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Philips DVDR5520 review

Philips machine offers reasonable recording and playback

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Last reviewed: July 1st 2008

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Philips DVDR5520 scores 7.5 out of 10 based on 17 reviews

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The 2 most helpful reviews:

03 Apr 2008 Tim, Bath

6

Good Points

This model is fine for playing DVDs, and the Time-Shift Buffer (silly name for live TV recorded to the hard-drive) is great to pause live tv and watch an hour later or to go back over 6 hours of previously watch programs.

Bad Points

The key things to know are as follows: 1.You can't transfer recorded TV to the DVD burner (except in DVD vob format), or to the USB memory card. This is a really big downer as to get TV recorded from the hard drive you have to burn a DVD and then rip the DVD into DIVX which takes to long. 2. Files played form a USB stick have to be DIVX - it's very fussy about recognising other file formats forget wmv,rm or XVID. The USB doesnt recognise external USB hard drives or computers - works ok with a 4GB memory stick. 3. When you select a section to record to the hard drive from the Time-shift buffer, it seems to rerecord it in real time! This is way to slow for practical use. 4. Some operations only work in standby mode which is inconvenient.

26 Mar 2008 Barrie, Burton on Trent

8

Good Points

Very versatile modern machine

Bad Points

May take a while to get used to operating

Overall score: 7.5

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Product Summary

Key specs


HDD Capacity (GB): 160 |
Video Upscaling: Yes |
DivX Support: Yes |

Full spec

For

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5.1 recording

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Good AV

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Funky clickwheel remote

Against

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Ponderously unresponsive

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Can’t transfer 5.1 to (compatible) DVD

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No optical input

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