Philips DVDR3575H DVD Recorder

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Philips DVDR3575H

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Desktop, Firewire, USB, HDMI, 160GB HDD, ATSC Tuner

$350

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ATSC, USB
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720p/1080i Upscaling
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dramulet from Canada reported February 09, 2009:
Read features:						Time used:	Rating:
CDR CDRW?	DVD-R DVD-RW? DVD-R DL?	DVD+R DVD+RW? DVD+R DL?	VCD XVCD? XSVCD?	SVCD SVCDSubs? SVCDTracks?	MP3? CVD?	over 1 year	8 of 10
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Does everything I could want except play PAL media. If you load a Xvid with either sub or srt file, it will ask you to select between the two. However, it hasn't ever been able played a .sub file but every .srt file worked great.

joecass from United States reported December 24, 2008:
Read features:						Time used:	Rating:
CDR? CDRW?	DVD-R DVD-RW DVD-R DL?	DVD+R DVD+RW DVD+R DL?	VCD? XVCD? XSVCD?	SVCD? SVCDSubs? SVCDTracks?	MP3? CVD?	240 days	7 of 10
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I bought my Philips DVDr 3575H refurbished in April and have been using it weekly without any major problems. I did a lot of reading of user reports before I bought, however I wanted a decent HDD model with ATSC/QAM tuner. I have Time Warner digital cable, on the QAM side there are about 60+ channels unencrypted that I pick up with my LG HDTV and set top LG HD tuner. The Philips Auto Channel Scan only picked up 4 or 5 digital channels, I was a bit perplexed. I called Philips customer service and was advised to enter channel numbers manually, which I did following the channel numbers on aforementioned LG equipment. It was only after entering channel numbers manually was I able to pick up all the digital QAM stations from my cable line. Afterward, I tried setting timers on digital stations, sometimes it would work, sometimes not. I found that at random intervals the Philips would turn on for a timer event, but did not properly tune in the desired station, so a blank blue screen emerged as the timed program. Sometimes scrolling through digital channels, the tuner won't tune anything and just show the blank blue screen. When I toggle between analog and digital reception, then the digital stations will reappear. Very frustrating. Called tech support again, seems the problem is with the signal strength on my incoming line. Some digital channels work well with timers, others won't work at all. Don't know if this is peculiar to my machine, as in a defect, but I've learned to live with it. Second anomaly I've noticed is the recorded picture quality it a tad dark compared to other DVD equipment I own. There aren't any adjustments for picture settings in the menu so it's another quirk I accepted owning this machine. Picture clarity is very good in SP mode and very acceptable in LP mode. The Philips DVD drive is a bit on the slow side, but dubbing from HDD to DVD is quite reasonable. There are different dubbing options depending on what you want to do. The remote is pretty simple to operate, editing functions on the hdd side is pretty easy. Instead of having to divide a title like most recorders, you just select a portion of the recording and edit it out. This will affect Chapter marks previously made, which will remain after editing out unwanted material. The Menu system is relatively simple to navigate, I've rarely had to consult the manual. One nice feature is Direct Dubbing, put in a DVD made on other equipment, just hit the direct dubbing button on the remote and it will copy the DVD to the hard drive for editing or re-burning to another DVD. The Philips will not read DVD-RW discs recorded in VR mode. So far I have used DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD+RW without any major problems. The 160gb hard drive is enough to hold many hours of SP or LP recorded material. When you hit the Title button for either hdd or dvd, working thumbnails appear of each recorded program, and the programs can be named before or after recording. For the price I paid, $199 plus the $16 warranty fee, it's a very useful piece of equipment. It may not have the best picture quality or digital tuner available, but overall the machine is easy to use and well worth the price.

