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Joined on: Sunday, 1st August 2004, 20:50, Last used: Sunday, 1st August 2004, 20:50

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About this user: Non-technie guy who watches movies and records them.

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RE: Philips DVDR70 - Response from Philips Support

Just to give an update - I phoned Philips support and told them about the error message. The person replied, "Oh that means there`s a hardware problem - you`ll just have to return it to your dealer. How old is your machine?"

"Three days", I said.

"Three days?" - He seemed surprised but from what I gather with Philips products he shouldn`t have been surprised at the unreliability.

"What does D8032A9C4 mean?", I asked.

"Dunno - some sort of error code." (Well I had kind of gathered that.)

"Don`t you have some sort of index you can look up which tells you what that code means".

"Nope."

I thanked him for his time.

And no I won`t be doing any kind of reset or further fiddling. The Philips was returned and I promptly went out and bought a Sharp VCR which will do me nicely for the next few years until DVD Recorders improve...

RE: HDD OR NOT HDD..THAT IS THE QUESTION!

That does it!

My 3 day old Philips DVDR70 with its first fault is going straight back to the shop. I think I`ll buy a VCR and in a coupla years when the DVD technology has settled down think about switching again...

Philips DVDR70 - Error Message D8032A9C4

I bought a Philips DVDR70 DVD Recorder 3 days ago - it recorded find and when I used Videoplus it recorded fine. Today I had programmed some recordings with Videoplus - the first one recorded fine, the second recorded about two minutes and then left an error message displayed on the front of "D8032A9C4". I`ve tried recording directly, switching disks but it always records for about a minute and then leaves that message on the front. I searched Philips website and tried Google and haven`t seen D8032A9C4 anywhere.

I could return the machine for a refund (I`m tempted after seeing all the really bad things written about Philips DVD Recorders). Could anyone tell me what D8032A9C4 means, please?