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Rick Rizner
Even though Philips is one of the companies behind the DVD+R format, the DVDR3355 can record to DVD-R/RW discs as well as to DVD+R/RW. This gesture toward detente in the DVD wars doesn't seem to have extended to the manual, however: While DVD+R receives extensive coverage, DVD-R is mentioned only in the specifications section.
The DVDR3355 is also the only no-hard-drive DVD recorder we reviewed for our January 2006 roundup that can play both DivX and other types of MPEG-4 files, a huge plus if you want to play videos that you downloaded from the Internet or encoded yourself using those formats. On the other hand,...