Blue ray HD recorders

I have a Panasonic Viera Freesat TV and am thinking of getting a Blue
ray/HD recorder.

Thinking about getting the Panasonic DMR-BS850. Anyone got one? Good
choice?

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"Geoff Berrow" wrote in message
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I have a Panasonic Viera Freesat TV and am thinking of getting a Blue
ray/HD recorder.

Thinking about getting the Panasonic DMR-BS850. Anyone got one? Good
choice?


A big variation in price!
http://www.google.co.uk/products/cat...d=0CDsQ8wIwAg#
Regards
David

On Nov 12, 12:47*pm, "David" wrote:
"Geoff Berrow" wrote in message

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I have a Panasonic Viera Freesat TV and am thinking of getting a Blue
ray/HD recorder.

Thinking about getting the Panasonic DMR-BS850. *Anyone got one? *Good
choice?

A big variation in price!http://www.google.co.uk/products/cat...w=1&biw=1651&b...
Regards
David

remove the word 'price' from the search and there are more and indeed
cheaper listings.

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:56:30 -0800 (PST), Dr Hfuhruhurr
wrote:

A big variation in price!http://www.google.co.uk/products/cat...w=1&biw=1651&b...
Regards
David

remove the word 'price' from the search and there are more and indeed
cheaper listings.

Argos have it at £425, but have no stock!
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"Mike Henry" wrote in message
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Who is responsible for that outrage?

Hollywood studios principally.

Panasonic, ITV, Freesat or a cartel
of them all? It's a Free To Air ie unencrypted broadcast, and someone is
preventing me from making a copy? Seriously?

I will only buy a Blu-Ray recorder if it does not have such a restriction.

They all have DRM :-((

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

but at least they did not have the same disgraceful region system that
spoiled DVDs.

In article ,
R. Mark Clayton wrote:

I will only buy a Blu-Ray recorder if it does not have such a restriction.

They all have DRM :-((

It will be interesting to see what happens now that the HDCP master
key has been discovered.

-- Richard

On Friday, November 12th, 2010 at 14:23:47h +0000, R. Mark Clayton wrote:

but at least they did not have the same disgraceful region system that
spoiled DVDs.

But there are Blu-ray regions -- A, B, and C

http://www.pctechguide.com/38Blu-rayRegionCodes.htm

Well I'm not going to talk models, but I seem to be getting people saying
that all these recorderhave problems of life expectancy, being about 18
months to two years. I'd have thought they would have had this sorted by now
myself.

Brian

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"Geoff Berrow" wrote in message
...
I have a Panasonic Viera Freesat TV and am thinking of getting a Blue
ray/HD recorder.

Thinking about getting the Panasonic DMR-BS850. Anyone got one? Good
choice?

--
Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email)
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker

Mike Henry wrote:
In , "David"
wrote:


"Geoff Berrow" wrote in message
...
I have a Panasonic Viera Freesat TV and am thinking of getting a Blue
ray/HD recorder.

Thinking about getting the Panasonic DMR-BS850. Anyone got one? Good
choice?

A big variation in price!
http://www.google.co.uk/products/cat...d=0CDsQ8wIwAg#

From that page -"quite a few programmes, particularly on ITV HD are
copyright protected and can only be copied to BD or DVD disc in SD."

Who is responsible for that outrage? Panasonic, ITV, Freesat or a cartel
of them all? It's a Free To Air ie unencrypted broadcast, and someone is
preventing me from making a copy? Seriously?

I will only buy a Blu-Ray recorder if it does not have such a restriction.

It may be possible to use a PC Media Centre with HD
tuner and Blu-Ray burner, depending on which
applications you were using.

"Jim" wrote in message
o.uk...
Mike Henry wrote:
In , "David"
wrote:


"Geoff Berrow" wrote in message
...
I have a Panasonic Viera Freesat TV and am thinking of getting a Blue
ray/HD recorder.

Thinking about getting the Panasonic DMR-BS850. Anyone got one? Good
choice?

A big variation in price!
http://www.google.co.uk/products/cat...d=0CDsQ8wIwAg#

From that page -"quite a few programmes, particularly on ITV HD are
copyright protected and can only be copied to BD or DVD disc in SD."

Who is responsible for that outrage? Panasonic, ITV, Freesat or a cartel
of them all? It's a Free To Air ie unencrypted broadcast, and someone is
preventing me from making a copy? Seriously?

Seriously, its part of the HDMI standard. See:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-ba...ent_Protection




I will only buy a Blu-Ray recorder if it does not have such a
restriction.

It may be possible to use a PC Media Centre with HD tuner and Blu-Ray
burner, depending on which applications you were using.