Epinions Recent Reviews for Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Philips PCRW 804 CDRW 800 Series CD Rewriter - Practically Worthless!

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:16:37 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author ragamuffinjim - Never Worked! I bought the Philips PCRW-804 CDRW 800 Series CD Rewriter at Best Buy on 12/31/00 for $129.99 - $30 rebate. I moved soon afterward and put the unopened unit in storage. The rebate arrived as promised, but I was not able to unpack and...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Philips gets it right this time...

Mon, 29 Oct 2001 04:51:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jghanisco - **Updated** **Jan 20, 2002**

Geez Quasar, why did I get a "helpful" rating only? *Sniff*

Anyway, I noticed that Philips has updated the firmware for this drive, up to version 2.5, and I've flashed the burner. Lo and behold,...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Sure Beats the HECK Out of Zip and Floppy Disks!

Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:31:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cypress - I have a 100 meg Zip Drive that came with my computer, but as far as using it for backups, it sucks - the money right of your pocket, that is! Those zip disks ain't cheap! I also have had 2 zip disks go south on me, and I lost all the data that was on...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Excellent Choice For Under $100

Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:01:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rpllingrock - Finding a need to add another CD-R(W) to my home, I set out to purchase a brand name drive for under $100 for reasons I outline below.

This opinion pertains to the Philips CDRW 800 Series (804) using firmware v2.2, on a...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Philips PCRW804: A Great CD-RW for a Great Price

Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:10:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gorocco - When I bought my Dell Dimension 8100 computer, I opted not to get a CD-RW drive with it. Why? I thought I could save $60 and scavenge an old drive from my brother. Then I ran across the Philips PCRW804 Internal IDE 8x/4x/32x CD-RW drive at a...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Great Burner

Sun, 8 Jul 2001 00:32:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author MQB0010 - The Philips 800 Series Cd-RW Burner is a great burner to have. It works well when burning downloaded music from the internet and copying CD's. The Software the burner comes with makes it simple to create a mix Cd or copy data from your pc or other Cd...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: The craziest computer device I know. It BURNS CD's!!!

Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:51:07 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author meatex z - 1. What's inside

The Philips CDRW 800 series comes with Adaptec Direct CD and Easy CD Creator software, and there was also a bonus - Ejay software included in the pack. Ejay is a music-creating program - not the best one. Easy CD Creator is one of...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Phillips PCRW804-low price, decent performance

Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:10:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author suemccartin - I wanted a rewritable cd drive to backup my hundreds of digital photos and also some important data that had been clogging up a large number of floppy disks. CD burners require a relatively fast computer with a large hard drive to store temporary files...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Burn, baby, burn

Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:16:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author coleb - To relieve my hard drive of its numerous Napster files, I decided it was time to purchase a CD Burner. I compared brands, read epinions and was between the Philips 800 Series and entry-level Sony Spressa. I went to Best Buy and both drives were within...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Great burner

Wed, 7 Mar 2001 22:54:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author IversonJr911 - When i finally convinced my mom to get me a burner i went into best buy expecting to spend at least $150. I was shocked when i found this one for $120 ($2o mail in rebate)so it came out to about $110. Once i got home installation was a snap. Just pop the...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: be prepared to spend many hours burning

Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:26:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mad_typist - I got the Philips 8x CDRW last Christmas and within fifteen minutes of opening it, I had it installed and running. Installation was a snap - most users should have little problem. The software installation was just as easy.

The software...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Great for Novices and Experts

Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:14:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author freestyle - When I received the Phillips PC800, I was both excited and worried at the same time. Excited because I've wanted one for a long time, but worried that I wouldn't know how to install it. My worries were not needed.

Within an hour I installed it...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Simple, yet fun

Tue, 9 Jan 2001 20:28:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author harlumjp - I cannot tell anyone more than I already have how useful it is to have a CD burner around. Especially an internal one. The external drives are much to expensive to purchase. The CDRW800 was bought by me because I wanted to save money and still have a...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Nice Drive. Great for Audio Cd's

Sun, 7 Jan 2001 02:55:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jwclark1122 - This is one of the best CD-RW drives I’ve owned. The drive is fast. You can make you a cd in about 9 mins. This drive does a very good job on Audio Extraction from CD’s. This drive also supports background formatting. Which means it doesn’t...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: "Lets Make Things Better" Philips

Wed, 3 Jan 2001 16:37:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author grog0025 - After reading a couple reviews that disliked this product because of customer service I felt depressed because I have this CDRW burner and I love it! While costumer is extremely important to the people of today I feel that in almost any big company such...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: horrible customer service experience

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:33:40 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author vaughnlw - I write this message as I hold on the telephone line waiting to speak with my fifth Philips customer service representative today. In short, I'm not happy with my Philips CDRW804.

I received this CDRW as a Christmas gift and as of yet, I've...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Excellent quality drive. Period.

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 12:46:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mbuechler - I received the Philips CD-RW drive for Christmas as a gift, and I couldn't be happier with it! The quality is excellent, the software installation was flawless and it works beautifully.

I've used a few different CD-RWs over the years and have...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Best Bang for the Buck!!!

Fri, 22 Dec 2000 22:29:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author deepthinker - I had been putting off the purchase of a CD-RW drive for some time now. Well, Best Buy had this little beauty for $149 with a $30 rebate. An 8x4x32 CD-RW for $119!!! The software installed with ease and without complication and I was up and burning...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: A Great Value!

Fri, 22 Dec 2000 14:14:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author nirvana_rj - I bought this CD-Writer for about $100.00 (after rebates) from BestBuy.

Its a great price for a 8X CD-Writer. Hardware installation was a breeze.

I installed it on a Windows 95 machine. This CD writer came with the

Adaptec CD recording...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Philps CDR800 Rocks

Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:24:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author calisa8 - This little cdrw rocks! Although the software that comes with this drive is horrible (adaptec cd creator 4 standard) the drive is great! I highly recommend using another CD burning program like NERO with this drive. It installed quickly, and has burned...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: a CDRW to Keep

Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:24:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tinasamuels - I bought my Philips CDRW 800 to use when it was clear that I need to transfer my files onto CD's instead of clinging to diskettes as I had previously. I went into Best Buy and they had this one on sale for like $179 and had a rebate, so I just bought it...

Philips PC 800 Series Internal CDRW: Fantastic To Say The Least

Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:58:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mikep850 - I honestly don't know why I chose this product, but I'm glad I did. I wanted to buy a cd burner for a long time. My friend has had one for a long time and he really puts it use. I decided to get one after I realized how nice it would be, and how much...