Philips DVDR3575H/37 160G HDD DVD Recorder w/ ATSC tuner - Page 125  

This could be a case of no DVD in tray but the DVD drive is selected. Did you make sure you had switched/selected the HDD drive before pressing REC?

I don't know how lucky I feel and I kinda doubt having the FW disk in the unit will change anything but it might be worth a shot sometime.
I tried 3 of the newer 0160 Polaroids but none of them had a stable QAM tuner, it remembered channels just fine but had so many dropouts that the QAM part was unusable, so I gave up and bought a Philips.
I'm pretty are the Digital Polaroid is also plug and play like the older version but I wasn't going to mess with one if the tuner wasn't up to par.
We need to find a unit that is upgradeable someday, the Chinese had quite a few that advertised various drive sizes, or no drive at all, add your own, but I don't think any were QAM capable.

It very well may change things if the firmware is not stored on flash memory but rather on the HDD. Isn't this what Pioneer did with a couple of their models, that made life difficult if one needed to replace the HDD.

Anything is possible, the unit did work as far as the tuner and setup menus went, just said can't record to this disk when I hit record, error 49 I think.
All the the hd related things were grayed out as well. I think one guy got a machine similar to this issue to work by copying the initial fat/setup files from his original drive over to the bigger one, then it worked as whatever was in those told the machine how to handle the drive. This one might be similar, but I didn't want to risk blowing all the video I have on it or erasing something critical trying to clone it somehow.
I would think if you had a bit for bit copy program that didn't care about formats or anything you could at least clone the drive to another same or bigger drive.

Hey Guys,
I have a question about the 3575.

I am sorry if you have already answered this but I was looking through the threads and I didn't see anything about it. I did not make it through all of the 125 pages though, I am a lazy, lazy man.

I pluged my cable (basic) from the wall into the 3575 Sunday to see what would happen. I got all of the channels I recieved from my antenna plus wgn and tbs. As I was looking at the channels I was receiving I started to get wierd channels and shows that I never got with the basic cable or the antenna but they were never the same after the show had ended. I was going through the channels and found Ghost Hunters and thought cool, SCIFI channel. Went back to it later, "scrambled channel". Later that night on a different channel I got the movie HITMAN. Went back later, nothing. On 104.2I got Comcast sports net, I was watching the SF Giants game, half hour after the game ended it became the Jewelry Shopping Channel.

Have you guys heard of this or know anything about it?

Thanks,

Your picking up on demand stuff others in your local area have ordered. I get quite a few as well and they tend to jump around while your watching it s they have a channel hopping setup kinda like a cell phone. It can jump to a unused channel when demand rises for bandwidth or something similar. Just count your blessings and enjoy the free previews

Awesome,

and thank you for the fast reply

We had that on our cable for a while, then they starting encrypting. But if you watched after 9:00 on a Friday or Saturday night, you'd see some . . . uh . . . mature programs. You learn alot about your neighbors.

Yes, I did try to select HDD first before pressing Rec, but it didn't work.

BTW, the 3rd replacement from Philips is on the way, and they promised this would be a new one. It seems that only for the 1st replacement, it takes a bit time to get them do it. For the 2nd and 3rd replacement, right after I explained the problem, they started looking to see if there is a unit to ship to me. I got the impression that they are doing a lot of exchanges, and it's no surprise to them a unit they shipped is defective.

My unit doesn't lose channels, but it does have a problem, sometimes, when it's recording a digital channel, I get a blank screen recording. I've gone to recording a minute of an analog station, then switching to the digital station I want. Yes, I do need to set two programs, but it has been working just fine.

The digital tuner of this recorder reminds me of a cable box I used to have. It would display, from time to time "Channel will be available Shortly"....on stations I could watch before.

BTW "Shortly" should have been "Never"....The Channel didn't come back until the box was shut off, or sometimes it didn't came back till the next day. Wonder if Philips used that design?

See here for more info on the 3576 at Sam's Club:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...0#post13670070

Save 40 or 52 dollars.

It might not be too late for some of you.

Today or this weekend is the 25th anniversary of the start of walmart or samsclub and there were COUPONS in the paper earlier this week that allowed one to be a member of Sam's club for one day only, either Friday, Saturday, or this Sunday, April 18. So you don't have to pay the 40 dollars. This was the Baltimore Sun but it might be true all over the country.

My friend had a coupon and said she was going, and so I met her there, and they had about 14 of the 76's at $248.xx, so I bought one.

She thought there would be one later in the week too, like Friday, but coudln't find one. So you might have old newspapers lying around -- I think it was in the advertising inserts. It was small, 2x6", glosssy and blue. -- and might be able the coupon and use it.

I thought maybe there would be mention of this on the webpage, and one could get a coupon there, but in my short look, didn't find any thing.

But if you can't find a coupon, you could call the store and tell them that and ask if you can get the same thing anyhow. They might say yes. Get the name of whoever says yes.


I mostly play what I record, but my friend doesn't want to buy anything unless it can play and maybe record Blu-ray.

How long until the sell things that record Blu-ray?
How long until DVD's for rent will only be Blu-ray?
Is there any point in having Blu-ray now if one's tv is still analog, or digital but less than 24 inches. They don't make any hi-def tv's that are less than 24 inches, do they?

Blu-Ray has one bad thing going for it, price. A PC combo burner is still around 260 and blanks are probably around 10 each or more, if you can find them. Pretty spendy if you coaster you first few attempts. I doubt they are going to be selling a reasonably priced stand alone player/burner anytime soon, what with Hollywood wanting to make sure we can't make copies of anything that's a exact digital copy of the original.
I do want to get a LG combo burner that does BD and HD plus regular dvd's and cdr's though. I got my first CDRW burner in 98 and spent 450 on it, friend bough his in 96 and was buying blanks at over 10 each. This unit is as close as most home users are going to get in a standalone device. I do have a HDTV card in this box and burn HD shows to dvd that play fine on my Toshiba A2 player though.

