hi i am wanting to go out & buy a philips DVD/VHS combined recorder ,but for one reason, to try & transfere data from VHS to DVD disc. there is one in ASDA for sale for a good price which i will get if this machiine as able to do the job i ask of it. does anyone have any information on this

I bought that same machine from ASDA back in January for £179.99 (I think!) and it's been fine for me. Pretty decent as a DVD recorder and it's pretty typical for playing videos (ie. it's not as good as VCRs from 15 years ago, but that goes for all current VCRs).
It's very easy to use for transfering from DVD-VHS or VHS-DVD. I would therefore recommend it.
It also has recording modes for 1hr, 2hr, 2hr20, 4hr and 6hr for DVD recordings, but you usually get about 5% more than that.

Oh and at least with Asda if it starts playing up then it would be pretty easy to return it for a refund, I would imagine.

well it was the cheaper version of duraband that got my goat,so now i have switched to philips

You won't be able to copy commercial protected VHS recordings to DVD. But you may have found that out by now.

well i havn't yet made that discovery yet,but what i did plan to do once i got the machine in place is copy all home made HVS to DVD & probably rebuy all perchased VHS to DVD ,only to find once i have done that ,blueray will be cheaper & readerly avalible,& once i have done that ,somthing else will come out & it will be all change yet again