Remanufactured Philips DVDR3355-37 DVD Recorder with 8 Hour Digital Video Recording
Monday, September 22, 2008 14:03
Binding : Electronics
ProductGroup : CE
Manufacturer : Philips
Brand : Philips
Label : Philips
Publisher : Philips
Model : DVDR335537
Studio : Philips
Lowest Used Price: USD $306.99
- DVD+RW
- Dual Layer Recording
- 5.1 channel audio
- Disc Manager
- Guide Plus+ TV Guide
DVD Recorder, up to 8 hour record, DVD+RW, Divx, Dual layer recording
Amazon.com Product Description
Enjoy all your favorite DVD movies in flicker-free presentation and record your favorite TV programs to disc--via the built-in NTSC TV tuner--with the Philips DVDR3355/37 DVD Recorder. Philips makes it easy to create recordings and helps eliminate any confusion over disc format with dual-media support, enabling you to use DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW discs to record up to six hours of MPEG2 compressed video on a single-sided disc. For playback, it's compatible with VCD, SVCD, CD-R/RW, MP3-CD, and MP3-DVD disc formats and the EG2, MPEG1, Divx (3.11/4/5/6.x), and MPEG4 compression formats. It also supports simultaneous playback of JPEG pictures and MP3 music, enabling you to run a photo slideshow with music playing in the background.
For setting up timed recordings, the DVDR3355/37 uses the VCR Plus+ system. All you need to do to program your video recorder is to enter the "Pluscode"--a single code of up to nine digits (but usually less)--that is printed next to each TV program in most TV guides. This unit also includes a Firewire port (also known as i.LINK and IEEE 1394) on the front, enabling you to easily connect your digital video camcorder and download video and audio directly to disc in their original digital quality.
Recording and disc editing features include chapter marker, insertion, divide, erase, manual chapter marking, one-touch record, and selectable index pictures. Other features include a 20-event, 1-month programmable recording, daily/weekly repeat recording, Dolby Digital encoding, and tri-lingual menu display (English, French, Spanish). It offers the following video and audio connections:
- Composite AV (RCA) In: 2 (1 front)
- Composite AV (RCA) Out: 1
- S-Video In: 2 (1 front)
- S-Video Out: 1
- Component Video Out (Y PB PR): 1
- RF In: 1
- Coaxial digital audio Out: 1
- Firewire: 1
What's in the Box
DVD player/recorder, remote control (with batteries), AV cable, RF cable, printed operating instructions
VERY BAD DESCRIPTION (2009-01-19)
the product says 8hrs recording but this thing only records 6hrs they need to change this description.
you get what you pay for i guess (2006-11-04)
I purchased this dvdr because the price was right and because it had the ability to record shows on a daily/weekly basis (I had previously purchased and returned a Panasonic brand that was more expensive but did not have this capability). After having it for a couple of months, I am finding that it has a number of annoying "quirks".
Firstly, when the machine is turned off it displays the time. However, almost every morning I wake up to find that it has turned itself on in the middle of the night and gotten itself into a mode where it now says "Menu". I then have to hit the power button to get it to turn off properly and to display the time again. Not such a big deal, but a minor annoyance.
The bigger deal (which I just discovered a couple of days ago) was that I had to manually change the time for daylight savings time and after I did so my scheduled recordings got screwed up (they are no longer recording properly... one show didn't even record at all... I had to manually hit the record button in order to get it to record), and then I noticed that a day or two after I changed the date and time it automatically reset itself to a random date and time.
Anyway, I am having a lot of bizarre problems with it. I don't know if it is because it is "remanufactured" or if they are all quirky like mine, but I don't think that I would recommend this to anyone. Unless you want to buy it because it's inexpensive and hope for the best that yours won't suffer from the same problems as mine, I would recommend spending a little more money and buying something of a higher quality.
