I've been waiting to get a DVD Recorder to replace the VCR for months so wanted something that was at least reliable, incorporated all the benefits of the VCR and then some. Philips seems to be company at the forfront of the market so were my safe choice. Pricewise the DVDR's are now affordable at around £200.
I was suprised at the size of the R80 - its as big as a VCR but is still quite neat and attractive. These things are important to my other half.
The manual is quite thick, thats ok I thought, 3/4's will be foreign. Unfortunately no, it was all English so lots to take in.
Plugging in was just the same as a VCR.
Set up was almost automatic but quite slow.
I managed to record pretty quickly afterwards but the Guide+ (TV Guide) was incomprehensive. This did rectify itself over a few days.
The SKY compatability was the key for me to choose this recorder and it is everything I wanted in being automatic via the ext and remote link. This is where a few problems occurred. Everytime SKY came on it set the DVDR to record and sent me mad for a day or two until I read the manual fully and dissabled the EXT Auto Link.
I had a few problems initially with the dates abd times being out of sink but it seems to have rectified itself this week.
Overall I'm quite pleased. It does everything a VCR does, works with Digital Sky, has great picture quality, uncludes a TV Guide to help record and generally records what I want. The price is reasonable and I'm glad I took the plunge into DVDR.
There are a few niggles but they I can live with that.
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Advantages: Lots of recording space, Quality tuner and picture, so far reliable Disadvantages: Editing tools could be more flexible, Analogue channels only on tuner
suddenend 19.05.2006 ·
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