Worth the investment (Philips DVDR 70)

Member Name: rachelkanga

Product:	Philips DVDR 70
Date:	22/02/05 (497 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to Use, Clear instructions

Disadvantages: Complicated setting up system

We have just purchased one or these recordable Dvd players as we were very pleased with the previous Dvd players that we owned. We made our purchase for £249.99 which was £20 cheaper than most stores are advertising the machine for. The machine came with 1 scart socket and a remote control with batteries.

This DvD recorder has various special functions including: easylink, cinemalink, automatic satellite recording, direct record, favorite scene selection, index picture screen plus others. You can also play DVD video discs, DVD recordable discs, Audio CDs, Video CDs, CD recordable discs and CD re-writable discs.

Once we had the machine set up and connected to the television and Sky, it was extremely easy to record with both Videoplus+ and PDC options for timer programming and the quality of the recorded pictures was excellent. This machine enables you to record up to 6 hours of programmes per disc and with the favorite scene selection you can easily delete advertisements or scenes which you think inappropriate.

Once the recorded picture is finished with it is also easy to delete if you have re-recordable discs.

The amount of time left on the disc is clearly displayed before recording, and the index picture screen enables you to find each recording by its title enable you to easily find individual programmes so that you can watch the programmes on the disc in any order rather than having to watch from the beginning or fast forwarding to find the start of a programme.

The remote control is long but slim and easy to read. The buttons are evenly spaced to prevent pressing the incorrect button

The only draw back that we have found so far is that we have now lost the use of our video recorder as we were unable to plug this in as well. This is obviously not needed for recording but children have videos that they like to watch. We have bought a scart lead extension box but this does not enable us to use the video recorder either.

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