Panasonic DMR-EX95 - 250gb Hard Drive DVD Recorder & VCR Combination - With 1080P Up-Conversion & Freeview - Silver |
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Panasonic
EAN: 5025232394340
Label: Panasonic
Manufacturer: Panasonic
Model: DMR-EX95VEBS
Publisher: Panasonic
Release Date: 2007-05-07
Studio: Panasonic |
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Something to be aware of, 2008-02-24
I bought this item just over a month a go as an anniversary present for my parents.
After they had unwrapped it at a family gathering I plugged it all in etc but got a message of 'HDDERR' and the DVD just opened. Thats the sum total of my experience!!! Totally embarassing.
I researched this very carefully but had not heard of such problems but when I went surfing again, a couple of similar things cropped up with reference to the Samsung HDD disk being temperamental.
I didn't buy it from Amazon but a company called Cheap Telly (yes, the name does rather sound iffy in hindsight). Apparently, according to Panasonic, you have got 28 days from their despatch date (not delivery date)in which you would get the unit replaced. Even thought I didn't plug it in until the 28 days had passed they are now saying that I will have to take the unit for 'repair'. It's outrageous!!! My parents surprise was completely ruined and they add insult with this.
I'm still negotiating with Cheap Telly but for the price I paid (still over £400)And because of the name of Panasonic, I expected much better things. Amazon are usually excellent in this respect from my own experience so you should have better service if you buy from them
Others here have enjoyed the unit so it may well be worth purchasing. Just beware and make sure that you check yours as early as possible as the customer service from Panasonic isn't really what you would hope for.
Versatile but complicated, 2008-05-14
After many hours of frustration I finally managed to get my Loewe Planus TV, Panasonic satellite receiver and this Panasonic DMR-EX95 DVD/VHS/HD recorder to work together. The wiring-up diagram in the manual didn't work and was different from that suggested by the Panasonic satellite receiver's manual! I also have the Panasonic DMR75V DVD/VHS recorder so am familiar with many of the functions, but I still found the plethora of features daunting. I'm sure I'll never use many of them.
Good points: having an all-in-one box to play and record video tapes, DVDs and lots of hours on the Hard Drive. Also helpful is the automatic starting of commercial DVDs and videos so you don't have to fiddle around to find the correct drive. The handset has bigger and easier to read numerals on the buttons and there's more use of coloured buttons.
Bad points: the awe-inspiring complexity of the features; the difficulty in seeing the status lights on the front of the machine, for example, the display on the device to tell one which drive is operating is very small and unreadable at a few feet of distance. The only way is to recognize that the tiny blue image means the Hard Drive; orange the VHS; red the DVD and yellow the SD function. I can barely tell the difference, at a distance, between the DVD and VHS display. On the DMR75 there is a button for DVD and a button for VHS. It would be much better to have four buttons on the handset for this DMR-EX95 rather than having to decipher at a distance which colour is displayed. I wonder about people who are colour blind.
I'm sure that in a few weeks I'll be happier with the machine, but it's an up-hill battle.
Here are a few tips I've discovered subsequent to the review above: If you're wanting to use the Sky Planner facility with External Link, you can only watch something recorded on the same drive as the proposed recording and you can't watch a video if you want to record on a DVD or the HD. The way round this is to select the programmes in the Sky Planner, in order to switch on the corrects channels, and then using the timer programme facility on the recorder type in the satellite channel (eg SAT06) as the channel to be recorded for each programme and type in the date, start and stop times and the choice of drive for each programme separately. (A good thing about the recorder is you don't then have to remember to press a timer button.) With this, albeit rather cumbersome method, you can record on one drive and view on another and also record a sequence of different satellite channels with the Sky Planner doing the switching as the recorder can't do this.
Tries to do too much, 2008-01-28
An excellent well made piece of kit. The VHS player although adequate is not as good as the Sony one that I replaced. It is a shame that it will not copy, copy protected tapes but did not expect it to be able to. I would like to see a facility that monitors the signal being copied and stop the copying when the signal ceases. The manual is very complicated and the machine seems to have a vast quantity of facilities that I will never use. I would like to see a simple machine. Also it is claimed to upscale to 1080p but does not seem to.
A must have recorder, 2008-02-20
This is an excellent reliable product and I recommend this to everybody. It is 4 things in one box, SET-TOP BOX, HARD DRIVE, DVD RECORDER, VHS RECORDER. G A Caruana
Brilliant piece of kit, 2008-05-13
Have had this a week now and think it's absolutely brilliant - Easy to set up and he instructions not at all difficult to follow - Just what I wanted
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