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Thread: All who have "Older" Philips CD Recorder Models. |
    
diamond4151 Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 12:48 pm: |
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I don't know if this will work for everyone but it's worth a try. I have the Philips CDR-775, the innerworkings of this model and other relesed before and after this one IE; CDR-785 3+1, CDR-765, and others around the same years, 1999,2000,2001. It would be my guess that the same technology was used for the recording part. I have too run in to the "Can't find Blank Media" for my CDR-775. First let me say that I don't have anything against Best Buy, I buy most,if not all of my products there, the staff sometimes are less to be desired. If the question asked to any and I mean any of the sales/floor staff about what is compatable for the Philips machines, they really don't know!!! At least in my stores around me. They are mostly kids who work part time for the cash. Here's my fix for you that have the same problem. If it is possible for you to be able to get 1 or 2 disc of the Memorex CDRW(74 min/650MB)you should have no problem recording and finalizing. Once you have done that, if you have a PC with a CD-Rom and a CD-Recorder/DVD-Recorder, a copying program and the regular type CD-R's for a computer, you can make cd's for your listening pleasure. I do admit it seems like a lot of work and more steps than needed, but it will work. I simply record what I want onto the CDRW, finalize it, put it into my PC open my copying program, put any blank disc in the recorder and hit copy to CD-R and presto! I have a cd that will play in anything. The best thing about the CDRW is you can un-finalize it and erase it! You can start all over again. If anybody had the capability to do it this way, you should have no problems any more. I know it sounds long and tedious. Just try it if you can. Unfortunitly the worst case is that the laser is out of alingment. If that is it, it would be better just to buy a new machine at that point. In most, however, the "OPC ERROR" means that the machine dose not reconize the blank media that you have put in it. It does NOT mean you have a miss-alinment with the laser. I hope this will help any who read this, keep in mind though that this is what worked for me, it may NOT work for everyone. Good Luck and Happy Recording. |
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New member Username: Doorz
Post Number: 2
Registered: Mar-06
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| Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 10:37 am: |
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(I already put this somewhere else, but is seems to me this information is best placed here)
Hello, I own a Philips CDR 760, which i have modified using the Modchip mentioned earlier in this thread, it was fairly easy to install, you only needed to solder on a few wires according to the instructions on their site. It is now able to record on computer CDR's, but it seems to me that without a firmware upgrade (which will probably never happen anyway) sooner or later there will no more discs which are compatible. I have used the old Fuji Audio rewritable 74min for a long time (actually till they gave out because of scratches), i also used the Maxell CDRWXG 80 minutes, until now the most reliable disc. This recorder only uses the 1-4x speed computer CDRW's (the audio version always was 1-2 speed), which means that nowadays the choice even for computer CDR's is quite small, so it it questionable if it is still worthwhile to modify the recorder today. anyway, just to satisfy the curious, i can use standard Maxell CR-R 80 52x, Sony CD-RW 700mb/80min multispeed 1-2-4x, Acer 1-2-4x 650mb/74 min, T'n B 4x max 650mb. I also have tried the TDK 1-4 CDRW's but these seem to be borderline (OCR sometimes fails), same thing with Memorex 700MB/4X CDRW's, some discs work perfectly, others not at all. nowadays the Sony 1-4x CDRW are the best choice (always keeping in mind that my recorder has been modified)
btw i use the same method as diamond4151 - i record my vinyl on CDRW, copy it to my PC and eliminate editing errors and scratches and copy back to a standard CD-R. |
New member Username: Honus
Miami,
FL
USA
Post Number: 4
Registered: Mar-06
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| Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 12:09 pm: |
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I have used Mitsui CDR's exclusively for some time and there is none better IMHO. My older Philips 785 also gave out and was no longer compatible with Mitsui's process and I got a Sony CD recorder which is a wonderful machine. I'm back in CDR heaven now. |
New member Username: Lapratho
Post Number: 1
Registered: Jul-07
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| Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2007 - 05:47 pm: |
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I have a CDR-785, I think I got it 2001.
This is now July 2007, and I just bought a 75 pack of Music-CDRs at Costco, 80min, 700MB, TDK brand.
The machine acts a little funny when burning from analog (vinyl) and doesn't show the correct track (doing the second side of an LP it stays on track 1 in display) and starts the time left at 80 mins again, until you play the disk and allow an update.
Other than that, they work dandy!
I pushed "Finalize" and the disk is just fine.
I DO prefer to burn onto a CDRW first though, because if I miss the end of the vinyl groove, and the disk just recorded 10 minutes of quiet, or popping static, I can erase it and start fresh - then I simply copy the beast to a CDR for the final version.
That saves me getting a lot of coasters out of the machine  |
New member Username: Greg729
Richmond,
Va
United States
Post Number: 1
Registered: Oct-07
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| Posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 - 12:41 am: |
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New to the group.
I have a Philips 770 recorder... Would appreciate a pointer to the mod. that will allow recording on PC cds. |
New member Username: Ice_monkey
Post Number: 1
Registered: Dec-07
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| Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2007 - 07:26 am: |
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PS.
does anybody have a diagram on how to install the modchip? please help! |
New member Username: Drrobert
Grand Island,
Nebraska
USA
Post Number: 1
Registered: Sep-08
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| Posted on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 02:49 pm: |
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I've inherited a Philips 775 recorder, but not the remote. Is there a way to boost the recording signal? My previous RCA deck had a nice little feature that let you boost or cut the input strength. Right now I'm recording things okay, but I'm running into problems when I try to play them in other systems (such as a Philips bookshelf system at work), because I have to max out the volume to get anything close to a normal playback level. |
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