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My 775 is a replacement for the 765, but like the 765 it is also a piece of crap this machine in less than a year begin to have the following malfuntions 1. It would appear to record a whole disc, then when finalized there would be nothing on disc. 2. Would stop recording after four tracs and go in wait mode. 3. Then disc would stick in drawer. I also have a Sony Duel Deck and have never had a problem. My advise stay away from Phillips, it is a piece of garbage.

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I suspect that I was pretty lucky with the unit I got. The 2x speed recording function, when it works, is a dream for 'getting the goods out' without having to be around to listen to the disc. Audio quality of CD's is in my opinion good- I am not an hardcore audiophile, but I am a professional musician and often take part in studio recordings. 'Realistic sound' is in my opinion more what the studio engineers do to the recordings than what a audio system will deliver. (Karajan, by the way, supposedly made his final tests of a recordings quality with a cheap Walkman, thinking that if it sounds good enough on a tape and little headphones, then it could be released.)

Sometimes, I have had prolems with getting the machine to record at twice the speed. At first I thought that the disc was ruined, but then I found out that recording would work at normal speed. The Update function, as I said, sometimes pops up in the middle of recording, ruining my disc, but that is rare (and I have seen nothing of the OPC error that others have mentioned- maybe that will come later!). Also, I have had some problems with commercial discs getting stuck in one spot and repeating over and over again, or wildly skipping around. Whenever that happens, I'll plop the disc into my normal CD player and not experience the problem.

Reading the reviews here, I was quite skeptical about taking the plunge and shelling out good money for the CDR775. However, I decided to play devil's advocate. I thought to myself that if I were at least able to pay for the unit within the warranty period through the discs I was able to copy, then I should be happy with at least having achieved that. Its a pity in a way, because although I have only had minor problems with the machine up until now, I expect that in two years from now, I will probably be standing in front of some glitzy display of the latest CDR technology. In the last five months, I have recorded about 100 discs, and, from those 100, I have lost maybe 10-15 due either to my error or to the mysterious UPDATE that sometimes raises its ugly head on me. Whenever I am confronted with the latter and see that the disc is ruined, I want to heave the recorder out of the window. Fortunately, on the positive side, I have been able to make a huge amount of successful recordings, and hope that I will be able to for the remainder of the warranty period. In general, I would like to say that I am deleriously happy about all of the cheap CD's I have been able to make, but can't, knowing that someday the machine will probably crap out on me.

Good idea because of write audio-cd´s from any source

doesn´t write any cd from what kind of source ever

I just stepped into this site searching for people with problems with the cdr 775, just like me. GREAT SITE! Lots of fun for me seeing you guys kicking your cdr! My problems with the unit at the moment (the unit reached a new highscore in making trouble): Can´t read a new, normal music-cd in the player-unit, doesn´t write ANY kind of recording (make cd, manual, ...). The Philips-Team told me to use only their own cd´s - hey, joke, or not? Has any of you guys an idea to teach the cdr to write a cd in the promised way? Thanx & greetings, Basil

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I've had this unit for about 2 years now. I use it in various applications in my home recording studio. Other than the usual "user drawbacks" which are actually what I consider,design "oversights", I've had absolutely no problems with this cd recorder . . . until NOW!! I have started getting a display which says, "NO - OPC". As stated by other's reviews, this is not the common "OPC Error" message. The manual describes what the message means, but offers NO troubleshooting information to correct the problem. With this "NO - OPC" message displayed, you can do NO RECORDING of any sort, optical, digital, analog . . . nothing!! Any suggestions (short of placing it under the wheels of my car and driving over it??) Prior to this problem surfacing, during a dual high-speed disc copy I had the machine stop as though it thought it were finished after copying only 6 tracks of a 10 track cd. I am using Memorex cd's for music and have used them in the past with no trouble. I'm mid-way into a particular project so any constructive input you may have will be greatly appreciated.

