CD Freaks presents: The Philips DVDR3480 Review - Club CDFreaks

**imkidd57** · 21-04-2008

Please feel free to add your comments and questions in this thread

You can find the complete review here.

DVDR3480_packaging.jpg

*Bob* · 21-04-2008

heyyo Kidd.........nice review. I didn't know you were a reviewer. Good job!

**Arachne** · 21-04-2008

Great first review Imkidd - thanks

, and very helpful to me personally as when I have the £££'s I shall be purchasing one of these

**MegaDETH** · 21-04-2008

Excellent review and very thorough imkidd57!

Does anyone know if this drive is re-branded for sale in the USA?

donquixote · 21-04-2008

Does anyone know when this will be available in the US? Thank you.

**imkidd57** · 06-05-2008

Unfortunately there appear to be no models for North America. As of today there are only four regional suffixes to the DVDR3480 model name on the Philips firmware directory; for which a bit of delving about tells us that:

/05 = UK, Ireland
/31 = Netherlands, France, Belgium, Italy, etc (i.e. Western EU)
/51 = Russian Federation, Ukraine, etc
/58 = Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, etc (i.e.Eastern EU)

**imkidd57** · 18-05-2008

Update: I just noticed that there seems to be a small bug to do with RGB pass-through.

If you power-cycle the unit at the wall, then on restarting the unit goes into standby but the signal pass-through drops to composite. After you pull it out of standby, then RGB starts and is preserved when subsequently going back into standby.

So just beware that you'll always need to fully fire up the machine for RGB to be passed through correctly. Going into standby after that is fine, but you'll lose it if you power-off.

I asked Philips about this and they gave me some rubbish about a firmware update solving the problem. The 03_08 update definitely doesn't.

uSerKey · 2 Weeks Ago

imkidd57,
Nice review.

I am shopping for a device now and trying to decide between
Philips DVDR3480
Philips DVP5990
Pioneer DV410
the latter two are only players but support HDMI.
Philips USB support seems superior to Pioneers, (according to a few forums)

Quote from your review:

Quote:

The front USB port is playback only and not available as source for recording.

Wishing it could be a destination for recording!

I searched around, it seems some inexpensive players now feature recording to USB device (Audio CD converted to MP3 and recorded to USB device.) Video to USB device would be the next step I guess.
Anyway, I can't wait so long for something that might not ever be produced.
Technology is certainly moving on though.

21-04-2008	#1 (permalink)
imkidd57 Senior Moderator & Editor Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: New Fajara Posts: 7,319	CD Freaks presents: The Philips DVDR3480 Review <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> Please feel free to add your comments and questions in this thread You can find the complete review here. DVDR3480_packaging.jpg Last edited by imkidd57; 18-05-2008 at 21:53. Reason: Added better image.

21-04-2008	#2 (permalink)
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21-04-2008	#4 (permalink)
MegaDETH CD Freaks Senior Reviewer & Moderator Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Watertown Posts: 3,360	Re: CD Freaks presents: The Philips DVDR3480 Review Excellent review and very thorough imkidd57! Does anyone know if this drive is re-branded for sale in the USA?

21-04-2008	#5 (permalink)
donquixote New on Forum Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2	Re: CD Freaks presents: The Philips DVDR3480 Review Does anyone know when this will be available in the US? Thank you.

06-05-2008	#6 (permalink)
imkidd57 Senior Moderator & Editor Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: New Fajara Posts: 7,319	Re: CD Freaks presents: The Philips DVDR3480 Review Unfortunately there appear to be no models for North America. As of today there are only four regional suffixes to the DVDR3480 model name on the Philips firmware directory; for which a bit of delving about tells us that: /05 = UK, Ireland /31 = Netherlands, France, Belgium, Italy, etc (i.e. Western EU) /51 = Russian Federation, Ukraine, etc /58 = Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, etc (i.e.Eastern EU)

18-05-2008	#7 (permalink)
imkidd57 Senior Moderator & Editor Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: New Fajara Posts: 7,319	Re: CD Freaks presents: The Philips DVDR3480 Review Update: I just noticed that there seems to be a small bug to do with RGB pass-through. If you power-cycle the unit at the wall, then on restarting the unit goes into standby but the signal pass-through drops to composite. After you pull it out of standby, then RGB starts and is preserved when subsequently going back into standby. So just beware that you'll always need to fully fire up the machine for RGB to be passed through correctly. Going into standby after that is fine, but you'll lose it if you power-off. I asked Philips about this and they gave me some rubbish about a firmware update solving the problem. The 03_08 update definitely doesn't.

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