Philips VR750 Nicam Video Recorder

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2006-02-03 rating:
Very VERY Disappointing
It is so bad I can't believe it, and have tried every adjustment, and read and re-read the instructions, certain it must be me. But no. The picture quality is appalling. I mean truly dreadful. The remote has an irritating delay of a couple of seconds, so when you press a channel button, although the number comes up on the tv screen, seconds go by before it switches over - very strange. The number on the screen says 2 but I'm still watching 1...um... tum ti tum...oops! there it goes (at last). Recording quality on LP is abysmal with 1/4 of the picture at the bottom of the screen lost to crackling and flashing the whole time and dreadful picture quality. It's slightly better behaved on SP, but still very poor reproduction, and if I'd wanted a machine that only did SP I'd have dug my old old one out of the attic. I'm using an expensive gold plated scart lead, and TDK tapes that have never given any problems with my old VCR. My previous VCR was a 'cheap' Ferguson that recorded with no loss of quality at SP and LP speeds (through the aerial!). (I even tried that - ie without the scart lead - however back to front it seemed, but actually it made no difference; no better, but in fact no worse either.) I bought this from Amazon just after Christmas on the basis of one reasonable review. Silly me. Very VERY disappointed.


review by: aaron1977 date: 2005-08-31 rating:
Good for the price
Well I needed a VCR (some people still do these days) and this fitted the bill - didn't want to spend more than £80 on one and it had all my desired components: front AV sockets, nicam stereo plus an auto-set of the clock meaning the unit can be unplugged with the telly at night! Picture quality is a little soft, but there are three settings... the only major niggle is that the remote control interferes with my Fusion 150 Freeview/DTT Personal Video Recorder. So, you press the off button on the video remote and on comes BBC Text on the DTT box... or press a channel number on the VCR remote and the DTT box changes channel (the work around is to use the programme up and down buttons). Never had equipment which has interfered with each other like this, but I can live with it. It's also a little frustrating that you have to go into an internal setting to change from Long Play to Short Play (but then again, I normally leave it in LP for any recordings I'll be doing to it - it's mostly to play old tapes.

So, all in all, for the price it does the job well - and will see me through this interim period until the manufacturers sort out a definitive format for the way archive recordings for the future.

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