A poor attempt by Philips (Philips DVDR 610)

Member Name: GreenAlien

Product:	Philips DVDR 610
Date:	01/09/05 (811 review reads)
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Advantages: Fairly cheap.

Disadvantages: Slow interface, buggy software, unreliable

I've had a Philips DVDR 610 for about one year now. Unfortunately, digital technology has not prevailed over analogue if this attempt is anything to go by. It's slower, more fiddily to use, and is less reliable than any VCR I've previously had.

The menu system is slow and unpolished, the interface of the machine is not as intuitive/consistent as it should be. And to round things off, it's not reliable. This is despite going through the trouble of upgrading the firmware recently.

The system often works. It will record a few times onto quality branded DVD-RW disks, then every now and again I return to find that it only recorded roughly the first 10 minutes before canceling the recording by itself, despite being a blank disk. It works 9 times out of 10, but I expect it to work 10/10 - as I came to expect from my plain VCR beforehand.

I have only experienced this DVDR from philips so can't say if others are better. Personally I'll wait for a reliable harddisk based recorder to come on the market and purchase one of those.

Summary: Marginally better than a VCR but can't be recommended.

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