Lecteur enregistreur DMR-EX83

Once you get through & understand the Manual its worth it

Manual is verbose

The fact that it has a hard drive too

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Being able to store and show photographs ; Being able to copy using the series option saves a lot of time

None that I have noticed

I haven't used this DVR much at the moment, The DVR has shown great potential as I have set up a cctv camera to moniter my cat who has just recieved emergency treatment from my vetenery ; I was able to stop recording, restart recording imediatley and...

the tiny button behind the pull down flap would have been better if they were colour coded instead of all black. especially if you have it in a low light area ; OK most of the time you will use the remote, but occasionaly the battery may die or you...

Plenty of capacity on HDD ; Added benefit of recording and or copying to DVD RAM discs ; Mathes existing cinema system ; Usual Panasonic reliability ; We only ever buy Panasonic

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Good looking and easy to use DVD recorder. The picture quality of both recorded videos and DVDs is high, and certainly acceptable for a mid-price machine. The editing software is very good, once you get to grips with it, as is the printed manual....

Only that the start-up time from the default sleep mode seems like about 2 minutes. Some adjustments in the Settings will rectify this

The picture quality is as good as it gets for standard Freeview ; HDMI connection was slightly better than SCART connection ; The device records from other SCART connected devices (e.g old PVR), so I can archive old recordings ; Series recording was...

It only has one tuner compared to many PVRs that have 2, so make sure you have a Freeview TV to watch other channels. Twin tuner models are available, but very pricey ; To register the device so it can play Divx VOD files (movies etc) you have to...

Good Price easy to set up

Has complcated menu system

Recording, editing and then dropping it on to disc

Keeps switching from TV to PVR for no reason ; Could do with a twin tuner

Neat, tidy DVD player/recorder, good hard drive space to record on to, good picture quality on play back, easy to use after reading the instructions

Remote control supplied batteries were dead, had to fit new batteries before the remote would work ; When everything is switched to 'off' on the unit (this saves on electricity) the word 'guide' appears for a few minutes every so often ; No time clock...