20 Most Recent Philips DVDR3455H/37B - Page 2 Questions & Answers

I went to look at getting it fixed and wit was going to cost as much as a new device, so I pulled it to bits and found that the rubber band in the DVD player was frail. This meant it didn't have enough strenght to load the disk completely.

I went to a stationary shop and brought a new one the same size and it is perfect.

Cost. 10c.

You will need to be careful and confident pulling it to bits and some of the screws are no standard. good luck.

Alternatively there is a slot under the unit that you can force the DVD mechanism open or closed. A hassle though.

hello. I've had the same problem...I resolved it leaving some cd or dvd inside for ever.

To put into a dvd, look at the picture and the service manual
http://www.zshare.net/download/824070401c355e7d/

Check whether the lens is working properly

You may have a damaged DVD. Try turning the power off. Look for a small hole in the front of the DVD palyer. You can usually stick a pin in there to release the door. Take out the DVD and try a different one.
If there is no DVD, the device may be disabled in WIndows. Two other causes could be that the power plug on back of DVD is off or the data cable is on backwards. If the DVD worked before, these are unlikely.

Hi there,

Well you get your firmware from below link -

http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/cpindex.pl?scy=US&slg=AEN&cat=DVD_HOME_THEATER_CA&sct=DVD_HARDDISK_RECORDERS_SU&session=20090905122441_125.63.122.112&grp=HOME_ENTERTAINMENT_GR&ctn=DVDR3455H/37&mid=Link_Software&hlt=Link_Software

Good Luck!!

Thanks

Hi, You can download the required manual from:
http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/d/dvdr3480_05/dvdr3480_05_dfu_eng.pdf
Hope this solves your problem. For more help and clarifications, please reply to this post. Thanks

My 3 yo daughter was very rough on ours. I replaced the belt on the drive with an "o" ring after it continually showed "blocked" and I was away again. You could probably pick one up from your local electronics shop.

from krystle i am an electronic tec:
what i have found the big difference between the philips dvdr3455h and the dvdr3575h is the
dvdr3455h boot from software on the hard drive and the dvdr3575h boot from an eprom.
the dvdr3455 has both booth software and movie edit software, if the hard drive become
bad in the 3455 or the software become corrupted it wil hang at the philips logo screen.
the dvdr3575h will boot with a bad hard drive or no hard drive at all you will you wont be able to
capture your video to the hard drive.
if the movie edit software become corrupt or damage when you press record button
it will just lock up the recorder.you will need a software reload if the software become corrupt.

if you need a reload on your hard drie email me i will tell you what you need to do my email is [email protected]

Hi,

Email address is [email protected]

Many thanks for this

Greatly appreciated

Scott

HI,

Please read through this article placed in the bellow mentioned link.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=940657


Actually it would take you through a couple of other questions which u have mentioned in your explaination.

Thanks

I found a work around for the problem where I boot up from DVD then don't power it off. Th e following is what I did to accomplish this:
1) I created a DVD with the latest firmware for the DVDR3455 put on it.
2) I plug the unit in, then while powering on the player I hold in the DVD open/close button. You will eventually get the text "LOAD" on the front display.
3) I then manually open the DVD door (see "dvd won't eject" on fixya web site) and put in my DVD with the firmware on it and close the door.
4) When the DVD door closes the player will read the firmware from the DVD. You will see the text "COPY" and "BOOT" displayed on the front, then it will go back to "PHILLIPS".
5) If you have your TV still connected to the player you will see the 3 free trial of YES dvd displayed on the screen. Press OK and you everything should be working.

Then you just have to pray that you don't loose power or you will have to go through all of this again.

This is pain but at least I can still use the player and get more use out of it.

Try the philips website for the user manual.

The REC Mode of the recordings was set so high that there is not enough space on the DVD to make a recording. Cannot change at this point. For future recordings, switch to LSP or some other non-quality mode.

I was having the same problem if I used DVD+R blanks, but the programs would record fine if I used Memorex DVD+RW rewritables. Until today, that is - now it won't let me burn anything from the HDD to a disk!  My 3455H is about two years old.
Gotta say I'm quite disappointed with it, and would never consider another Philips product. :(

What is the exact model of your unit? Wait a sec I will give you one.

when dvd connect with reciver satlait and tv' to serch channel to see satlait and wich you like to record that press source many time until see ext1.

Press the DVD button on the Philips remote. Make sure the yellow part of the RCA cable is plugged into Output/CVBS/Out on the back of the Philips, and that it is plugged into a yellow input of your TV. Change your TV channel to Av1, av2, video 1, video 2, aux, aux 2, or whatever the correct video channel is on your TV. Then press setup - you will get your picture.
In order for the coax connection to work on Ch. 3 of your TV, you will have to get an additional piece of equipment - an RF modulator. It's better just to stick with the RCA red, yellow, white cables.