

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. I have too run in to the "Can't find Blank Media" for my CDR-775. It would be my guess that the same technology was used for the recording part. 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.
I do admit it seems like a lot of work and more steps than needed, but it will work. 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. 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. Here's my fix for you that have the same problem. They are mostly kids who work part time for the cash.

Maxell CD-R are perfect for storing your music downloads, recording data, videos and photographs etc. Good Luck and Happy Recording.624035. 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.
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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. Product Name, 40x Music CD-R.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. Product Type, CD Recordable Media.
I have dropped jaws of my friends in our little afternoon listening session in my pal's HiFi and vinyl store, and the recordings were made using the CDR 785, a Dual 1242 or a Dual 510 (have a collection of Duals, but those are my favs for playing) fitted with a home made custom matt and an Audio Technica OC-9 moving coil cartridge fed into a Music Hall MMF-Phono-Pack plugged directly into the CDR-785.BTW: I have been using the same two Sony 74 minute CD-RW disks of type CWM74 since I bought my CDR 785 brand new in 2001, and they still work!Since I practically do exclusively analog vinyl burns, I had too many coasters in the early days. Nothing else can be recorded, because it is a one time recording medium.If what you are using is a MUSIC CD-RW (rewritable), and you get the finalized CD warning, do this:Wait , until you get the "UNFINALIZE?" prompt.This takes a few seconds, maybe 5 or so - seems like an eternity when you wait for it )Your selector wheel on the far right has a "NO" button to its left, and a "YES" button on the right.If you get the "UNFINALIZE?" prompt, the "YES" button will be lit.The countdown begins and the disk is wiped while you see "UNFINAL" on the display.When it is done, you can select your recording source and record again.Since there are several CD recording modes and the CDR 785 is a fairly complex beast to operate and get used to (it took me a few hours to go through all the options at the time, and I am computer nerd by profession!), getting CD-RW disks is the ONLY way to go without burning a whole bunch of coastersHowever, this machine is worth every minute of effort, because it is really capable of audiophile quality recordings from analog sources. 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.Posted on Sunday, Novem18:18 GMTAs to what to do to record on your CDR-785, when you see the "FINALIZED CD" prompt:If the CD you are trying to use is a plain CD-R, you are done if there is already music or data on it. 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. 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. 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.
