Philips CDR820 CD Recorder

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• 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: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #143,207 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 20, 2001

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.

Product Description

The CDR820 is targeted primarily at a young adult audience (aged 20-40 years) and will be popular with those seeking an Audio CD-Recorder for making personalized/compilation CDs, but also as a 4-disk changer for relaxed home listening. The CDR820 is a separate unit designed and finished to fit neatly and elegantly with other Philips system units. Some 10 to 20% smaller than its predecessor (the CDR785), it features a carousel-style 3-CD Changer (with MP3-CD playback function) plus a full-function CD-Recorder unit. Thus, as well as flexible, state-of-the-art recording, the CDR820 also delivers constant playback of up to 4 CDs!With direct line, 4x double-speed recording and finalizing from the CD Changer, the CDR820 makes it simple, quick and convenient to make your own CDs, with absolutely no loss of sound quality. Automatic Level Control guarantees consistent playback volume from multi-source compilations. Users can also change two CDs while one is playing, making it more convenient to compile all your favorite tracks on one CD. A plug-in stereo microphone facility with level control makes voice recording equally easy. There is also a front-mounted port in which to plug a computer keyboard for simple inputting, editing and recording of CD text. The system plays both finalized and unfinalized CD-Recordable and CD-Rewritable disks containing either non-compressed or MP3 (compressed) music. Separate playback and recorder CD trays are easily distinguished by their different designs. Simplified recording buttons link to a clear, step-by-step display, which guides the user through CD-to-CD recording or multi-source compilation recording.

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

By	C. B Kitchin (Wilmington, MA. USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars After only 6 cd's burned the unit is dead., January 22, 2002

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

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.

19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Timothy Karlberg (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.