Never been a great fan of their designs but got talked into one of their early DVD recorders a few years ago.
It had an awful menu/control system and never worked reliably - about half the discs I tried to record went in the bin. After a firmware upgrade - that was challenging to do, to say the least! - nothing changed. Lots of e-mails to their technical support didn't help either.
And then they said they were no longer supporting the model - about 18 months after it was in their current line-up.
They might have improved their offerings since then but i wouldn't know - I have studiously avoided any Philips kit ever since.