Philips DVDR3570 - 160Gb Hard Drive DVD Recorder - Black
Philips DVDR3570 - 160Gb Hard Drive DVD Recorder - Black
Take control over your TV.
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Customer Review: If these come back in stock then don’t hesitate, just buy one.
These machines are awesome, I got DVDs mine as a refurb and they gave me a 12 month warantee!!! Not a scratch on it, just like new. The that this thing churns out play great, no jumps when you play it back on my computer like with my dads lite on recorder. I’ve still kept my Aldi divx player for now to play my downloads and to hook up to my surround as it has a built in 5.1 decoder (not the panasonic) Anyway, I’ve used this machine to sucssesfully transfer some of my old VHS tapes to as they were gathering dust on the shelf and I want to move into 2007 with them, don’t like VHS any more I want everything on DVD, much more compact and better looking. A word on this recorder, it’s almost multiformat as in it records on DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-Ram and oddly enough DVD+R but not DVD+RW??? Maybee panasonic will bring out a firmware upgrade for this baby so that it will do DVD+RW. I don’t really care for now though, it’s a great machine. I know that it has standard analogue tuners (2 tuners, what a great idea, you can record BBC1 on VHS and ITV on DVD! At the same time!) and Analogue is getting phased out soon but you have 2 scart sockets at the back, whats to stop you from pluging 2 digiboxes into it? At just over ?0.00 each from Asda you can’t go wrong!!! The timeslip function is brilliant. You can record tv onto DVD-RAM (I think timeslip works with other formats too but have not tested it properly yet) press pause, go make a brew and continue on from where you left off, you could even fast forward the adverts if the machine has been paused for a while, have your brew when you want it, not when Channel 4 decide!!! Quality on the VHS is excelent, much better than my old Akai machine (had 4 heads) this machine has 6 heads making for better quality. I was going to buy one of Asdas DVD/VHS combo’s but when I realised it only had a mono VHS I turned round and walked away, it was ?0.00 cheaper but when your spending this kind of money you want it to be more future proof than that. Chances are everything will come down when Blu-ray and HDDVD starts selling big style but I will still have this machine as long as there still selling DVD-/+R’s Besides at 100,000 overwrites my 5 DVD-RAM disks will last me a lifetime!!!
Customer Review: Simpler than it looks
I have been very impressed with this Panasonic Video and DVD recorder as it does what it says on the tin! Copying from DVD to Video tape, video tape to DVD, from TV to DVD from TV to Video and also from TV to both DVD and Video at the same time recording different channels!! What more can you ask I hear you cry? Having considered the cheaper Daewoo unit, but having looked at the feedback comments, I chose the Panasonic and have been totally impressed with this slightly more expensive unit. The manual is a bit mind blowing at first, but once I settled down to it and practised a little it all became very simple and logical, so don’t be too put off by the manual. A brilliant machine and a welcome addition under the TV as I can now get rid of my DVD player, Video recorder and DVD recorder and replace it with one neat attractive unit which does the lot! Now where is that ebay button?
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80GB Hard Drive DVD Recorder model with Digital Tuner.
Customer Review: Switches off every 5-10 minutes - stay away from this!
It is too late for me to return the product to Amazon, but I will see what I can do with the Sony customer services. I have used it for a month and, with a few minor problems, it has worked OK for 3 weeks. In the last week, however, it keeps switching off VERY frequently. It does so when I watch TV and also when I am watching TV. On the TV, it freezes for a few minutes, so you lose 5 minutes every time it switches off - frozen image, switch off, switch on again and bring it back to the right channel. I am going back to my cheap freeview box + dvd player. If I cannot return the dvd recorder, I will only use it for the occasional recording, but then it is far too expensive for this!
Customer Review: Sony DVD recorder just keeps powering off
Bought this recorder in March 2007. Initially thought it was fantastic but after a few weeks started powering off at random times. This week, despite putting everything to the factory defaults I am now trying to return it to Amazon. It can be ok and then will power off and try to restart. My wife has missed loads of programmes and is not happy. We have loads of Sony gear, telly, camcorder etc and always thought Sony was great. First Sony product I have had which has been faulty (replaced a Sony video recorder which was brilliant) I think I am being harsh but I expect a really high standard from Sony - might have expected this from some unknown brand.
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