Hi

I can not seem to find any reviews on here for the philips 3305, is it any good?

I bought an alba from Sansbury in December I have only used it 4 times and whilst I was out the other day my wife said it went bang, it was not even being used!

I contacted sainsbury and they sad they no longer stock it, their only other model is the 3305, is it any good?

hi had this since begining of the week it is a good machine also be aware that the machine writes to -r/rw and +r/rw multiformat recorder the instruction manual says it only records to +r/rw though but i can confirm it records to both +r/-r

I bought one last weekend from Currys, to replace an Alba that I'd had to return to Sainsburys...so far, I'm delighted with it!
Picture quality through RGB is gorgeous; bright, vivid, good colour, 'smooth', and yet pin-sharp! Sound quality is excellent too!
Recording quality seems OK, although I've only used the 4-hour mode to archive some stuff off my Thompson Freeview box; the picture here is a little 'soft', though no worse than VHS, but over this coming weekend, I have some shorter archiving to do, and so will see how good the one and two hour modes are!
Overall, based mainly on pre-recorded playback, I'm very happy

Hi
Can any one help, i have a 3305 and thought after all this time it is Multi region - has anyone a hack for this machine? - I hacked me old dvdr70 and that worked fine so any help would be appreciated

I found a hack that works so I am off to watch a region 1 film - hack is located here http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks.ph...ilips+DVDR3305
Last edited by CRIM NO1 : 29-04-2006 at 08:31

bought one of these on Saturday, timer recording failed first time of asking, machine switched on at correct time but didn't record!, just main screen telling me that a blank disc was in. Going back today for a refund. Should have read customer reviews on Amazon as this timer recordings appear hit and miss.

i take back what i sayed about this machine its nothing but a pain 2 machines in 28 days utter rubbish

Buffy24, What problems have you had?

I am a bit unsure whether to keep it, as there are a few negative reviews about, but I am happy with it and not had any problems myself. I have still a day or two to take it back to Argos.

There are firmware updates on the philips website, to correct some bugs.
I have not had any problems with mine so far, but I updated the firmware straight away after buying it.

Philips DVDR3305 - firmware BT6_4

On a computer - download the file, unzip it and burn onto a blank CD-R.
Then put the CD into the machine and it will update the firmware.
Full instructions are in the pdf document. Mine orignally had version BT5_5, now is version BT6_4.

hi there andy_tech the first machine i had the power button wouldnt work on it and the second one after 4 succesful dvds it started to disc error when i tryes to finalise the disc
i did no editing on any of the discs

ps i also had the lastest firmware in it has well i have now got a panasonic dmr-es10 a that was the only other machine the richer sounds shop had got at the time up to now the panny machine is excellent and is a lot better than the philips