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with TV Guide feed) is extremely unstable. Will tend to reset, hang, lose TV Guide channel/program information, "forget" to record programmed shows, forget to stop at the end of a recorded program, and probably a few other things that I forget because they didn't quite happen frequently enough.This is clearly a prematurely released product. When it works, it's great, but operation (esp. If had a dollar for every time this box crashed, it would have earned its purchase price back long ago.
This is a great idea if it would work better. Is there a better model out there.
I was refunded my purchase price but lost the $20 I paid for shipping plus the $9 it cost to return the unit. I purchased Toshiba RD XS55 DVR units with 250 GB hard drives from another source and they worked without problems. The DVR arrived dead out of the box. I would never try any Philips products again.
To use the remote control I have to point the tip of the control to the DVD I have to be very careful or it won t work , another possibilty is to come closer and then use the remote control , it does not make any sence.4) A little problems functionality : it doesn t have an eject button , it the remote control so you have to come to the appliance each time you want to eject the discs.5) It is too expensive , I paid less than 50 dollars for my second dvd and it works much better ( from every point of view ) the phillips dvd should not cost more than 120 only because of the hard drive.I hope do not not make the same mistake I did. I have one phillips dvd recorder and player with hard drive, it was very expensive , but is a very bad appliance here you have the reasons to avoid it :1) The quality of the image is poor , even when it is reading a dvd it might be similar to a VCR.2)I tried record all my personal stuff ( which I had in VHS) to dvds but the quality I got is very poor, I got also a lot of digital vibration on the images, it is very annoying to watch , it is much better to see the all VHS.3)Problems with the remomte control. regards
Too many issues to describe, but again I think its related to problems with the TV guide and poor software. It appears that it crashes frequently. This is a great idea. Worst is the time buffer. All for naught.
It crashes. When it crashes while recording a show, red lights light up around the DVD recorder and power switch then it powers off.I haven't figured out anyway for it to work. I don't know how people can save their videos without this feature. Get free listings, just highlite the show you want and its scheduled to record.
It will completely miss some recordings, sometimes record part of a show, often start recording but forget to stop and record almost 6 hours of whatever. Recording quality is very good, I even think the 8hr mode is watchable, but you don't need it cause you have so much room.The idea of the TV guide is great. The recording even saves the description of that episode.Everything sounds good right. I wish I could find some magic hint on the internet to help make it more reliable.I "assume" its a software problem, not a hardware problem.Oh, and the usability is amazingly bad.
I tried unsetting the TV guide, I tried setting explicit times to record, I tried setting the time manually. I don't think it has every properly recorder the 4 shows. Take whatever function and you'd never guess how unnatural an interface they came up with.
I bought a refurbished unit primarily so I can recode video from my DV camcorder to DVD. IT DOESN'T WORK.I have it scheduled to record 4 shows a day. The older Philips like this one will write the recording date and time to the DVD as subtitles.
Just one problem. Newer Philips don't do it anymore.Once we got it, I started liking the idea of using it as a hard drive recorder. The 120gig drive has plenty of room for lots of stuff.
If it worked, maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
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