Philips DVDR5500 DVD Recorder

I decided to buy it because it was a good and reasonable price for a recon. item.I needed it to upgrade dvd to HDMI quality or as near as poss.I have had one or two small problems but overall and bearing in mind the cost, am perfectly satisfied.I am a Philips product user and have had very satisfactory use and service in the past from all my purchases.I am very impressed with the quality of the picture, and the model is simple to operate. I dislike nothing about it.

I am absolutely thrilled with this dvd recorder. It's functions and especially the price make it a fantastic purchase. I've hooked it up to my sky+ box so if I want to keep something I've recorded for ever I just burn it to disc. It plays all format of dvds including divvx movies and jpeg cds, so you can play your holiday pics and movies. It has a USB slot on the front so it's possible to play your mp3s on it as well. It even has an analogue and freeview tuner as well. There are so many functions I could go on describing it for hours. It even came with an HDMI cable. One final thing... it's also an upscaling dvd player as well so your dvds look hi def. I think I've said enough, just go and buy one!!! You won't be disappointed.

Fantastic product at a bargain price. What more is there to say. Will certainly deal with this company again. Everything you need in a DVD recorder. Simple to use and it does what you tell it. BRILL!.

Bought the recorder to record digital programs on Freeview and that the recorder performs adequately. The drawbacks are its guidebook which certainly could have been written to be more helpful especially in setting up and the fact that playback is only for Region 1 disks. These days with extensive travel and ability buy items on the net from other countries Region1 only play back is a significant handicap

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With the old DVD Player deciding to throw in the towel, a replacement was sought. The Philips DVDR5500 DVD Recorder was the first one i saw when i searched here and was bought near instantly. Good points about the DVD Player are that it's fairly simple to use, instructions are very good, High Definition is good, rather stylish and can play videos off Memory Stick and Camcorders through the USB port. Bad points are that it occassionally freezes, not true High Definition (like Sky Plus or Playstation 3), no HDMI cable included and only certain fie types can be played if watching from a Memory Stick. If considering one of these fantastic machines, meassure where it's going to go as it is pretty long and very wide! You won't be disapointed if you buy one.

I was given a recorder, which had a basic manual with it, not the DVDR5500, but a basic model. The recorder had inscriptions over it that said it was Freeview, and so did the box, but in fact the dimensions of the recorder were smaller than on the box and also there was no video plus on the remote. I could not find a digital tuner on the recorder, only an analogue.

I pointed this out to the retailer, who magnamanously refuded my costs including postage.

The standard facilities are very good, I particularly like the 2.5hr recording time option, something I've not seen on others. It has needed a reboot a couple of times, not good but tolerable. This seems to be more common on a range of equipment as they become dedicated computers rather than simple machines. The support from Philips, downloads and upgrades, appears to be good as well as easy to perform. However if you want something that works reliably out of the box you may need to look elsewhere, i.e. Sony,Samsung or Panasonic for example. The price difference is enough for me to choose this unit, and I'm happy at present to put up with an occasional inconvenience, I expect Philips will have it fully sorted in due course.
I was lucky enough to buy it as an ex demo unit, not that you would know from the condition it arrived in, only the tape on the box had been disturbed. I got it for about half retail price, and it came with up to date firmware and region free. A good machine if you want to watch region 1 DVD's, there are simple instructions available via forums on the internet for changing its region settings.
I do not believe that the disc runs all the time as has been said in some of the forums, maybe this has been fixed on a recent upgrade.
Once again, if you're a bit of a technophobe, and have a bit more money to spend then you would probably benefit from looking at other machines, I suspect this machine is a couple of more firmware upgrades away from being bullet proof.

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