Which is the best DVD+R recorder?

[lordsmurf]

I try to track chips and recorders, but it's not easy. There is no "list" that I know of. Often I have to buy a machine, open it up, peak inside, and then return it.

Good machines I keep, bad ones I take back.

I do not test HDD models. But that all tend to use the same chip as the "little brother" machine with no HDD.

[handyguy]

""DVD-RW are not expensive, maybe $1-2 each at most."

But you don't know how long they are going to last.


How does that matter? DVD+RW are in the same situation. "

Sorry, what I meant is that you don't know how long you can use the disk itself before it won't rewrite anymore.

I got some Imation dvdrams & used them daily for about 28 months before I had to throw them out.

Panasonics new dvd recorders do +r.

[David K]

I've had the Philips 615 since January and have been very pleased with it.
I was interested to see that it has the LSI chip because I always thought that the 615's encodes were comparable to the ones I used to do the old fashioned way from AVI with Procoder, but everyone was always saying that Philips' quality was no good. But apparently they have ceased using their previous chipset with the 615, and I lucked into a good encoder.

For VHS conversion, I run the signal through my Sony TRV740 which cleans up the signal beautifully, and converts it to a digital signal which I then send to the 615 through its firewire connection. However good the LSI chipset is in reducing noise from a direct VHS source, the results are dramatically superior when I use this method.