Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10464 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Panasonic
• Model: DMR-EX95VEBS
• Released on: 2007-05-07

Manufacturer's Description
If future proofing is important in selecting your DVD recorder but a collection of cherished VHS tapes adorns the living room, then the DMR-EX95V from Panasonic will be sure to satisfy. This unit combines DVD, HDD and VHS recording and playback in one unit, as well as transfer to and from SD.

Go Digital;An integrated Freeview recorder is an increasingly popular choice for those wanting to upgrade to digital, and benefit from up to an additional 40 TV and 24 radio channels . The DIGA DMR-EX95V also has an analogue tuner, rising to the challenge of accommodating both consumers who have adequate Digital Broadcast reception and those who are yet to gear up for strong enough reception.

Built in Hard Disk Drive;The DMR-EX95V has a 250GB drive and is capable of recording a massive 443 hours of footage and it?s not just TV content that you are able to store. It has an SD card slot and JPEG digital photos can also transfer to the hard drive for convenient storage and easy viewing.

Instant Power to Get Recording;The DMR-EX95V adds another technology to the armoury of ease-of-use functions with Quick Start and Record . Many DVD recorders take 20 or more valuable seconds to power-up and start recording.

VHS Refresh dubbing to DVD;DMR-EX95V is a great tool for VHS archiving, not only can precious footage be archived on DVD, but you can actually improve the picture quality of your old VHS recording during archiving! The ?VHS Refresh Dubbing? feature utilises two technologies that literally ?clean-up? the signal from the VHS tape. The Time Based Corrector reduces the jitter commonly found on ageing VHS recordings whilst the 3D DNR technology detects and eliminates randomly generated noise and colour irregularities. Now VHS recorded memories can not only be saved onto DVD, but images are improved for future enjoyment.

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Customer Reviews

Versatile but complicated
After many hours of frustration I finally managed to get my Loewe Planus TV, Panasonic satellite receiver and this Panasonic DMR-EX95 DVD/VHS/HD recorder to work together. The wiring-up diagram in the manual didn't work and was different from that suggested by the Panasonic satellite receiver's manual! I also have the Panasonic DMR75V DVD/VHS recorder so am familiar with many of the functions, but I still found the plethora of features daunting. I'm sure I'll never use many of them.

Good points: having an all-in-one box to play and record video tapes, DVDs and lots of hours on the Hard Drive. Also helpful is the automatic starting of commercial DVDs and videos so you don't have to fiddle around to find the correct drive. The handset has bigger and easier to read numerals on the buttons and there's more use of coloured buttons.

Bad points: the awe-inspiring complexity of the features; the difficulty in seeing the status lights on the front of the machine, for example, the display on the device to tell one which drive is operating is very small and unreadable at a few feet of distance. The only way is to recognize that the tiny blue image means the Hard Drive; orange the VHS; red the DVD and yellow the SD function. I can barely tell the difference, at a distance, between the DVD and VHS display. On the DMR75 there is a button for DVD and a button for VHS. It would be much better to have four buttons on the handset for this DMR-EX95 rather than having to decipher at a distance which colour is displayed. I wonder about people who are colour blind.

I'm sure that in a few weeks I'll be happier with the machine, but it's an up-hill battle.

Here are a few tips I've discovered subsequent to the review above: If you're wanting to use the Sky Planner facility with External Link, you can only watch something recorded on the same drive as the proposed recording and you can't watch a video if you want to record on a DVD or the HD. The way round this is to select the programmes in the Sky Planner, in order to switch on the corrects channels, and then using the timer programme facility on the recorder type in the satellite channel (eg SAT06) as the channel to be recorded for each programme and type in the date, start and stop times and the choice of drive for each programme separately. (A good thing about the recorder is you don't then have to remember to press a timer button.) With this, albeit rather cumbersome method, you can record on one drive and view on another and also record a sequence of different satellite channels with the Sky Planner doing the switching as the recorder can't do this.

Brilliant piece of kit
Have had this a week now and think it's absolutely brilliant - Easy to set up and he instructions not at all difficult to follow - Just what I wanted

Something to be aware of
I bought this item just over a month a go as an anniversary present for my parents.

After they had unwrapped it at a family gathering I plugged it all in etc but got a message of 'HDDERR' and the DVD just opened. Thats the sum total of my experience!!! Totally embarassing.

I researched this very carefully but had not heard of such problems but when I went surfing again, a couple of similar things cropped up with reference to the Samsung HDD disk being temperamental.

I didn't buy it from Amazon but a company called Cheap Telly (yes, the name does rather sound iffy in hindsight). Apparently, according to Panasonic, you have got 28 days from their despatch date (not delivery date)in which you would get the unit replaced. Even thought I didn't plug it in until the 28 days had passed they are now saying that I will have to take the unit for 'repair'. It's outrageous!!! My parents surprise was completely ruined and they add insult with this.

I'm still negotiating with Cheap Telly but for the price I paid (still over £400)And because of the name of Panasonic, I expected much better things. Amazon are usually excellent in this respect from my own experience so you should have better service if you buy from them

Others here have enjoyed the unit so it may well be worth purchasing. Just beware and make sure that you check yours as early as possible as the customer service from Panasonic isn't really what you would hope for.