Philips DVDR5500/05
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With a hybrid TV tuner, recording both analogue and digital TV is a breeze. This recorder also features USB Direct for quick and easy transfer of photos and music.
Philips DVD Recorders support ‘dual media' recording - the ability to create recordings on DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R DL discs. Now you can buy any disc and the Philips recorder will always create fully compatible recordings, which can be played by any DVD player.
Multi-format playability allows you to play most file formats for maximum listening and viewing pleasure, including MP3, WMA, JPEG and the popular DivX digital media format. DivX playback enables you to play and share compressed high quality DivX video content beyond your computer.
Philips DVDR5500/05 Consumer Reviews
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Reviewed by eddymonkfish on 17/10/2009
Do not buy this 'recorder'. I say 'recorder' because it seldom acts like one! So many faults, the biggest being the frequency of it completely crashing without warning. As others have said, the only remedy is to pull the plug, then leave it for about half an hour, then wait for its long winded procedure of powering up; which perplexingly entails waiting for 2 red lights, then it going on to stand-by. After a good 2 minutes waiting for all this you then have to click the stand-by button to get it started. But this itself is a problem, as most of the time you press the stand-by button it doesnt turn on, and subsequently freezes itself up again! Cue the unplugging and sitting through the whole ordeal again, and again, and again until for no logical reason it decides to work and crash on you a couple of hours later. Once it finally has come on dont forget to set the time and date again, as with each crash comes a bout of amnesia for this pig of a machine. The booklet proudly champions customer service "register your product and get support at (philips website which Im not going to advertise for them on here)"- you dont get any support, unless the definition of "support" has recently changed to mean "useless spam emails about other philips products that probably also crash every half hour". I have emailed them twice, over 6 months ago and havent heard a word from them. Perhaps they are just too ashamed to even admit that they made this garbage. Playback is also sub-standard. It will sometimes record a whole disc worth of programmes and play them fine until BAM....your hit with a haymaker and the disc is suddenly unreadable. Try recording the final episodes of the Wire only to watch the second one day and the following day be met with a blank disc icon.So does it replace buying DVDs or Sky Plus? Absolutely not! So thats recorded discs out of the way, now move on to retail DVDs. Takes longer to boot the disc up, refuses to play some discs which my £9.99 Tesco DVD plays without problems. Then when you do get to watch the film dont dare press stop, or you risk HAL3000 switching itself off to save energy. Seriously I think when Philips made this device they implanted a chip that gave it conciousness, it even has the eerie red glow. The key difference however is that rather than having the intelligence of an AI that is capable of killing 2 astronauts, Philips seem to have accidentally programmed the player to be a dottering old scatterbrain that is either too tired to do as you say or just plain lazy. Maybe it is the new M.E chip?
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Reviewed by j prince on 09/08/2008
had three units in 8 months all kept freezing clearing discs when supposed to be recording and loads more problems too many to list and to frustrating ihave just had refund i wont buy phillips again
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Reviewed by G M Fozard on 29/04/2008
I am on my second unit since January 08.I sent the first back to Philips via Comet due to 1.Freezing.2. Intermittent / No video o/p from HDMI.3.Noisy Video via HDMI.4.Unable to upgrade s/w via either usb or cd.5. Unit would not go into auto standby.I received second different unit from Philips.No change.Just one more thing it is very sloooowwww in operation.Takes an age to decide if the discs are acceptable to itself before playing.Has actually erased one of my RWs discs and I cannot use it for anything.Do not even think of paying out for this unit.
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Reviewed by not happy on 23/02/2008
I bought this model recently and it keeps freezing so you have to turn off power at the wall to reset it.You some times canot open the disc draw quickly and the rec timer does not work properly and several different things and worst of all by the time you have sorted all the problems out the programme you have tried to record quickly you have missed 10mins.dont buy this I am off to the shop to take it back.
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