DVD Player/Recorder with built-in SDTV Digital Receiver
Philips
- DVDR3505/37
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PHILIPS DVDR3505/37 Upconversion DVD Player/Recorder
PHILIPS DVDR3505/37 Upconversion DVD Player/Recorder
DVD Player/Recorder with built-in SDTV Digital Receiver
NTSC Analog Tuner for 480i Record / ATSC Digital Tuner for 480p Record / Record on DVD+R - DVD+RW - DVD-R
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I have a 32 inch HDTV, and I do all my TV viewing OTA (no cable or satellite). We enjoy watching PBS, and other broadcast stations. But the VCR could not record any of the digital channels. So I started looking for a DVR. My HDTV does not have a video out port, so I could not use a tunerless DVR.
So I bought this DVR mainly because it has a digital tuner, thinking that the quality would not be so good because it does not record in HD like a Tivo. But I was wrong. The quality of recording is so clear, I can't tell a difference between the original HD broadcast and DVD playback.
You can record at different quality settings. The higher the quality of recording, the less stuff you can fit on the DVD, because the higher quality recording takes up more space. At the highest quality setting, you can fit one hour of shows. At the next highest quality setting, you can fit 2 hours. At the next quality setting, you can fit 2.5 hours. And so on and so on all the way to a 6 hour disc capacity.
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So I bought this DVR mainly because it has a digital tuner, thinking that the quality would not be so good because it does not record in HD like a Tivo. But I was wrong. The quality of recording is so clear, I can't tell a difference between the original HD broadcast and DVD playback.
You can record at different quality settings. The higher the quality of recording, the less stuff you can fit on the DVD, because the higher quality recording takes up more space. At the highest quality setting, you can fit one hour of shows. At the next highest quality setting, you can fit 2 hours. At the next quality setting, you can fit 2.5 hours. And so on and so on all the way to a 6 hour disc capacity.
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Accepts almost all media types, has lots of features, DIVX, HDMI with good upscaling picture quality, and the SD channels come in clear.
This recorder does have an integrated QAM tuner that allows free reception of unscrambled digital programming sent "in the clear" by your cable provider. The instruction manual does not state this fact and neither does most websites.
The only down side is that in my area Comcast provides cable service and ABC, CBS, and NBC are on channels 86-431, 85-433, and 86-432.
This recorder's tuner only accepts two digits of the sub channel number. Therefore if you have three digits like in my area you have no chance of watching or recording any of those stations.
The digital channels I am able to get do come in clearly and picture quality is an A+ on recordings. If you don't have this problem in your neighbourhood then this is a great recorder for the price.
I did end up returning this unit for the Panasonic DMREZ27K because of the problem with the two digit
This recorder does have an integrated QAM tuner that allows free reception of unscrambled digital programming sent "in the clear" by your cable provider. The instruction manual does not state this fact and neither does most websites.
The only down side is that in my area Comcast provides cable service and ABC, CBS, and NBC are on channels 86-431, 85-433, and 86-432.
This recorder's tuner only accepts two digits of the sub channel number. Therefore if you have three digits like in my area you have no chance of watching or recording any of those stations.
The digital channels I am able to get do come in clearly and picture quality is an A+ on recordings. If you don't have this problem in your neighbourhood then this is a great recorder for the price.
I did end up returning this unit for the Panasonic DMREZ27K because of the problem with the two digit
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I needed a new dvd player and decided to upgrade with a tuner to be ready for digital broadcasts next year. The tuner is excellent and I can't tell you enough how nice it is to actually see the ball in a baseball game. The picture was so good that I upgraded to a larger tv. I also like being able to "tape" in a clear, crisp format. The recorder is quite easy to use so I'm not sure where others have been having problems. I should note that I bought this at Wal-Mart. They originally sold me an open-box item, that was not sold as so. (The previous owner had left a DVD in the player-clue#1). The antenna hook-up on the first dvd-r was loose, and the channel changing was quite slow, 5-10sec. I returned it, and the new one has a 3-4 sec. channel change speed and the antenna input works fine. There are still many features that I haven't tried yet but timed recordings and viewing/playback have worked well.
Pros: Excellent tuner for OTA signals, great digital recordings, easy to use, also
Pros: Excellent tuner for OTA signals, great digital recordings, easy to use, also
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