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5 Reviews for Panasonic DMR-EX75EB-S - DVD Recorder with 160GB Hard Disk - Freeview Tuner - and HDMI With 1080i Upscaling
My First PVR and very pleased. Picture First Class - 27 Jun 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
This is my first PVR and I am very pleased. Selecting what to record from the EPG is quick and easy. The instruction manual is comprehensive but not the most user friendly.
Some people like the remote, other hate it. I can understand its easy to hit the guide key instead or the up arrow. Myself I find the remote control very good, a lot better than the piece of rubbish that came with my Toshiba TV.
Picture recorded in SP mode and played via a HDMI lead upscaled to 1080i are first class. DVD's the same.
Overall I would recommend it, especially as it fallen in price.
Potentially good but riddled with problems - 21 Jun 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful.
I've always liked the Panasonic way of doing things - the quality of pictures is good, you can easily set chapter points and strip out the adverts from recordings, the EPG works intuitively, as do most of the menu options.
But there are problems - seemingly new problems that didn't exist with earlier models. At this time, live playback of BBC1 seems to be dropping frames - although recorded items do play back fine. This may be a result of a change of Mux rates at the BBC, I don't know, but as it stands, I couldn't recommend the EX75 with this serious fault.
Other problems - an earlier machine I had, the E85, had difficulty writing certain recordings and would repeatedly foul up trying to create the discs. It turned out to be not the disc itself, but a software issue caused by the nature of the recordings (perhaps the positioning of chapter breaks, or some exact physical data contents) - you could repeatedly try and fail to master a disc, yet removing one item, or using non-high-speed (which re-encodes the MPEG2) would make it work. This fault, not present in the EH60, seems to be occuring here on my EX75.
If you plan on buying an EX75, and using Region 1 discs, you will need really to keep another region-free DVD player to hand. The reason is that in the EX75, the timer mode is permanently on - you can't shake it off, except by deleting all your timer recordings! Previously you could turn off timer, which would allow region one discs to play. You can still play USA discs, (assuming you've made it region-free of course!) by tediously going into NTSC mode.
Another thing I miss is the proper picture in picture of "Timeslip" mode. Now when you use timeslip, you can step forward a lump of time, but it only shows you the time amount, no picture in picture any more (compared with earlier models) and annoyingly the On screen time position disappears once you do a single jump.
All in all, although there are some improved features, there are still things that I wouldn't have put in the design. For instance, dubbing still takes far too many clicks through the menu. NTSC mode should have simply been a button on the remote, without any limitations about silly old timer mode - if it is able to record at the particular time then it should do so, if it can't then tough! The user doesn't need annoying restrictions of doing this or that. The remote for the EX75 is annoying (luckily earlier remotes are compatible!) - no separate buttons for HDD and DVD, one that alternates.
There's also a bug in the EPG section - go forward a day, fine - go back a day - wrong - brings up the Profile selections instead!]
The DVD drive is very noisy too.... It sounds like it is going to fail very soon, just like my EH60 did....
A great machine - 20 Jun 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
I'm really pleased with this unit, it does everything I expected of it. The image quality is excellent. There are four recording settings for picture quality (XP, SP, LP, and EP) with XP being the highest quality. To be honest, I find it hard to tell the difference between XP and LP, however from LP to EP there is a really big drop off in quality. I can't see myself ever using the EP setting. I also love the way you can record and watch a recording at the same time. I can't honestly see how I managed without one of these machines now.
My only gripe is that there seems to be no way of displaying the time left for the recording you are playing. The only time left that gets displayed is for the total time left on the disk. Also, a couple of times the digital signal has disappeared for some unknown reason, although this hasn't happened for a little while now - switching off and switching back on again seemed to fix it.
All in all though a great machine - I love it!
Excellent....but a few minor points - 20 May 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful.
This is a superb recorder. The upscaling via HDMI cable vastly improves the picture quality. The built in Freeview also gives a far sharper picture than a standalone Freeview box. My only gripes are that the unit display does not show Time Remaining on HD or DVD, and the design of the remote control is very poor indeed. Placing the TV Guide button directly above the menu navigation button was an extremely stupid idea. It is very easy to press TV Guide whilst trying to navigate the menu screens. Obviously designed by a Japanese engineer with very small hands!! The recorder is also a little noisy when using fast forward search. For those who have complained that its impossible to do High Speed Copying, try switching this option on in the Set up menus. Not sure why the function needs to be switched on, after all who wants to sit and wait for a real time copy??
Excellent - 11 May 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful.
Quite simply, tihs is a superb product. Set up is a complete cinch. You just connect it to your telly, switch it on and hey presto it tunes every digital and analogue channel automatically.
I would echo what petercats says above. The manual is quite complicated but the navigation is so intuitive that you don't really need it.