Philips DVD-R80 Review

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Philips DVD-R80
2.4 stars
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kaffytia123's Review of Philips DVD-R80 DVD Recorder

3rd Oct 2005

Overall Rating

0 stars
  • Value for money
    0 stars
  • Image Quality
    4 stars
  • Features
    5 stars
  • Time DVD Recorder Owned
    1 - 6 Months
  • Sound Quality
    4 stars
  • Ease of Use
    1 stars
Good Points

It was a lot cheaper than in the shops because I bought it online. It was almost £200 cheaper in fact. There the good points end.


Bad Points

I wish I had waited a while instead of going by so called rave reviews on the product, and all fictitious I don't doubt. What a pile of rubbish, and a waste of £300. I am so in-disgrace with my partner after singing its praises to her, and how it will make her life so easy now; not having to mess about with video cassettes and the like. I bought it for her when it was a new fangled piece of machinery, and I told the fellas at work how I could copy programmes onto disc, and also copy DVD's onto another disc, and how much I saved on the RRP, and that it was mine and I wouldn't let a girl near it, let alone my long suffering partner.


General Comments

The Philips DVD-R80 DVD recorder gave me disc error, after disc error, and I was unable to synchronise my Sky system to it. I was forever getting message 'no disc inserted' when we were trying to watch something. I eventually managed to copy from the TV, taking out the disc and cleaning it, then putting it back in, and half way through what I believed I had copied, up pops a film I copied weeks ago, although the DVDR80 erased the disc and told me it was empty, work that one out. My partner gave it a lot longer than I did before finally reverting back to the trusty £80.99 video recorder - what a life saver. To think I nearly took it to the car boot sale, and sold it as an early electrical appliance used for copying TV programmes to video tape. And oh how my partner loves to point out the amazingly cheap DVD recorders in the brochures, compared to the whopping £300 I spent on a redundant dust gathering piece of rubbish under the TV! Is she making me suffer or what?

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