July 2005

Home Cinema Choice

Picture and sound quality are superb, but with no component outputs and a difficult interface, there are much better step-ups from VCR

July 2005

Sound & Vision

Once I got past the cryptic symbols used by the onscreen display, the Philips DVDR 615 proved easy to use. Video performance was fine in the higher-resolution recording modes, though removing commercials was a little cumbersome.