hours per disc side using either DVD+R or rewritable DVD+RW.

The DVDR600VR also features a disc manager that allows instant viewing of all recorded discs, storing contents details for up to 9,000 titles across up to 999 discs. You can also use the DVDR600VR like a VCR, burning televised programs directly to disc using VCR Plus+ simplified programming. Recording functions include favorite scene selection, automatic/manual chapter marker insertion, selectable index pictures, selectable background picture, append, divide, and "fit to space."

DVD+RW discs require no finalizing--you can record, eject, and play them with minimal fuss, thanks to "background formatting." This feature, which lowers total burning time, is an advantage over the "dash" formats. Other DVD+RW advantages include on-disc content editing and multisession writing. And, through DVD+RW and DVD+R's compatibility with most existing DVD players, they're a great way for you to share your special memories with family and friends.

But the DVDR600VR is also a first-rate DVD player, featuring progressive-scan video outputs, Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround sound passthrough, MP3 CD playback (CD-R/CD-RW), and compatibility with most DVD media (including video-mode DVD-R and DVD-RW).

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVDR600VR stands ready to deliver the full potential of your DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

Top-of-the-line interlaced component-video inputs and outputs (the output is switchable with the progressive-scan output) help minimize digital and line-scan artifacts from component-video sources and on compatible advanced televisions, while composite- and S-video inputs and outputs bring compatibility with nearly any video component and television monitor. Audio inputs consist of 2-channel analog jacks with 24-bit/96 kHz analog-to-digital conversion for DVD with Dolby Digital 2.0 audio compression (compression is non-defeatable). Video conversion, to and from digital, is performed by high-quality 10-bit, 54 MHz converters.

Two sets of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's coaxial digital-audio output for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver.

What's in the Box
DVD recorder/VCR, a remote control, remote batteries, a user's manual (English/Spanish), a quick-install guide, an AC power cord, a stereo analog audio interconnect, a composite-video cable, and an RF coaxial/antenna cable.

Product Description

Philips DVD/VCR combi Recorder, DVD+RW, I.Link, ukpto 89 hours recording, 4 speeds, HIFi VCR

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great product!, February 21, 2005

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Casey Snider (Norfolk, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Philips DVDR600VR DVD Recorder with VCR (Electronics)

If you're looking for a DVD Recorder/VCR that's affordable, easy to use, and of good quality, look no further than the Philips DVDR600VR. This product contains both a DVD+R/RW recorder and a VCR, making it easy to record high quality DVDs and videotapes. You can dub from tape to DVD or vice versa, set your own chapters and titles for DVDs, or record DVDs right from a TV or camcorder, as well as play CDs.

The DVDR600VR is surprisingly easy to use, even though the owner's manual looks a bit confusing (and the five sheets of addendums didn't help). I had the product set up in 30 minutes and had recorded my first DVD by the end of the day, complete with index pictures, titles, and chapters where I wanted them. Although it took me a few false starts and a couple of snafus, I've pretty much got the hang of it now and I've only had it for two days. :) Also, it records in DVD+R format, which tends to be compatible with more DVD players, so I can play my homemade DVDs in other devices - a definite plus.

The DVDR600VR isn't perfect, of course; you can't pause the recording when dubbing from tape to DVD, so make sure your original tape doesn't have anything you don't want. You can choose to label commercials, etc. as "hidden" chapters, which won't be shown during playback, but those still take up room on the DVD. You can't label chapters the way commercially-made DVDs do, so you just have to flip through a title to find the chapter you want; a minor aggravation at best. I've also had trouble dubbing from another VCR; I don't know if it's the other device, but playback seems slow and jerky when viewed through the DVDR600VR. The biggest problem that I've had, though, is transferring older or less-than-perfect VHS tapes to DVD. If there's any kind of bobble in your tape, it winds up as a brief (think half-second) dropout on the DVD which gives the look of odd, jerky splicing. Also, the DVDR600VR won't copy "protected" tapes - understandable, but it has a weird idea of what constitutes "copy protection". I've been able to transfer a couple of older, commercially-produced tapes from my old skating competitions, but a ballet that had been copied perfectly from DVD to VHS wouldn't record because the DVDR600VR thought it was "copy protected".

Still, though, these are minor flaws considering the quality and value of this product. The DVDR600VR is easy enough even for beginners, and it's a great value especially at Amazon's price. If you're looking for the best way to put your favorite TV shows, movies, or memories on DVD, this is a great way to go.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too many problems for the price., April 6, 2005

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R. Christenson "SpaceComics.com" (Pine, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips DVDR600VR DVD Recorder with VCR (Electronics)

I had a lot of problems from the start with this one, and finally decided to return it and get a more expensive Sony.

The first problem was that most of the DVDs would not play back on my old Panasonic DVD player (which specifies that it will play DVD+R and +RW, and has played them from my computer and other sources). I tried Philips, Verbatim, Fuji, and Imation discs. I finally got some Memorex and HP DVD+R discs to work; so it just may be that all those other brand DVDs are too shabby. However, I still haven't gotten any brand of DVD+RW to work - they'll record, but not play back elsewhere, even though the other equipment specifies it.

Furthermore, often at the end of recording, it no longer recognizes the disc. I recorded on a Philips DVD in the Philips recorder, it seemed to be working fine, but when I tried to acess it again to add titles and finalize it, it said the disc was not the right region code for the player. Another time with an HP DVD+R disc, after I had recorded two short titles, it simply froze up at the end and would not bring up either the system menu or the title menu. Later I put this disc in the Sony recorder and it allowed me to finish editing the titles and finalize the disc.

The remote has fewer features than I'm accustomed to. Specifically, they use the same button for Next and Search - you press once to advance to the next chapter, or hold it down 2 seconds to search. I found this awkward and unreliable, though perhaps I would have gotten used to it in time.

Finally, the VCR does not eject tapes all the way; they stick when the edge of the cassette is flush with front of the machine, and if you try to pry it out, it pulls it back in. I've had this problem with old worn out VCRs before, but this is a brand new one and should work better.

There are other issues, but these were the most important. I used to think Philips was a good brand name; this has changed my mind. But I would have to admit you can get this to work for you if you're tolerant of all these problems and take the time to test the discs and procedures to find a combination that works for you. But I think it's worth another $50-$100 for a model that's relatively problem free and handles more formats as well (I'll review the Sony later - so far it's seems much better).

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DVD +R Problematic, August 14, 2005

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P. Knutzen (Santa Maria, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips DVDR600VR DVD Recorder with VCR (Electronics)

I was thrilled when I originally bought this unit, because I intended on converting old VHS family tapes to DVD. Because I had already converted some tapes on my computer to DVD+R format, I also was using it to play the DVD+R's that I had burned on my computer. There is some sort of problem with the unit that causes it to freeze and skip when playing custom burned DVD+R's. It was shipped back to the factory once, and when I received it back, they had replaced the DVD Drive, but still was not working. It is currently being fixed now the second time, I'm highly doubtful they are going to fix it now since they already replaced the DVD drive to begin with last time. But I am very disgusted with Philips warranty service and this unit. I have now been without my unit while under warranty repair for about 2 months, and after it came back the first time, there was an additional noise inside of the unit of something that had broken loose on the inside and was falling around inside the unit. Stay away from Philips unless you dare!