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Philips DTR1500
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Average Ratings for Philips DTR1500

  • Features4 stars
  • Ease of Use4 stars
  • Value for Money3.7 stars
  • Reviewer Ratings3.6 stars
  • Overall Rating3.2 stars

15 Reviews For Philips DTR1500

  • Guest 1st Oct 2009

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    I have had my Philips dtr 1500 for a number of years. When I bought it, it was towards he top end of the price range. Now with the digital switchover it will not register the new channel 5. I know people with older and cheaper boxes that have re-tuned with no problems. I'm off to get a chaepie replacement- not a Philips

  • Guest 30th Jun 2009

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    The Philips DTR1500 worked perfectly for 4 years until digital switchover when several channels including BB2, ITV and BBC news 24 were no longer available. Eventually received an e-mail reply from Philips who said due to its age (!) it may longer be compatible with the new signals. No amount of retuning will solve the problem so it will have to be replaced.

  • demmie 7th May 2009

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    Iv'e had a philips dtr1500 for three months and received one channels update but so far no software update. The software installed is dated 2005 does anybody out there have any comments on this.

  • kentynet Rank: Staff Sergeant 28th Apr 2009

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    "The Philips DTR1500 looks quite good and is easy to use but the sound cuts out and now the picture on some channels freeze. It starts with ITV, then after a couple of days, I lose all channels." I had this problem to after a over-the-air software update, until then it was fine. I found a solution though:Create a favourites channel list and add all the channels to it, after that mines was fine, but if you reset the box, you'll have to do it again.

  • Guest 4th Apr 2009

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    bought the Philips DTR1500 as i live in a weak signal area and i also have my aerial in the loft. tried a few different boxes, but freezing was always a massive issue, until i discovered this model. money well spent.

  • alan clayton 5th Sep 2006

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    The Philips DTR1500 looks quite good and is easy to use but the sound cuts out and now the picture on some channels freeze. It starts with ITV, then after a couple of days, I lose all channels. I'm very disappointed with my Philips DTR1500 since I paid top price and it only lasted a year. I have had a cheap and nasty Bush which has been pretty good.

  • philb611 24th Apr 2006

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    I bought my Philips DTR1500 freeview box from Ebay as I wasn't sure of the reception where I was moving to. There was no aerial in the house, and it even worked very well with a portable aerial from Argos. Now I have a decent aerial in the loft, I have crisp perfect reception. No faults, reception issues or problems. No gripes at all, especially for £25.

  • Embyo Rank: Corporal 6th Sep 2005

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    I have owned the Philips DTR1500 Freeview box for over a year, and to be fair it is a good little box, and is not the ugliest by any means. The aerial setup is my biggest gripe as you have to select a single channel and adjust the aerial, while not knowing if the other frequencies have fallen away!
    It has suffered from overheating with the sound going funny, and distortion at the top of the picture. This has happened 3 times over the course of a year, so not really a big issue.
    I find it har ...

  • GTU00 14th Feb 2005

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    Bought for £69 at Comet, I am generally very pleased with the Philips DTR1500 box except for a problem with the sound. Every 30 seconds or so, the sound cuts out for about a second. This happens on all the TV channels and all the radio channels, more so on some than others (channel 5 is the worse). This is annoying especially when listening to music on the radio channels. There is no corresponding interference on the picture. Any users got any ideas on how to correct this ?

  • stevoation 24th Oct 2004

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    I bought a Philips DTR1500, my 1st venture into the world of digital TV, because I refuse to pay a subscription to other digital providers, I went with Freeview.
    This in my opinion was the best box on offer at the time, and I was right, as I was surprised to find that other boxes only had one Scart connection, so how you connect it up to a VCR, as well as your TV I don't know.
    But anyway this has 2 Scart connections one for the TV and one for the Video.
    After the simple processes of connectin ...

  • Picky consumer Rank: Lance Corporal 15th Sep 2004

    Reviewer rating: 3 stars


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    Im very happy with the Philips DTR1500 freeview box except that it appears to loose some channels when an automatic update of channels list happens. You have to do a "Factory reset" to recover this and loose you favourites. Also the manual is wrong with the instructions of how to do this.

  • Powerful 13th Aug 2004

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    Philips DTR1500 - Easily set up, once you have read the manual and identified your particular configuration.
    Picture and graphics quality is good considering signal strength in my area.

  • gendy943 Rank: Staff Sergeant 6th Aug 2004

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    I have had a DTR1500 for 6 months mated to a Philips VCR850 for timer recordings off Freeview - it is superb for this but obviously only at CVBS level though numerous output formats can be chosen including SVHS and SVideo as well as RGB and PAL-CVBS.
    The menus are easy to navigate but very comprehensive - you really can set this box up to meet every equipment set-up. The instruction book really takes some getting to know but is well worth the effort.
    For me the graphics are better than Sony (i ...

  • graeme0781 Rank: Corporal 1st Jun 2004

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    Was looking for a DVB Freeview box and after checking out prices on the internet saw this Philips DTR1500 for £68.00 inc. delivery!!! Bought it straight away from greatsaves.co.uk and although the price is now, at time of writing, £75.00 it's still cheaper than anything listed on kelkoo, pricerunner(or indeed this website).

    Received it 2 days later, pleased to find batteries for remote were included, and plugged it in. In order to get record function working properly I needed 3 sc ...

  • crabtreemp Rank: Lance Corporal 17th Nov 2003

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    Excellent clear graphics and text
    Excellent picture quality
    Easy setup
    Clear instruction manual