Philips DVD-R80 Review

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Philips DVD-R80
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Clipper2's Review of Philips DVD-R80 DVD Recorder

28th Apr 2004

Overall Rating

3.5 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
  • Image Quality
    5 stars
  • Features
    2.5 stars
  • Time DVD Recorder Owned
    6 - 12 Months
  • Sound Quality
    5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4 stars
Good Points

Good quality.
Very good telephone customer support.


Bad Points

Chapter markers not recognised by any other DVD player.


General Comments

When you place chapter markers on a DVD+R disc they can only be recognised by the Philips DVD R80 DVD Recorder itself. No other machine (including Philips players) will recognise them. Apparently it is OK if you use DVD+RW discs but you can't finalise them.

Some people won't mind this problem, if they only play back their recordings themselves. But if you want to share your recordings with other people its not so good. But then again are any of the others? You never get the whole story. Its only when you've had a product for a few months that the little problems come crawling out of the woodwork.

When I bought this machine all the reviews were raves. 5 out of 5 every time. It was a new product and it takes time to find the problems. Now they are more realistic.

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Members' Comments onClipper2's Review

  • rocky26 Rank: Lance Corporal on 21st Jun 2004

    Disagree about Chapter marker comments, I have R80 recorded +R's with chapter markers that Do play back on other DVD players.

  • peacocm on 22nd Jun 2004

    ditto .. no problems in recognising chapters on a Sony FP21 and a Compaq laptop

  • Clipper2 Rank: Lance Corporal on 23rd Jun 2004

    We don't have problems on pc's either. We have a Philips DVD728 player as well as the R80 and were surprised that it didn't recognise the markers. We were told by Philips that other DVD players would not recognise the markers either. This is very interesting.

  • dgboyd on 19th Jul 2004

    I bought the DVDR80 Recorder specifically to archive my collection of Digital 8 tapes by transfer from camcorder to DVD by firewire using the front DV/IN socket. All as described in Philips instruction manual (p.21).

    The result has been that sound and vision go 'out of sync' on playback although this does not occur with normal recordings from TV. If the same discs are played on other machines there is no problem with sync indicating the DVDR80 only has this fault.

    The recorder has been sent back to Philips for repair at their suggestion but to no avail. The sync problem remains and there has been no explanation with its return. I am therefore sending it back as 'unsuitable for its purpose'.

    I also agree with another reviewer that the Chapter markers do not work on other players.

  • Clipper2 Rank: Lance Corporal on 20th Jul 2004

    That is very interesting (dgboyd) as we have been having synch problems and have been blaming it on our computer. Maybe there was a bad batch of R80's and we have got one.

  • fisketjon on 5th Sep 2004

    I've set chapter markers on a DVD+RW disc and they were recognised by my Pioneer DVD player (DV 545)