Philips DVDR3305/05 DVD Recorder
Philips DVDR3305/05 DVD Recorder
Customer Review: Pathetic machine- even more pathetic customer helpline
I’ve had nothing but trouble with this machine since I bought it (not from Amazon). There is at least a 40 second delay after pushing any command buttons. Nightmare when you want to record anything improptu..by the time you’ve got an empty DVD in and waited for machine to acknowledge it and then press the record button, programme is almost over!!
Now after my warranty has run out, its decided to retain one of my DVD, the deck won’t open at all. Tried the customer helpline, after the long laborious menu,it eventually tells me the tel no. has changed, tried the new number and the message tells me to ring the original number… talk about going round in a circle! must have wasted three quid
Think I’ll just buy a new DVD-recorder…certainly won’t be another Philips.
I should have read customers’ reviews on this product before
buying.
Customer Review: Disappointed
Bought mine in Nov’05…have been rather disappointed with it since. Wish I’d looked at reviews first, this item has put me off Philips products totally. My father-in-law has a dvd/video combi, the dvd refuses to play sometimes unless you give it a tap or turn it upside-down and try again.
Very awkward to use, my wife is still unable to use it to record a program as its not straight forward at all. (no disrespect to the ladies but they are not normally technical minded about these things)
Have set dvd’s to 4 hour recording, recordings are sometimes pixellated.
There is no 3 hour record mode.
Menus are awkward to navigate through.
When Pdc is ON, it will not record the program I have set to record.
When recording using Videoplus you still have to set the record mode, ie AV1, AV2,F-AV etc.
The clock doesn’t set automatically when you switch on the mains plug, you have to manually set the clock if you want to set up a timed recording.
It takes a long time to initialise when you switch it on.
I did have trouble with it freezing up.
The remote has to be pointing directly at the machine for it to work.
Good points are it records onto dvd+ or - r/rw.
Wouldnt buy another Philips product again.
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