gspanos@comcast.net from United States reported January 25, 2008:
Read features:						Time used:	Rating:
CDR? CDRW?	DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL?	DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL?	VCD? XVCD? XSVCD?	SVCD? SVCDSubs? SVCDTracks?	MP3? CVD?	N/A	No rating
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gspanos@comcast.net from United States reported January 24, 2008:
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CDR? CDRW?	DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL?	DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL?	VCD? XVCD? XSVCD?	SVCD? SVCDSubs? SVCDTracks?	MP3? CVD?	N/A	No rating
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wabjxo from United States reported December 23, 2007:
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CDR? CDRW?	DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL?	DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL?	VCD? XVCD? XSVCD?	SVCD? SVCDSubs? SVCDTracks?	MP3? CVD?	N/A	No rating
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rroberson from United States reported November 29, 2007:
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CDR? CDRW?	DVD-R? DVD-RW DVD-R DL?	DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL?	VCD? XVCD? XSVCD?	SVCD? SVCDSubs? SVCDTracks?	MP3? CVD?	N/A	No rating
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trossin from United States reported October 15, 2007:
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CDR? CDRW?	DVD-R DVD-RW? DVD-R DL?	DVD+R DVD+RW DVD+R DL?	VCD? XVCD? XSVCD?	SVCD? SVCDSubs? SVCDTracks?	MP3? CVD?	3 days	9 of 10
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I'm very pleased with this machine. I read a couple reviews and downloaded the manual. It sounded like it might be hard to use but it does everything I want it to do plus has features that I didn't know I wanted till I saw them in action. I use an attic mounted antenna with amplifier and live 60 miles from Denver. So I'm used to some snow on the screen. This snow does not freak out the MPEG encoder and stations that come in pretty clear look great. This thing can even bring in 6 digital TV stations and they look great. I'm fringe so one of them comes in sometimes and other times it just leaves macro block turds on the screen. Bottom line, the tuner works as well if not better than my TV and VCR tuners. Also, the antenna pass through does not kill the signal. The pause live TV feature works well and is easy to figure out. Timer or one time recording is a snap. There is no on screen TV guide but how would I get that anyway without cable or a telephone line hooked to it? It is possible and easy to play back a previously recorded show while recording another. It is also possible to start watching the beginning of a show while recording it and catching up to it by skipping commercials. The play back selection is cool in that it displays a title (if you are willing to type it in), the date and time recorded, plus a video/audio thumbnail of the program. This helps out a lot as you get lots of programs recorded so you do not have to have the TV guide memorized. The machine has a USB port on the front pannel that I stuck a USB drive into with some JPEG pictures on it. It displayed them in a slide show with only a few remote button presses. I was able to copy (dub) a recording from the hard disk to a DVD and was able to play that disk (and read) on my computer. They made this very easy. I did not try out the editing features as I will do that on the computer but it looks pretty easy. The only negatives that I have discovered are that you have to push a button on the remote to switch between digital and analog TV. It would be nice if you just hit channel up and down and it would roll through the list of analog and digital. The other negative is that it seems to navigate menus on DVD-R disk very slowly. When you select a title, it can take 5 to 10 seconds to get there. I have not tried a studio disk yet but my DVD+R disks seemed ok.

