Philips DVDR3576H

usability, price, image quality, design

reliability

85% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

got rid of my Time Warner that never worked right, If you want an easy to use easy to program DVR this is the one to get. If you can program a VCR you can work this one

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The flexibility of going to hard drive or disk is nice

Truly an awful product. I've used a number of different DVD recorders from various manufacturers, and never seen one as slow to finalize as this. Unreliable - fails to read discs, only a few weeks after the limited warranty ended

Good for non-digital cable or over-the-air cable reception I suppose.

Despite all the "digtal tv" jargon used throughout the copy, it does *not* work completely with a digital cable tuner. You can't schedule recordings, and the video image gets scrunched to a smaller view on your screen (smaller than it would be...

Makes good quality recordings to hard disk. Easy to use. Receives both analog and digital signals. Great free program guide.

Remote is not funtionally designed -- easy enough to use but with tiny buttons and even tinier lettering that make non-standard operations difficult. No ability to label your programmed recordings -- the machine titles tracks based on date/time/channel...

Nice DVR recorder.

The cooling fan comes on once in a while. Only On/Off shuts it down. No fixfound yet. This might not be a big problem but I am using an RF modulator which also comes on. If someone knows a fix for this cooling fan - please let me know.

Recorded HD channels look great. Not as good as HD but very very acceptable. Can record to the hard drive and watch your shows when you want. You can adjust the time for the skip ahead/back buttons. Great for bypassing commercials. I set mine for 30...

QAM tuner doesn't always work and this usually happens when the timer is set to record a show. You may also notice for some HD channels they come in on a slightly different channel than what your HD TV lists them at. For example: CBS should be 106.3...

very easy to operate, works very well, my first purchase from Newegg and very happy.

non so far

Easy to use, works much like a VCR. Digital tuner. Records HD programs in proper 16:9 aspect ratio. IMHO best video recording product on market for those who rely on over the air signals and don't mind less picture quality.

If it were only high def. Downscales HD content to standard definition.

Perfect pass-through of cable signal while powered off. Built-in tuners and easy setup.

Receiver firmware is buggy and interferes with recorder operation.

Good quality video recording. Can pause live video. It is not used with an antenna and therefore I cannot comment on broadcast recording.

Records only at pre-defined speeds of 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 6 hours on a DVD, i.e., does not have flexible recording modes to maximum quality when trying to fill a DVD-R. For example a 96 minute program must be recorded at 2 hour speed, unlike some other...