Philips DVDR7250H

Excellent features ; Decent icture erformance

No HDMI outut ; Sluggish oeration

5.1 inut for the first time ; Well-secified for the rice

Usability issues ; Weak lower quality recording modes

Excellent features, Decent picture performance

No HDMI output, Sluggish operation

Good value-for-money recorder that just falls short of greatness

Low price; set-top box control; i.Link input

No HDMI out; limited editing and copy features; record mode setting is tricky; sluggish to use; lower recording modes and progressive scan are poor

image quality

33% of reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

On the whole my first 2 weeks with this recorder have been very good. It is really quiet if a little big. Connection and set up was easy and well documented, although it did take about half an hour to automatically search for all the digital and...

On the whole my first 2 weeks with this recorder have been very good. It is really quiet if a little big. Connection and set up was easy and well documented, although it did take about half an hour to automatically search for all the digital and...

This unit uses the GuidePLUS+ system for its EPG. Unfortunately, even when you only use digital channels (such as after the analogue switchoff), the data needed for the system requires ANALOGUE ITV1 to be tuned in. There is no way around this. Philips...

This unit uses the GuidePLUS+ system for its EPG. Unfortunately, even when you only use digital channels (such as after the analogue switchoff), the data needed for the system requires ANALOGUE ITV1 to be tuned in. There is no way around this. Philips...

I've had one of these players for about 2 months now and while it is good in some ways - the build quality is very good, it's very quiet and features such as the timeshift buffer are useful, it does have some major flaws. My main problem with it is the...