Phillips dvdr

Hi my phillips 3305 has started to take ages to load and then goes
into recovery!! is this approaching senility ( of the phillips ) as
its about 18months old, and if so what should I replace it with?
Rog

In article , Paul Heslop
wrote:
rog wrote:

Hi my phillips 3305 has started to take ages to load and then goes
into recovery!! is this approaching senility ( of the phillips ) as
its about 18months old, and if so what should I replace it with? Rog

anything but phillips? :O) seriously I heard enough bad things about
phillips dvdr when I first started looking that I never even touched
them.

I would echo that. My first DVD videorecorder was Philips. Never again. It
went wrong after a couple of years and they refused to service it. They
offered to sell me a 'replacement' *at their full wholesale price* instead.
How generous!

But the 'replacement' didn't even have the same features as the one it was
claimed to 'replace'. (I had already tried one and found it was rubbish.)

Given the way they behaved, in disregard of UK/EU consumer rights, I
decided never to buy anything branded 'Philips' again.

Since happily used Panasonic recorders.

Slainte,

Jim

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In article , Brian Gaff
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Yes, but at that age it surely should be fixed or replaced for free I'd
have thought.

That wasn't my experience with Philips when the recorder I had went wrong.
To make things worse they had a single (outsourced) service company. So a
local repairer could not even get any parts or info. The attitude was
simply to offer a 'replacement' at full wholesale price. Take it or leave
it, squire.

Same as - when it worked - the recorder gave nice results. Left me feeling
that they have good development labs, and a lousy attitude to reliability
and customer support.

Slainte,

Jim

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Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Brian Gaff
wrote:
Yes, but at that age it surely should be fixed or replaced for free I'd
have thought.

That wasn't my experience with Philips when the recorder I had went
wrong. To make things worse they had a single (outsourced) service
company. So a local repairer could not even get any parts or info.

I always used to get Philip's bits from Willow Vale in Reading - never had
any trouble.

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"charles" wrote in message
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I always used to get Philip's bits from Willow Vale in Reading - never had
any trouble.

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Yes that's a name from the past, and a very good one.
Goggle just failed to find me their web site should they still be there.
Regards
David
PS regards the Philips sub contractor I think they just replace at a reduced
price unless anyone can report they repaired theirs.
I also wonder if the supplied replacements are brand new or refurbished
ones?

On 03/08/2010 11:20, charles wrote:
In ,
Jim wrote:
In , Brian Gaff
wrote:
Yes, but at that age it surely should be fixed or replaced for free I'd
have thought.

That wasn't my experience with Philips when the recorder I had went
wrong. To make things worse they had a single (outsourced) service
company. So a local repairer could not even get any parts or info.

I always used to get Philip's bits from Willow Vale in Reading - never had
any trouble.

Now appear to be this lot:

http://www.connect-distribution.co.u...me.pl?thegroup

Dave

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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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Same as - when it worked - the recorder gave nice results. Left me feeling
that they have good development labs, and a lousy attitude to reliability
and customer support.


As someone who dealt with them back in the days of AES and then CES, it
would be nice to be able to relate that back in those far off halcyon days
their attitude and attention to customer support was so much better

In article [email protected], Rick
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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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Same as - when it worked - the recorder gave nice results. Left me
feeling that they have good development labs, and a lousy attitude to
reliability and customer support.


As someone who dealt with them back in the days of AES and then CES, it
would be nice to be able to relate that back in those far off halcyon
days their attitude and attention to customer support was so much
better

Well, in fairness, I should say that decades ago my first VCR was a V2000
series and it worked nicely for some years. At that time I held them in
high regard. These days they just seem to be a brand name logo on boxes
they get designed and made 'wherever'.

One consequence I guess was that the 'replacement' I was offerred clearly
hadn't been designed by anyone who knew about the previous recorder. Not
even fully compatible with discs recorded on the earlier machine.

Slainte,

Jim

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On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:30:27 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

18 months, its still in purity!

Sounds like a problem to me.

Is that censorship by your voice program and you actually said
puberty? G

Hmmm, as you were . . .