Philips DVDR5520H/05 - 160 GB Hard Disk/DVD Recorder

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Editorial reviews

Product Description
PHILIPS 160GB DVD RECORDER WITH MP3 PLAYBACK

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Customer reviews

review by: Iqbal date: 2008-11-02 rating:
Great ideas but unreliable
The Philips DVDR 5520H has some good ideas from the previous Philips models. It has a USB 2 port which allows multimedia to be played directly from the flash drive or coped to its internal hard drive. Great if you download movies! Quick download, copy to a flash drive and plug it in and watch - no need to convert or burn!!

Bad point - it takes time to start up. If you're watching something and there's a knock on the door and you switch it on so you don't miss anything - well it takes around 5 to 10 seconds to boot up. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a hard drive if it doesn't start recording straight away.

Another thing is that the technology is not quite there and the whole thing can be unreliable. Sometimes when you switch it on it freezes which means you have to switch it off from behind. My model died after five months and has been with Philips for the past six weeks!!

So be aware that although the model has some good ideas they're only good if they work.

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