Philips CDR820 CD Recorder

• Record on Audio CD-R and CD-RW discs
• Integrated 3 disc changer
• 4x speed recording
• Headphone jack with volume control
• Microphone input

I had previously purchased a Phillips CDR800. It would not finalize anything but TDK CDR discs. I had returned it for repair but Phillips did not fix the problem.

Fortunately, I was able to exchange this unit for a new CDR820. This time I got a perfict machine: it has great features and appears to burn all brands of CDR.

Clearly, if you are one of the lucky few, a Phillips purchase is OK. But..they really need to fix their design, repair, and customer service.

Be careful!

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I originally bought last year's model of this recorder from Philips. And after a few months, it simply stopped recording on CDR's and half the functions became completely unreliable. So i sent it back to the manufacturer (because it was under the one-year warranty) where it sat in their factory for over a month. They later returned it to me and claimed that there were "no apparent problems with the recorder." Like a naive idiot, I took their word for it and brought it home again. When I plugged it in and tried recording, I found that the original problem had clearly been ignored by Philips, and, to make it even sweeter, the factory had somehow created an entirely new malfunction whereby the unit sporadically and suddenly turns its power off...and yes, even in the middle of recording a CD. So, the next day, I sent it back to the factory. And after having sat somewhere in the same factory for an additional 6 weeks, Philips told me that they didn't know how to fix the problem, and would be sending me a brand new unit (this CDR820). "Pretty cool" I thought. Until I got the unit and tried some basic recording. The unit worked fine one minute, and then almost on cue, the unit started giving me unexplained error messages (NOT talked about in the owner's manual) and all of the buttons on the recorder ceased to respond in any way. Incidently, if you ever need a good laugh, call the Philips consumer electronics customer service hotline and explain a simple problem your product is having, and listen to their expert advice. Well, needless to say, I pawned the CDR for chump change but since then I've slept like a baby now that the cursed machine is out of my life forever. Please, please, please listen to my advice and do what I wish I had done over a year and a few hundred dollars ago: avoid this brand for CD recording equipment.

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I waited for a long time the release of this new model from Philips. Trying to burn the seventh cd the unit entered into a mode (Disc Recover) not even described in the manual. No function of the cd recorder operated after this situation and the unit was returned to the store in exchange for other recorder of different brand.

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The features the cdr820 offers are exactly what I am looking for. With this machine and it's three trays you can program various tracks from the three trays in any order and record these all while the cdr820 adjusts volume/recording level automaticly. After recording from the three trays you can put in another 3 cds and add this to your compilation. This machine evens stops after each record song or program so that there are no long spaces inbetween song. the only problem is this feature lasts less than a day then the recorder starts doing whatever it feels like. sometimes it only records the first song of the program and continues to say it is recording, even though it isn't recording anything. the only way to stop this is to shut off the power and unplug the recorder, otherwise it would record nothing and stay in record mode indefinitely. sometimes while recording in 4x speed it changes to 1x speed and then back to 4x. the same goes for 2x speed. I originally bought the cdr800 and it did the same thing. I thought maybee I just purchased a bad unit, I guess I was wrong. Make sure if you purchase this product to get the extended warranty. If you have any problems within the first 30 days take it back and get your money back, don't wait, the problems won't go away.

Device works well with one FATAL flaw...while a single digital CDR of uncopyrighted material can be made from an external source (DAT via digital optical cable in my case), you can only make ANALOG copies of that CDR even though it came from an uncopyrighted external source. Now searching for a machine that will protect legitimate copyright holders but not constrain my uncopyrighted personal use recording.