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Panasonic DMR-HS2
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Average Ratings for Panasonic DMR-HS2

  • Image Quality4.5 stars
  • Sound Quality4 stars
  • Features4 stars
  • Ease of Use3.5 stars
  • Value for Money3.5 stars
  • Reviewer Ratings3.4 stars
  • Overall Rating3.7 stars

5 Reviews For Panasonic DMR-HS2

  • Anthrakas Rank: Corporal 30th Oct 2005

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    Good Points: Wide array of features, DvD-ram compatible, External link that works with SKY and Decoders


    Bad Points: Remote control a bit slow, menu a bit slow, does not support DVD+- RW, authoring a DVD.


    General comments: I bought the Panasonic DMR-HS2 last year to tape the Olympics and never looked back since, it replaces the VCR completely plus gives more than ever imagined.

    Setup:
    Easy, it plugs to TV via a scart then you stick the Sky box. With 4 av ports, I use it with Sky and VCR, It might be a bit spaghetti incident behind the tv stand but that's what you get with many boxes.

    Best use:
    With Ext Link on AV2 it will auto record all auto view programs on Sky, so no Sky Plus is needed. It will also record on manual mode what you see on screen, very useful if you record from interactive services, like I was during the Olympics.
    Even with the small HD space I never run out of space on the HDD, I dub the contents or watch them about once a month. Using LP mode you get better than VCR quality, so you will not miss that second part of what you watched last week but if you prefer to keep a movie then SP is better.

    One bug found:
    Only bug I found is that it looses the picture on the second program it records if it is exactly after the one recorded first. I think it takes time to recycle the auto view.

    Authoring what you recorded, you need time to edit the titles with the use of the remote control, something that can take some time, then leave the HDD to DVD dub run real time (I do it overnight) and then finalise the dvd in the morning.

    Not the best but I will not buy a more expensive machine than this for improved authoring.

  • lockeam Rank: Lance Corporal 2nd Mar 2004

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    I have acquired one of these new Panasonic DMR-HS2 DVD Recorders because of what they are capabe of. Being able to record my old vids and sat programmes onto a hard drive, then down to a dvd-r disc is great news.

    sure, there are many areas in which this player could be improved but it just reminds me of the first video recorders and what they meant to me when they first come out.

    expect to pay at least 500 squid for a mutli-region player right now.

  • Gilbertworld. Rank: Lance Corporal 15th May 2003

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    Okay, first things first...why did I buy this machine?

    In short I wanted a DVD recorder for several reasons, mainly:
    Archive of videos (home and VHS only titles)
    To get top quality recordings (what's the point of recording Sky digital onto VHS?)
    To edit and create my own compilation DVDs (Simpsons, Cold Feet etc)
    So does it do all this? YES...and some!!
    Brief look at the Features:
    DVD-R
    DVD-RAM
    Timeslip
    DV in
    RGB in & out
    1 hour on 4.7GB at XP
    2 hrs at SP
    4 hrs at LP
    6 hrs at EP ...

  • thunderstorm. 24th Mar 2003

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    A very good but expensive way to put the VHS away.
    that's what I awaited for a long day.
    40GB Harddisk is enough to put a lot of things on it. Whatever I want to have in future, writing DVD-Ram or when collegues want to watch it too put it on DVD-R.
    JUST GREAT!

  • jenko. Rank: Lance Corporal 10th Mar 2003

    Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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    This machine Panasonic DMR-HS2 has a HDD and DVD drive/recorder built in.
    The recording sequence is to record your information to the HDD and if required burn it to the DVD disc.
    Works great from free to air information but the above sequence does NOT work when recording from DVD movies because of the built in Macrovision protection. This short fall makes it one very expensive machine to record TV shows.

Product details

Built-in 40 GB hard drive, IEEE 1394 digital video inputHybrid VBR (variable bit rate) technology lets you record up to 6 hours on a single-sided DVD-RAM discTime Slip lets you watch from the beginnin more details...