DMR BS850

Amazingly versatile; Superb BD record quality; Twin Freesat tuners; Viera Cast internet access

Requires broadcasters to play ball; AVCHD dubs to DVD in SD

The 500GB drive can store approximately 77 hours of HD, or 215 hours of SD. If your hard drive starts to clog up with DR sat recordings, you can compress them on the drive itself. This is a real-time process. So if you have six hours of Nature's Great...

I cannot receive freeview and no-one makes a 22inch freesat TV so this was the best option at the price. Only one issue - the tuner doesn't boot up my 22 in. Panasonic freeview TV as well as it does the 37 in. freesat model. Operation otherwise...

Up to Panasonics usual good standard, great reproduction. However when editing recorded programmes their is now a substantial delay on playback where the edit was performed. This delay was not evident on my previous Panasonic.

Due to on-going problems with our Freeview Humax PVR unit we decided to change it with a Which? Best Buy Panasonic twin Freesat tuner Blu-ray recorder and also receive HD transmissions. It was extremely easy to set up and produces excellent pictures...

I asked in several shops the simple question "will this unit really allow me to make blu-ray disks from off-air programmes in HD." "Of course, they said". "But surely that can't be true - what would be the point of the copyright management system...

Not the cheapest unit on the market but it does so much so worth the money. Good points - Freesat navigation, functionality and choice of channels including free HD; prompt to tape HD versions (where they exist) when setting up to record a non-HD...

I have a few DVD HDD recorders Pioneer 5100, Sony 710 Sony 770 Toshiba XS30 XV48 etc and so any new recorder had to be a major technology step forward. The Panasonic 750 (same as 850 but 250GB HDD instead of 500GB) seemed ideal to go with my LG 1080p...

Very expensive but it does work. I haven't noticed any image improvement over the 4 year old predecessor but that be the performance of the Panasonic TX-L37V10 connected to it. Stopping serial recording is still a mystery but I am sure that it can be...

This is a powerful piece of kit. It is easy to setup, gives very good quality pictures and can record two channels whilst watching a Blu-Ray/DVD. The timing options on the programme guide are comprehensive, intuitive and easy to use. The more...

Excellent but missed many 'guide link' recordings. Replaced by Amazon without question. New item same fault. Being investigated by Panasonic.