Philips DVD R 890

Great recorder & player. Easy to use and the disks play on almost all DVD Players. By funny anough they would not play on an LG PC DVD Player. I bought the DVD+RW890, and had problems with crackles coming from the sound, when looped through the 890 from my Pace Digi Box. I did not have this problem when looped through my VCR. So I returned the drive and got a new one, but still had the same Prob. So on the sound settings on my Pace Sky Digi Box I lowered the output volume a to halfway. And all is well now. Just thought this might help, if ye come across the same problem again. ...  Read the complete review

Just to say that this machine has had to go back to the manufacturer to be fixed after some 9 months, which did not impress me for the following reasons. I had to send the machine back to where I bought it from as Philips does not deal with their customers directly, which is a bit stupid considering that they are both in the same part of the country. Philips themselves took several days to reply to my original query and after a couple of weeks Lo and Behold my machine arrived back but with no explanation of what had been wrong just a short statement of what they had changed which meant nothing to me as I am not an engineer. This said the machine works again but I ...  Read the complete review