Panasonic DMR-ES10EB-S DVD RAM Disc Recorder Best Buy

Broke twice, and slow! - 20 Feb 2007

3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

I'm on the my second player, and about to return it to get another!!! Yes, it's broken again. The first one died after about 2-3 months, as it didn't want to read any dvd. It didn't matter if it was a dvd-rw, dvd-r or a brand new dvd.
I got it swapped in the shop I bought it from.
This one has been fine for many months, but now it's doing the same. It is saying that dvd's are unformatted, when they are not. I format them again, and it comes with the same message. It's also starting to get picky over what it wants to play, and this includes purchased films.

It's also slow. From off to record takes over a minute. From off to play is about the same time. It's very slow. Also, if you are watching a film, and you turn the player off, then it goes back to the very start. Not like most players which stop half way.

I would recommend getting a dvd recorder with a hard disk, as you don't have the issues of dvd's getting scratched, and the player only wanting to use bits of the dvd.

I had been putting up with it being slow, but now it's just annoying. I wish I had spent my money on something else, and I'm very disappointed as it's such a good make. Don't buy this one. You also can't edit dvd's before you finalise them (dvd-r), so you can't add chapters. And it does a check at about 3am if you put it on quickstart mode, which is very noisy, and has woken me up before I turned this function off!!

Good but....... - 25 Jul 2006

11 out of 12 found this review helpful.

I was very pleased with this at first, the picture quality on long-play is very good except for Football and boxing. Any fast sports and the picture pixillates. Sports should be recorded on short-play which gives 2 hours and long enough for most football except where there's extra time(World Cup!). If something good comes on and I want to tape it, I can't just bung in a cd, it has to be formatted and this is annoying! To be honest vcr tapes had a lot of bonuses in terms of being user friendly, bung it in, press record, don't like that? bit-wipe it!
I will eventually buy a hard drive recorder.

Great DVD - 01 May 2006

15 out of 15 found this review helpful.

Great bit of kit. If all you're after is a replacement for your worn out VCR, get this! Very easy to use, works fine with my non-widescreen TV and gives great picture quality. Works fine with Sky too. Easy to setup too, which is a bonus.

Better than I was expecting! - 01 Apr 2006

17 out of 17 found this review helpful.

Not only does this do a great job, replacing my old VCR, but it also records directly from the sky planner without setting the timer (just hit the ext-link button), and if you use DVD-RAM it will time slip and/or playback and record at the same time just like a hard drive recorder (COOL!)
4 hour recording is better than VHS, 8 hour per disk is OK if your on holiday, so 1 or 2 hour per disk must be great (I don't use better than 4 hours per disk unless I want to keep it!)

Got mine in the sales for less than this, but got a better bit of kit than I thought for the money. Better than DVD, cheaper than HDD as long as you get a pack of DVD-RAM disks.

S-Video not work. - 24 Feb 2006

5 out of 18 found this review helpful.

bought a Panasonic DMR-ES10, I followed instruction to connect another dvd player to it by using s video. It does not work. otherwise good.