Does a good job on CD to CDR copying.

Inconsistently recognizes CDR media.

The manual recording of LPs takes too much handling to insert track intervals. They should have a sensor to automatically place a track when there is a three-second silence (between song cuts on LPs). But, the worst problem of all is that it inconsistently recognizes blank media. The tech support people said the media was the fault, and they gave me the names of Yamaha, Kodak, Sony and Samsung as the only CDR media they could recommend. They said they were hard to find (impossible, for me, so far) but they could order them through some source or other for $3 per disk or so. Ha! They said the disks could not be the ones with the MB or minute information. They had to say "Digital Audio for Music." My disks say For music use. I said inconsistent because using one machine for a source I could get it to recognize, but using an amplifier, turntable and the 775 together (the better setup, supposedly) I couldn't get it to recognize the disks. Clarification, sometimes it would say OPC error, other times it would say wrong disk, and other times it would pretend to be recording, but always at 23 seconds it would default to UPDATE and stop. Trying to play back there was nothing on the disk. Ruined a lot of quarter-priced disks that way. I wouldn't have it on a Christmas tree wrapped in gold if I could get rid of the one I have. HOWEVER, for copying disk to disk on the machine itself, it recognizes the disks I have been using, and does a fabulous job. So, if you need to copy LP's over to CDR you had better go with RCA or something else that isn't so finicky.

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Price? Maybe. But not really seeing as eventually you'll have to get a better one. So maybe um...instant gratification?

Freezing Unreliability Slow It makes you write bad poetry.

I bought this as an open box buy at Best Buy. I've bought all my equipment that way and NEVER ONCE HAD A PROBLEM. This horrid little machine is the exception. All the previous problems listed happened within one week of purchase. Freezing up, not reading cdr's, that whole "OPC ERROR" thing, the unending update message; all of it. The whole reason I got this was to archive all my vinyl and even that takes hours as there is no way to seperate tracks. So if you want each song to be a seperate track, you have to hit STOP and wait for it to update...which can take as long as five minutes, sometimes longer. Extremely frusturating. Last night it went straight into the crapper though. After recording ONE SONG, it wouldn't update, so I turned it off and went to go get a new cdr to start over with, and when I turned it back on, it won't open! The display SAYS it's open, but hey, it's closed! What a pile. Yeah I got a good deal on it, but that's about it. Here is a heiku about my machine: Please work recorder I will bet you're updating for an hour. This sucks.

Works great! If you have a unit that has been built/calibrated correctly.

If built poorly, it will be a piece of junk. Also, you need to clean CDR lens clean every 10 hours or so. My expeirence is that this will save you a lot aggravation and ruined CDRs.

I purchased a refurbished Philips 770 CDR Recorder from an ebay auction. It displayed all the problems and defects as stated on this site. It was the absolute worse piece of audio gear I had ever owned. I sent the "thing" back to Philips to get it repaired. The round-trip repair took about one week and cost me about $4.00 shipping. Philips replaced the CDR Drive and installed new software at no charge. The machine has worked flawlessly ever since. I think the problem with Philips is poor "quality control." They would produce a better product if their CDR Recorders were made in the United States and if they used better quality electronics/parts.

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cheap and easy to use, lots of inputs and outputs

no volume control for the headphones

This thing is a gamble. It makes excellent coppies for the price of the recorder, but many people report reliablility issues. I have had no problems with it at all after 30+ discs recorded. Still crossing my fingers. It does sound better compared to the older Philips.

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older Philips, also had NO problems

Keeps coming up with "disc error" halfway thro'' burning cd''s sometimes no matter what make of cd is used.Not very happy with it.

Philips 775 Discs burned - 151 High quality copies - 151 Bad copies - 0 This burner does exactly as described. My only advice is to keep it simple and make sure copy is finalized. For the price of a blank cdr I don''t see a need to fill it up completely. Keep you posted on the next 150.