philips dvd-r80 review

Average Ratings
Image Quality8.6/10 Based on 10 ratings
Sound Quality8.6/10 Based on 10 ratings
Features7.3/10 Based on 10 ratings
Ease of Use6.3/10 Based on 10 ratings
Value for Money5/10
Overall rating4.7/10
36% Recommended5 out of 14 Reviews

Review of Philips DVD-R80 DVD Recorder

By Greenfingers on 2nd Nov 2004

Greenfingers's Ratings
Time DVD Recorder Owned1 - 6 Months
Image Quality9/10
Sound Quality8/10
Features3/10
Ease of Use1/10
Value for money1/10
Overall value1/10
no Greenfingers's recommendation

Good Points

Guide Plus when works is OK BUT AS THE dvdr80 has trouble with days in the month needs checking to see at end of month if the date is still correct.

Bad Points

Instruction Booket next to useless, Constant crashes, Service Centre useless only advice given is to reset it or failing that return to Supplier.

General Comments

Now on my second replacement DVD R80 unit, no better than before constant crashing of unit, will not manually record, Disc Error comes up all the time. Anybody that is thinking of buying one BE WARNED, IT WILL GIVE YOU HIGH BLOOD PRESURE, GREY HAIRS ETC, THERE ARE MUCH BETTER dvd recorders out there, oh and by the way Philips have now replace this with a newer model stange after only being introduced to the market 9 -12 months ago

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1 Comment on Review by Greenfingers for Philips DVD-R80 DVD Recorder


  1. maryjanemoore on 12th Feb 2007

    Pleased to read these reviews, as we too have been victims of the Philips DVD-R80! Decided to buy a recorder as we hadn't rushed out to buy a DVD player on their arrival. Wish we had waited and not wasted £300 on a machine that has brought little satisfaction. It has to be the worse return on investment we have had. I note Philips don't even recognise the model number on their own website now. I wonder why?

    Seems a recurring fault of frozen disk and no disk error - come on Philips own up and recall.