9 von 9 Personen fanden diese Produktbewertung hilfreich.
I LIKE IT ...WITH RESERVATIONS
Bewertet am: Okt 8, 2007
Fazit: Even with the glitches, it's worth it.
For a really comprehensive and detailed review on the product details and specs see the review by Ames100, it's very thorough. I wrote this to touch on a few points he might have missed, as well as to help the "new to DVD recorders" get started if they buy one.
This recorder works as expected with reservations. It has some issues. It can freeze up during editing resulting in data loss. It has frozen during scene deletes and title splits. When it froze during a title split, it didn't show the data from the 1st half of the title. And you won't know it till you try to play it, or record it to DVD. I was able to watch it by using the next chapter buttons to ask it to move into the next chapter, but you lose the chapter it froze on.
The 1st recorder got so bad at this, Philips tech support decided the hard drive had to have bad spots on it, and I exchanged it (they don't repair, just replace).. my second one was worse, so back it went. I have filled the entire hard drive up on the 3rd one, with only 2 bad spots, so I'm just leaving those 2 programs on the drive so that I don't write to that bad area again, and keeping it...darn it, I like this machine, but not the bugs. The problem with exchanging it is that you have to send it back, and Philips wants 2 weeks to send you the new one after they receive the old one. So, my best advise it to test it hard when you 1st get it, and if it's bad order a new one, then send the old one back for credit as soon as you get the new one so that you aren't without a recorder. Just make sure of the return policy of where you buy it on electronic equipment, most places give you a month and you have to call for a return authorization.
Overall, Philips' customer service is about average in product knowledge and helpfulness (depending on who you get, they can actually seem to know what you are asking without typing it in an reading back an answer, but that's if you get the right person, otherwise you're dealing with a data base answer).
Otherwise, I love being able to record onto the harddrive, make my edits, and save it to DVD. So far I have not had any compatability issues with DVD's made on this recorder playing on other players, and it plays DVD's made on my computer without a problem.
My only other complaints are that it doesn't merge titles, you can't record on one channel & watch another, you have to tell it if you have svideo connections or RCA jacks depending on your input source (it's in the setup/video menu), and you have to choose between digital and analog on your channel selection, unlike other brands that let you browse thru both.
It also turns off after recording if you aren't there to tell it not to, so when you turn your tv back on, you have to turn the recorder on to get your signal back, it doesn't go ahead and feed the signal thru like some of the other brands..and that's fine if you're the one who operates the recorder, but my husband isn't allowed to touch it (he's a button pusher without any knowledge, and boy can he mess things up), so when he doesn't get the picture he's hollering for me.
As far as the manual... use some post-its and mark the pages for the directions you want to keep handy ...it'll save you some time. The only reason I say it's a little hard to learn on the cons is that you have to jump to different spots to look up info to do a progressive job at first and find all the hints, and if you are not familiar with the nomenclature it may take a little while to figure out what it means.
PS.. I talked to Phillips tech support..they said that to use the High speed dubbing option from HDD to DVD you have to record to HDD on the same mode as you intend to record to DVD (example SP on both), and that you will have some quality loss... I had some footage from a camcorder to record for the family that I had to make 19 copies of, and I really didn't notice any quality loss using the high speed dubbing. However, if you are recording for the highest quality, they recommended recording on HQ mode on the HDD, doing your editing, then dubbing to the max recording mode your DVD will allow. That should give the best possible quality on your DVD, but do the HDD to DVD dubbing when you go to bed or to work, because it plays the recording at 1/1 speed, or else you have to watch it, and after recording and editing, I really don't want to see it a 3rd time.
Getting started...
A good check list for recording HDD to DVD is..
1. set recording mode & timer for HDD recording (set the timer for a few minutes before and after)
2. when it's finished name your title (Title/edit)
3. do a front title split to get rid of anything you don't want at the front, and delete the unwanted title
4. delete any scenes you don't want (use 3x fast forward so you don't miss any commercials, then slow down to 2x fastforward & reverse on pause to get your start and end points)
5. do a title split on the back to get rid of any garbage on the back.
6. To get out of the edit mode use the back button..look at your recording length (time)
7. To get out of titles hit the title button
8. Now you have your real time and can set your recording mode on the DVD (you have to put a blank DVD in first)
9. use setup/dubbing to start HDD to DVD or start playing the title and hit the direct dubbing button at the bottom of your remote
10. When it's done, make your index picture (DVD/title/edit)
11. Go into Setup/Disk edit & Name your disk
12. Go into Setup/Disk edit & Finalize your disk
You are done
When I started doing this it was taking me about 45 minutes to do my edits (and look things up).. as I got used to it, it's only taking me about 20 minutes on a 2 hour recording with 12 commercials.
And if you want your DVD's to really look nice, you can get 7MM(single disk) and 9MM(double disk)slimline storage cases with plastic liner, and make your insert on your computer. Cost $0.20 to $0.26 ea.
