HELP! How can I add menu?

[rubberboy]

I just got the Philips 985 recorder and I transferred a few vhs tapes to discs but after I selected the chapter titles and pictures (which worked fine) I tried to insert a main menu photo and title and I couldn't. I can only have the Philips background in my menu. Is there any way around this? Or am I going to have to buy a pc dvd burner just to add menus?
Thanks for any help.

[txpharoah]

This is one of the many current drawbacks of standalone recorders.

[Gil T Pleasure]

Unfortunately, yes, you'll need to get a PC burner. But the good news is that with a DVD+VR capable software (Ulead Movie Factory, for example) you can now change the menu only, which is a time saver.

[tgpo]

Or a different recorder, not all recorders are like that. I have a Panasonic DMR-HS2 recorder and you can choose from a number of menu's, which none of them bear the name Pansonic. The menu's are very clean and look very good.

[Gil T Pleasure]

I'm curious. Do you get thumbnail menu or text menu on the HS2? I'm not certain, but I think you can get a thumbnail menu (6 thumbnails per screen) with the Toshiba X2.

[tgpo]

Text over menu image.

[rubberboy]

Well, I bought a dvd drive and used ULEAD Movie Factory and still nothing. After I put the burned DVD in the drive and try to open it so it can be authored, it keeps coming back as unknown format.

Anyone out there who can help?