Panasonic DMREZ25  DVD Recorder with Freeview

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-02-07 rating:
fair-to-middling, bit pricey
Have owned one of these for 18 months, is still working well with regular use -- mainly for recording a few Sky programs per week via SCART and watching DVDs.
Average DVB tuner (the one on my Philips LCD suffers less break-up), good picture, reasonable analogue sound.
Fan often comes on when recording and noise can be a bit distracting. Occasionally get disc noise on playback.
1hr and 2hr recording modes via SCART are good, 4hr is a little poor for my liking. Recorded DVB picture often seemed a bit poorer than the live picture was (more blocking, especially with smoke or large areas of same colour).
OK otherwise.

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review by: date: 2007-07-05 rating:
re previous reviews
had this recorder for about a month now and i have had no problems with the manual nor any problems recording from sky+. picture quality is very good, it records on all discs, for the money i dont think you will buy a better machine

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review by: date: 2007-07-03 rating:
Nice recorder -- Pity about the manual
I think this may well be a very good machine. However, I've had this kit for 6 months now and have not got around to doing anything other than play pre recorded disks (which it does very well). The reason for this lack of functionality is the rubbish manual which is the usual poor translation into Englishese. Even when I contacted Panasonic they agreed that it was poor but held out no hope of an english rewrite. The manual is fine if you just want to record the programmed tv channel. But try to fathom out how to say, record stored Sky+ programmes to archive them onto DVD. I did get a few clips onto a disk but gave up trying to edit them into a comprehensive programme. In short, the brochure promises marvellous features but the manual does not explain how to achieve any of these wonders.

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review by: date: 2007-06-21 rating:
Not so useful - even for a technophobe
Although another reviewer suggested this was ideal for technophobes, I haven't found life with this unit very gratifying. Apart from niggles like the fact that if you set it to record it will tell you that you have an unformatted disc, but taking 4 or 5 re-insertions of the disc before bothering to offer you the opportunity of formatting it.

I had not realized before buying it that you cannot watch one channel while recording another. This makes it almost totally useless for me. I'm 40, ergo I don't want to record loads of junk while I'm out getting legless, I want to record things I can't watch because TV companies invariably schedule programmes against one another for the same audience - tonight I wanted to watch Dalziel & Pascoe and record House - it is not to be. I am incredibly fed up with this heap of junk.


review by: date: 2007-04-02 rating:
Elegant and competent all-in-one unit
I needed to get a freeview receiver and a dvd player for the bedroom and my new HD enabled Samsung LE23R71BX high definition TV, so took my chances with this unit. What was most attractive about the unit was that it can play and record on all known DVD and CD formats, as well as having an in-built SD card reader and writer. It can deal with cards up to 2GB. As I wasn't going to spend £500 on a standalone blue-ray player, it's ability to upgrade standard DVD disks to HD output was very tempting. Simply put, I get to keep all my DVD movies and watch them at HD quality. A case of having my cake and eating it too...

This unit is unique in it's ability to read and write to DVD RAM disks. From a little investigation, this happens to be the best media for re-recording up to 10,000 times. A 4.7GB disk can record up to 4 hours. The unit intelligently labels all your recording so no more time wasted. It will also start recording from the end of your last recording so goodbye to the bad old days of repeated forwarding and rewinding to find the right spot. The other beauty about this is that all the movies that you record can then be played on standard DVD players, including those on your PC/laptop. Erasing unwanted movies takes only seconds and you are ready to go again. No more missing your fav shows or running out of tape etc.

Having the SD card reader built-in also means that you can now copy all your digital pictures on to a DVD/CD media directly. No more messing around complicated CD/DVD software which can cost up to £50 on their own.
It can read your digital pictures and have a screen show feature built-in to display your fav pictures on your TV screen. This is also done in High Definition mode if you have a high definition TV.

The freeview receiver quality? Great. I have been using freeview channels for over 3 years now and this unit gives excellent reception that is better than my Nokia 220T, which was the de-facto standard not too long ago. Furthermore, I am only using an indoor antenna so it is amazing how clear the freeview channels are.

I used a HDMI cable and setup was simple. It was literally plug in and play. The unit and my samsung HDTV detected each other immediately. This is the only way to get the best out of the unit after investing all your hard earn money. Unfortunately, it also means spending a little bit more for the HDMI cable which is not included.
It's a real gem, especially if you have just bought or thinking of buying a high definition TV. Makes life easy so that you can enjoy your movies stress free.

Highly recommended.

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