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I'm thinking of buying a Panasonic HDD recorder (DMR-XW380EBK) with twin
Freeview HD tuners and DVD recorder.

It's quite expensive, so I would like any comments on this or rival
equivalent systems. I particularly want twin tuners and DVD recorder.

What does anyone think, specially anyone who owns one already?

TIA

Hugh

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On 04/10/10 16:38, Paul Heslop wrote:
Hugh Newbury wrote:

I'm thinking of buying a Panasonic HDD recorder (DMR-XW380EBK) with twin
Freeview HD tuners and DVD recorder.

It's quite expensive, so I would like any comments on this or rival
equivalent systems. I particularly want twin tuners and DVD recorder.

What does anyone think, specially anyone who owns one already?

TIA

Hugh

panasonic recorders are generally classed as the best. I don't own the
twin HD tuner one but I'll stand by them otherwise. generally they
will take just about any kind of blank DVD, which is great, and you
can use the hard disc to edit out bits of programs etc before
transferring to disc. They also usually have a feature which allows
you to set how long a recording will be exactly on a disc, so you get
the best possible result.

I agree about the reliability of Panasonic. I think I'll order it
tomorrow if there are no votes here against by then.

Thanks, Paul.

Hugh

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www.evershot-weather.org

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On 04/10/10 21:57, Paul Heslop wrote:

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hey Hugh, I just took a look on amazon at people's views on it and
there are a few negative comments, you may want to have a quick look

http://tinyurl.com/33nvsfa

some good reviews too, but only fair to warn you :O)


Thanks, Paul. I've also googled for comments. The drawbacks seem minor,
I think. (I hope!)

Hugh

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On 05/10/10 20:40, Paul Heslop wrote:

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just out of interest Hugh, have you purchased from someone who will
accept a return? I don't actually see you returning it personally, I
could probably find at least one negative review for just about
anything if I tried hard enough :O)

Yes, I could return it. But it's just arrived and there's no way I'm
going to send it back. I've been practically hugging it for an hour!

Mark you, the 120-page instruction book looks quite daunting, as someone
pointed out in their comments. But I'll take it a step at a time. At
least it's in decent English (a friend of mine calls such booklets 'the
destructions' often with good reason).

Hugh

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Hugh Newbury

www.evershot-weather.org

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On 06/10/2010 11:34, Hugh Newbury wrote:
On 05/10/10 20:40, Paul Heslop wrote:

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just out of interest Hugh, have you purchased from someone who will
accept a return? I don't actually see you returning it personally, I
could probably find at least one negative review for just about
anything if I tried hard enough :O)

Yes, I could return it. But it's just arrived and there's no way I'm
going to send it back. I've been practically hugging it for an hour!

Mark you, the 120-page instruction book looks quite daunting, as someone
pointed out in their comments. But I'll take it a step at a time. At
least it's in decent English (a friend of mine calls such booklets 'the
destructions' often with good reason).

Hugh


I have one of these, a few niggles about the statup speeds and I don't
like the menu system as much as that on my previous Pioneer dvr but the
picture quality is excellent and the functionalaity is just like it says
on the box,
I only had mine a few weeks before it went belly-up, I'd bought it from
Amazon and their service was brilliant. They paid the courier costs
both ways (and upgraded me to next-day delivery for my trouble) and said
I could hang on to the original one for up to 4 weeks before I had to
send it back.
The new one is chunterng along happily, I reckon I was just unlucky with
the first one. I'd certainly recommend it and Amazon.

Bob

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On 06/10/10 15:12, Noggin wrote:

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I'd certainly recommend it and Amazon.


Good: that's where I bought mine.

Hugh

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