Gary Gohrt from Canada reported August 28, 2007:
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CDR CDRW?	DVD-R DVD-RW? DVD-R DL?	DVD+R? DVD+RW? DVD+R DL?	VCD XVCD? XSVCD?	SVCD SVCDSubs? SVCDTracks?	MP3 CVD?	30 days	8 of 10
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Bought it from Best Buy Canada for ~$275.00 USD on a price match with with a web store I found online. Paid an extra $75 for 4 year extended warranty because this is not my first HDD-DVD recorder. Menuing system is a little awkward to figure out at first. Editing has nice feature which allows pause frame scene deletes. My old LiteOnBad LVW5045 did not have this feature, instead requiring that you split up a title first and deleted scenes individually only after splitting then remerging titles. Allows splitting titles but does not allow merging them again afterwards. My old LiteOn allowed that feature. Also will not copy material from finalized DVD-Rs back to HDD. Once you finalize a disk it is essentially a one way transfer. Again LiteOn model freely allowed dubbing back and forth between DVD and HDD. Timer allows up to 32 events. Dubbing also has a nice feature that allows recording an oversized file from HDD to DVD by playing back and recompressing on the fly. Drawback is that this occurs in real time while you are forced to sit thru the entire movie. Much longer filenames than the old LiteOn are available. LiteOn was limited to displaying 12 character filenames in thumbnail mode. I think this one can handle up to 32 characters always visible. One annoying "feature." An index thumbnail can only be set once a file has been burned to a DVD. When viewing on HDD menu, thumbnails automatically begin playing Picture in Picture style when highlighted. I personally find this somewhat unnerving and annoying for cataloguing purposes. Burn speed for 1:45 of video is approx 25 minutes on Prodisc and Taio Yuden 8X media. These brands are not specifically recommended by Philips but were for my LiteOn hence I still have a lot of old stock. Personally I don't really care for the brands that Philips recommends though I may try buying a test pack to see if it speeds up the burns. A burned DVD WILL NOT FINALIZE if there is a timer event scheduled less than an hour away. This because in their infinite insanity, Philips decided that the drive requires up to an hour to finalize a disk. In reality the process takes 2-3 minutes. I've updated firmware once. The procedure is very wonky and scary. Two files must be updated one at at time, using a procedure that requires keypresses on the remote that do not work as described by Philips' docs page. I had to preface each command sequence with the clear key in order to get the firmware routines to work as advertised. Even then there is no clean reboot or menu upon a successful upgrade. After upgrading each of the two files, I had to unplug the machine physically from the outlet in order to get it to reboot. This is quite scary when you are updating firmware the first time on a new machine. I had to repeat the unplugging to reboot for each of the necessary firmware files. Compared to the LiteOn I have to say that a firmware reboot on this machine is a total butcher's hack job from the get go. I'd only recommend flashing this machine if you have absolutely no other choice. Other than that though, it seems to serve its function OK, recording and editing TV shows and movies for permanent recording onto DVD-R's.

Terry near Baltimore from United States reported August 20, 2007:
Read features:						Time used:	Rating:
CDR? CDRW?	DVD-R? DVD-RW? DVD-R DL?	DVD+R DVD+RW? DVD+R DL?	VCD? XVCD? XSVCD?	SVCD? SVCDSubs? SVCDTracks?	MP3 WMA CVD?	3 days	8 of 10
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Because I wanted a DVD Recorder that also had NTSC, ATSC and QAM tuners (ALL 3!), as well as an internal hard drive with lots of capacity, I settled on this one. Wow, a very good decision. I paid $298 for it at Wal-Mart (last one...wahoo!!). I fiddled with the remote all weekend to try out the many features. Here are a few comments... 1. The remote's operation is not entirely intuitive, but it does work. The DVDR could use a "Favorites" feature! 2. The HDD pause feature for live TV works well, even on HDTV viewing. 3. The channel selection while viewing digital TV (ATSC or cable's QAM) could be better. However, Philips has already released firmwares and is improving the DVDR's operation. (BTW, the upgrade was easy to perform!) 4. The quality of the HDD recordings, in both SD and HD modes, is very nice (on HDTV, incredible detail). I'm watching this on a 40" Sony LCD set at 1080p, so the details, if lacking, would be noticable. 5. The HDMI output resolution is selectable via the remote, anywhere from 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p. All look very good. (I've been a broadcast video engineer for lots of years, so my eyes are very critical.) 6. DVD+R playback of a recording made on my Sony VAIO 820G worked very well, with no issues at all, including testing FFW, RWD, pause and other features. (I'll try this on my new HP m8120n quad-core system with HP DVD burner to confirm other compatibility.) As I test more features of this DVDR, including the USB thumb drive input, IEEE1394 inputs, timer recording of ATSC and NTSC programming, etc., I'll post to this comment area... If you want me to test a specific param, let me know. WISH LIST TO PHILIPS: a. Channel "Favorites" b. Better memory of digital channels, both ATSC and QAM/CABLE. More to come!...

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