Philips Hard Disk/DVD Recorder 160 GB - DVDR3576H/37
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PHILIPS DVDR3576H/37 160 GB Hard Disk/DVD Recorder
PHILIPS DVDR3576H/37 160 GB Hard Disk/DVD Recorder
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I am impressed with the Philips DVDR3576H DVD Recorder features and ease of use, however, I was not impressed when after 2 weeks, the DVD would shut down in the middle of a recording or during play. After the 3rd incident I contacted Amazon.Com. Within 24 hours I was provided a replacement order number and the shipment mode was upgraded. Concurrently and unlike other retail companies, Amazon.Com provides free UPS returns. Amazon.Com is a credible company with outstanding customer support...will always be my first choice when shopping on-line!
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This unit performs reasonably well. Here are the main downsides:
1. The unit has the ability to record all tracks from a DVD to the HD, as indicated on p.53 of the manual. This would be useful for say dubbing a home movie DVD to HD so you could re-edit or reburn a different disk with different tracks for other family members. If you have say 40 short clips to dub, this feature would be great since you could start it and let it copy all 40 tracks ("titles" in DVD lingo). Unfortunately it doesn't work. Well, it works, but only if the DVD you want to dub from is writable (has room left to record and is not finalized), which will not often be the case. This makes more sense if you are trying to dub from the HD to the DVD. But from DVD to HD? Why is this necessary? The company won't say. They just say it's just not designed to do that even though the manual says otherwise. So instead you have to do an analog copy from another DVD player, then break up the single full disk play into
1. The unit has the ability to record all tracks from a DVD to the HD, as indicated on p.53 of the manual. This would be useful for say dubbing a home movie DVD to HD so you could re-edit or reburn a different disk with different tracks for other family members. If you have say 40 short clips to dub, this feature would be great since you could start it and let it copy all 40 tracks ("titles" in DVD lingo). Unfortunately it doesn't work. Well, it works, but only if the DVD you want to dub from is writable (has room left to record and is not finalized), which will not often be the case. This makes more sense if you are trying to dub from the HD to the DVD. But from DVD to HD? Why is this necessary? The company won't say. They just say it's just not designed to do that even though the manual says otherwise. So instead you have to do an analog copy from another DVD player, then break up the single full disk play into
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I own the DVDR3575H model and posted a review December 7th, 2008. This is the new model, the DVDR3576H, but the specs appear to be the same and it looks and appears identical to mine except the DVDR3575H is all black. This is somewhat of a rehash as well as an update to my previous posting.
I am giving this 4 stars primarily because it remains the only DVR/DVD recorder in the US market and the only non fee DVR in the US market. Every major electronics manufacturer in the US market had DVR'S available through 2004-2006. I believe do to pending litigation the other players have left the US market. You can still get numerous DVR models in Europe and Asia from the other manufacturers, including multiple models from Phillips. Sizes range there from 80GB all the way to one terabyte. But here thanks to law suits we have only this 160GB model from Phillips.
The DVR recorder is simple to use and easy to play back. The menu is primitive, but fairly ease to navigate. You can record about 30 hours
I am giving this 4 stars primarily because it remains the only DVR/DVD recorder in the US market and the only non fee DVR in the US market. Every major electronics manufacturer in the US market had DVR'S available through 2004-2006. I believe do to pending litigation the other players have left the US market. You can still get numerous DVR models in Europe and Asia from the other manufacturers, including multiple models from Phillips. Sizes range there from 80GB all the way to one terabyte. But here thanks to law suits we have only this 160GB model from Phillips.
The DVR recorder is simple to use and easy to play back. The menu is primitive, but fairly ease to navigate. You can record about 30 hours
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