strange blue line on recording from Philips DVDR80 ?!

[dosers]

I guess this is a known issue with this and the 985units, but if anyone has any input, I'd very much appreciate it;
Looks like when recording on M1 and M2 on the DRVDR80, it put a strange blue artefact line on the left side of the screen. This is no visible playing back on the Philips itself, but shows on ANY other Player (Sony, JVC, Panasonic, WInDVD, PowerDVD). Tried 2 firmwares, to no avail. Since I want to use the Recorder for archiving, this won't do - does anyone know if there's a fix for this ? Philips support is clueless, of course...
Thanks,
Dan

[FulciLives]

I guess this is a known issue with this and the 985units, but if anyone has any input, I'd very much appreciate it;
Looks like when recording on M1 and M2 on the DRVDR80, it put a strange blue artefact line on the left side of the screen. This is no visible playing back on the Philips itself, but shows on ANY other Player (Sony, JVC, Panasonic, WInDVD, PowerDVD). Tried 2 firmwares, to no avail. Since I want to use the Recorder for archiving, this won't do - does anyone know if there's a fix for this ? Philips support is clueless, of course...
Thanks,
Dan

How many times MUST I and others tell WHOMEVER that IF you want a stand alone DVD recorder you should pick a model based on the -R format.

Learn this lesson. Return that garbage and get a Panny or Pioneer stand alone DVD recorder. Toshiba gets high marks as well. Forget the new Sony model though until more is known about it.

Do THAT and problem solved.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[tompika]

It's not the format.
Made in Hungary.-This is the problem

[dosers]

Well, I would agree with you on the Philips - I have had similar problems with the Q50 (bugs, firmware etc.) and returned it, so I'll be staying away from Philips. But I don't see that the format has anything to do with it. I think there are merits to -RAM, - and the + formats, but frankly I'd do + over - anyday as I like doing some of the stuff on the fly that I need a HD for in the - domain. Having said that, I have no problem with - (would LOVE to do RAM, but the incompatibility is a problem for me) if indeed I find a system that has 'all the goods' I want. Looks like I'll be waiting to see how the Pioneer 810 (HD, -R, -RW) is...

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[goldmember1]

I’ve got the Philips R70 & no problems with it. Strange nothing showing up on the Philips you could be getting interference from some thing else. Next time you play back a recording disconnect everything apart from your player & your TV check your scart connections on both. If there was a problem I don’t think the Philips would hide it on play back.
:P 8)

[dosers]

Goldmember,
thanks, but it's definetely information that's being put in the frames on the disk, unfortunately. No interference. No matter what source, what input and no matter what media (+R or +RW). In fact, this seems to be a known issue with the older 985 model as well. It only shows up in the progressive domain and in the higher resolutions, but it's across all brands and TVs (no matter the overscan compensation).

Cheers,
Dan

[goldmember1]

The players new & since no one at Philips knows about such a problem with the R80 it could be a fault get it exchanged for an other one. What type of signal are you putting into the player RGB, S video etc? Try the following out to see if there’s any difference.

[tim254]

I also have a DVDR-80 and I'm also having the same exact problem even after the latest firmware updates. I just noticed it tonight and I'm really dissapointed in this player so far because it has too many little issue that should have been addressed before it went out the door. I really hope this issue along with the other issues will be fixed via firmware.

[dosers]

Well, I hear ya - I REALLY want to like and keep the DVDR80, but I think I'll be giving up. I don't think, for the money it costs, we should have to wait for numerous firmwares to make a slew of things work that should have been fine to begin with. I had the same experience with Philips before, and it never QUITE got fixed (Q50), so, as hard as it is, I'll be returning mine

Good luck,
Dan

[gerardhvisser]

I tried out a few things concerning ''the thin blue line".
I own a DVDR75 which produces the same spirit line. I can only see this line in Media Player and Power DVD. In Power DVD I can make it dissapear by moving my monitor image a bit to the left before starting Power DVD.
It does not appear on a TV screen when using my older YAMAHA DVD player (S 520), it DOES show the somewhat wider dark area on the left side of the picture. My guess was the blue line lies without the area which they call video save area in some title programs, so it dissapears behind the mask that covers your TV tube. But, visiting friends I tried it on a widescreen TV (Philips) with a Panasonic DVD player and tot my relief the blue line didn't show up there too! Maybe newer gear knows how to muffle away these image faults? However it remains strange that the whole picture seems to be shifted to far to the right on these occasions. It strongly reminds me of the picture you get when you move your tv picture to far to the right.......

[Cazz]

That was sometime since someone have write this topic

I have a Yakumo DVD Record Master that when I play the DVD in my computer (DVD+RW) it show a blue line on the left side.

I dont now why or how I can fix that.
I going to try a DVD-RW soon to see if that is same problem.