This is off topic, but does anyone remember seeing a listing of all the T.V. stations in the country with the current analog channel number and the new digital numbers along side? I saw one talked about somewhere, but can't remember where it was.

Thanks,
Ken

Not sure if this is what you're looking for?

To see what OTA DTV channels (with old NTSC channels) might be in your area as of 12/31/07, here is FCC Appendix D, List of Stations identified as Ready to Commence Post-Transition Operations (small FCC pdf download).

Here is FCC Appendix F, Stations Granted Extension Requests or Use-or-Lose Waivers (small FCC pdf download).

That was it!

Thanks wajo.

Ken

I get the same thing with TW.

Funny how one minute the channel is a cartoon, then next it's showing porn.

^^^ switched video.

>I doubt they are going to be selling a reasonably priced stand alone player/burner anytime >soon

OK. I'm sure you're right. So forget about burning. My friend is concerned that in 2 or 4 years the only DVDs for rent will be Blu-ray, and she doesn't want to buy a good player now, only for it to obsolete soon because it doesn't play Blu-ray. How long before the DVDs she would want to rent, current movies, are only for rent in blu-ray? If you're not sure, how about a best guess?

Probably not for a long, long time, if ever. There are millions - no - billions of standard-def DVD players out there now - and trillions of SD-DVD's. It's still a niche thing, and will likely remain that way, as long as it lasts.

I'd actually expect hi-rez DVD to die off before standard-def DVD ever does.

Besides, anything you burn on the Philips should be playable on any Blu-Ray player in the future - if those are even around in four year's time. By then, most people will probably be downloading most of their movies off the internet.

The only thing I'd really be worried about in her case is if the Philips will even last 2 to 4 years. Seeing as it has a hard drive, at least that part of it is not likely to last past 4 years. In fact, she'll be lucky if any model recorder sold in the US these days even makes it to 2 years, hard drive model or not.

Kind of disheartening to hear I know, but just so your not totally surprised.

No need to be disheartened, the Seagate HDD in the Philips 3575/76 has a 5-yr warranty (to Philips), so Seagate is pretty confident it'll work for awhile.

Here are some stats on the HDD (bottom of page).

The manual for virtually every HDD unit says essentially that the HDD is not for permanent storage. Some people are "scared" by this and read it as "the HDD is unreliable." Not even close to true... so much more reliable than DVD discs, they're not even in the same game, much less ballpark!

However, what's amazingly "scary" is this in a Panasonic EZ28 single-disc recorder manual, which has no HDD and must use DISCS to even BE a recorder:

"The manufacturer accepts no responsibility and offers no compensation for loss of recorded or edited material due to a problem with the unit or recordable media, and accepts no responsibility and offers no compensation for any subsequent damage caused by such loss.

Examples of causes of such losses are

• A DISC recorded and edited with this unit is played in a DVD Recorder or computer disc drive manufactured by another company.
• A DISC used as described above and then played again in this unit. + Say WHAT!
• A DISC recorded and edited with a DVD Recorder or computer disc drive manufactured by another company is played in this unit."

Gotta stay away from risky behavior in single-disc DVDRs: USING DVDs!?

What is the consumer warranty period for the 3575/6. Does Philips offer a separate 5 yr warranty to the consumer for the HDD.

For people as curious as me, here are the SKIP-#-#-# remote codes that work... other SEQUENTIAL 3-digit codes don't do anything. Menus can be backed out of with the BACK button except where noted with * or **:

• SKIP-1-2-3... FW info screen and DVD Media ID Utility (w/arrow right).
• SKIP-4-5-6... DTV and Test Modes. Can switch between them, then it waits for something?*
• SKIP-7-8-9... HDMI EDD DISP screen, 4 pp, lots of numbers.
• SKIP-3-2-1... LD Op Times: DVD-WR (write), DVD-RD (read) and CD op times are listed (hours?).
• SKIP-6-5-4... FW Update, tray opens for update disc.**
• SKIP-9-8-7... Manufacturer's Process Adjustment.**
  "Please insert DVD-R"
  "DVD-R --"
  "DVD+R --"

*Had to turn unit off to exit this menu.
**Had to pull power cord for a sec or two, then plug back in, to exit this menu.

WARNING: NO GUARANTEES! USE THESE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Good article. Thanks for posting the link.

Absolutely.

There are many models, Walmart has a number of them.

The 3575 RF pass through functions when the 3575 is powered on or off. But does the "amplification" of the pass through signal function when the 3575 is powered off?

For smaller HD TVs check out Circuit City and Best Buy.

In February I purchased a Dynex 19" widescreen LCD HDTV at Best Buy for $250. I view it from a distance of around five feet, just right in my home office.

Yeah, BB just had the newer model Dynex 19" on sale a week or so ago for that price again. That deal shows up every so often - especially lately.

It's by far the best deal out there in the stores for a 19" LCD. Great PQ, and excellent with SD, too. Have one myself.

As to my 3575 RF pass through question, I should have read the sticky thread more carefully where Wajo wrote:

"The 3575/76 is unique in that it has an active coax input, meaning the signal is amplified slightly thru the coax to the tuner and to downstream components (STB and TV) as long as the 3575/76 is plugged in... it doesn't have to be on for this OR for watching TV normally."

I just purchased this unit and have recorded lots of stuff I like. I don't really care for the DVDR, only HDD. Will the USB port allow me to attach an external hard drive for extra storage? Anything special that needs to be done to get the 3575 to do so?

I searched the thread a bit and did not find the answer so please forgive if I missed it.