Panasonic DMREZ25 ?DVD Recorder with Freeview

Panasonic DMREZ25 ?DVD Recorder with Freeview
Record hours of your favourite TV programmes on DVD supports with the DMREZ25 player-recorder! This device has a built-in Freeview tuner so you can access free digital TV channels. It also has TimeSlip and other functions for storing your videos!The DMREZ25 has a multi-standard burner that is compatible with most recordable DVD supports, too.The DV input on the DMREZ25 lets you connect your camcorder to the player and save your footage to a digital support. The DMREZ25 DVD player-recorder also has a digital HDMi connection, so you can enjoy high-definition image quality for all your video files.The easy-to-use DMREZ25 has all the functions and technology you need to create your own digital video library.

Customer Review: 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.

Customer Review: 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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Amazon Price: ?218.35
Used Price: ?165.00
Customer Review: You CAN’T transfer your purchased VHS collection to DVD with this
Good * The Freeview digital tuner images are great (no analogue tuner at all - unlike the earlier EZ45 model I bought for my Mum). * Electronic Program Guide (EPG) can be configured to remember programs for quick start-up (unlike my Humax). * Video and DVD images are crisp. * DVD records and plays every option imaginable (+R, -R, +RW, -RW, DL & RAM - RAM is most flexible). * It’s great for copying home video into DVD, either from VHS or direct from your camcorder via a DV socket. Bad * Most commercial video is Macrovision encoded and this device deliberately stops you copying them to DVD - even from an external source. * Menu and Titling options on home burnt DVDs are not as flexible as I’d like. * No SD Card input which the earlier EZ45 model had. * Remote control crowded and hard to find all the options.
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With a Twin Freeview tuner and the 80GB HDD you will never miss aprogram with the SVRS500.
Used Price: ?72.95
Customer Review: ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT
CAN’T FAULT THIS RECORDER? SIMLE TO USE, GOOD VALUE, AND REALLY GOOD TO USR, EXCELLENT ALL ROUND USED FOR 10 WEEKS NO TROUBLE ATALL?
Customer Review: Love it…
Many negative reviews below, BUT (fingers crossed) I’ve had mine up and running a week now and - well, yes, it’s a bit slow, and no, it’s not completely silent, but I still LOVE it. No messing with DVDs, you can see exactly how much room you have on the hard drive, I can pause and rewind TV whenever, and you can be recording 2 programmes at once while watching something else you recorded all at the same time (where else can you get that?)! Channel 5 reception not fantastic but also never was with my last freeview box, so it’s not really bothering me. I may one day be tempted into cable because it’s pretty much picture perfect ALL the time, but I’ll still have it hooked up to this machine for recording. I had a true electrickery anorak (and perfectionist) come round the other day and he made very impressed noises about how excellent it was for the price, so I’ve got no complaints. Think the answer is to not have it in your bedroom if you’re a light sleeper. See also review below by Allan Kelly below from 12 Aug 07, very helpful.
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Used Price: ?151.99
Customer Review: A good DVD recorder
This is my third DVD recorder and I’ve now had it for about four months. The first two were Phillips machines: the first was an expensive model, bought for about ?400 three years ago - this worked well at first but developed a number of problems (shop bought DVDs not playing properly (sticking, jumping); sound out of sync with the picture on shop bought DVDs and then finally it stopped recording too). After much hassle with the seller we eventualy managed to get it exchanged for another Philips model: this too worked well at first but developed the same problems as the first machine. In the interim I had bought a DVD player for ?25 from Tesco that worked perfectly. These experiences taught me that in the area of DVD players and recorders, expense and tradename don’t necessarily buy you reliability so when I was looking to replace the second Phillips recorder I had two rules: not a Phillips (!) and as cheap as possible. If necessary then you can throw it away when it stops working! I settled on the Samsung because it has the VCR facility built in too. Functionally I am very happy with this machine, it all works and four months on there is no hint of a problem so…fingers crossed. The recording quality on DVD is better than a VCR, particularly if you record on the 2-hour setting, and is repeatably so, unlike tapes. My advice to those considering buying a DVD recorder is not to think that the more expensive models are necessarily more reliable. Go for a cheap one - if you want the VCR functinality too so you can play your old videos then this model is a good buy. The only reason I’m not giving it five stars is that I’ve only had it four months and am still nervous from the Phillips experience!
Customer Review: Simplicity itself after some teething problems
First of all- to my absolute horror when I received this machine and began setting it up, I quickly discovered that it isn’t actually a `multi-region’ DVD Player, at least it isn’t right out of the box. After numerous failed attempts at playing region 1 DVD’s and consulting the manual only to discover that it’s implied the machine will only play discs that are described as either region `2′ or `All’, I contacted Amazon to inform them of this error in the description of the item. After some confusion and miss-communication I was eventually provided with the directions necessary to configure the machine to play all region DVD’s, including `All’ (I know, I was confused too). To ease your set-up of the machine should you chose to purchase it I’d advise contacing Amazon and they’ll be able to provide you with the same directions, which are simplicity itself to implement. Ok, panic over, now onto the review… After trawling thought what seemed like hundreds of DVD players not just on Amazon but on many other electronic stores as well- searching in vain for a machine that had just a handful of concurring positive reviews to its credit, I finally came across this attractive (if a little larger than most) player. I wasn’t even in the market for a combined video player, but what a useful feature it’s turned out to be! All that I was really looking for in a DVD player was one that could play multi-region DVD’s and also possessed a recordable feature. Trading up from a player that cost just ?35 three years ago, I decided to spend a little more the second time around and hopefully avoid up-grading after only a year or so. The recordable feature in particular was new to me, but very easy to get to grips with, as was the video recorder, which utilises the exact same facility to record from the television (simply switching on the remote between `video’ and `DVD’ is all it takes), so all in all I have to say I’m very satisfied with the quality and most importantly the ease of recording, just as I am with the video tape -to- blank DVD transference (blank DVD discs are not included however). The few minor negative points I have to make about this machine are really only concerned with the DVD Player and the functions it provides. The facilities that aren’t available, which I got used to with my previous player are- a resume button to allow rapid pick-up and continuation of a disc, a display button that gives you access to total disc and chapter times (an info. facility is available here, but is much more limited) and lastly, an A-B looping facility, which if you’re a fan of any particularly moment in a film or TV programme allows you to replay that scene over and over to your hearts content. Despite these omissions, the facilities that are available are top-notch and easy to locate on the sleek remote control. One other point with the video part of the machine though is that it can be quite noisy, particularly when rewinding/fast-forwarding video tapes. It’s still early days for me and my machine, and there’s always the possibility with any piece of electronic kit that faults will start to appear down the line, but at the moment (despite some teething problems in the beginning) my machine works perfectly and on the evidence so far I can highly recommend it as exceeding the positive reviews it’s accumulated so far on this page. If the number of players with bad reviews I discovered in my search are anything to go by (at best- mixed reviews that leave you in no better a position to make a decision about purchasing) then machine’s like this one are as close to gold dust as you’re likely to find and in my view should be snapped up sharpish before they disappear into Amazon-no-longer-available-oblivion forever.
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