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Panasonic DMR-E55
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Average Ratings for Panasonic DMR-E55

  • Image Quality3.9 stars
  • Sound Quality3.9 stars
  • Features3.7 stars
  • Ease of Use3.4 stars
  • Value for Money3.2 stars
  • Reviewer Ratings3 stars
  • Overall Rating3 stars

37 Reviews For Panasonic DMR-E55

  • ancona1968 4th Dec 2008

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    Good Points: Easy to use, excelent picture quality (xp and so modes), record ok on DVD-R 1x, 4x, 8x 16x, finalizing a full recorded DVD-R take 1 to 2 minutes only, full formatting of a blank DVD-RAM takes 2 minutes only.


    Bad Points: Never had a problem, maybe I miss a recorded sound control for volume or tone, but is ok.


    General comments: I have these recorder 3 years by now (buyed in Baja, M xico, 2005, made in Malasya in 2004), and recorded many DVDs (may be a hundred or more) and recorded on DVD-RAM almost daily TV programs and never experienced any trouble. I think there are some (or many?) products sold with low control quality, maybe we have to check the date of manufacture, country of origin and look for a pattern. Mine was an old product on store and a little bit expensive ($4600 pesos, $450 dollars), and was modified to be multiregion (although the box said it was region 4 only). The picture quality is excellent, and in some cases improves the source (if the source is a VCR and the connection to the recorder is by s-video cable). I allways use the recorder with a little fan on it to lowering the heat produced, and every two months I remove the case and blow up with an air can. never have a problem.

  • revieski 7th Oct 2008

    Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars


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    If your machine has failed, repeatedly going through self check - please do a search for "dvd recorder repairs" on ebay I will fix your recorder for you - Cheaply!!! - Revieski...

  • Guest 28th Sep 2008

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    It's not a bad recorder, as long as you know its not going to be a recorder after a couple of years.

  • tucky15 23rd Jun 2008

    Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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    I have taken the cover off and blow out all the dust and left the cover off and now works fine. Not sure why this is but it just has.

  • Guest 12th Jun 2008

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    Panasonic stuff is usually of excellent quality and very reliable. This is the most disappointing AV item I have ever bought. Panasonic can go jump from now on!!!!

  • Chid 26th May 2008

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    I bought a Panasonic DMR-E95HEB and after about 2 years of moderate use guess what. Self check problems like so many other people seem to have. I contacted Panasonic who gave me details of local repairer. Because out of warranty they want £55 just to look at it. When I realised that this is a common problem and hence, I believe, a manufacturing fault, I contacted Panasonic again. I got the brush off and just got told to take it in for repair. If I knew it would cost £55, or even up ...

  • oderflaus 13th May 2008

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    My Panasonic DMR-E55 had a problem reading disks, power-off, self-check problems due to defective internal power-supply board. I ordered the board from partstore.com, replaced it myself and it works GREAT!!! No problem reading/recording!

  • kevinpc 18th Feb 2008

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    The Panasonic DMR-E55 is a piece of rubbish that I couldn't recommend. Did research on the web before buying and Panasonic appears to have a reasonable reputation. This machine is painfully slow to power-up (going through all sorts of checks), slightly (not much) faster to switch off and has now (just after 15 months) given up the ghost. Unless I want to spend £99-£160 to get it repaired apparently.

  • Guest 14th Feb 2008

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    In my experience it's noisy, slow, and after too short a period of time it stops being able to read the discs; I've had it less than a few years and it's now completely useless. This has happened to at least 2 other people I know with the same machine.

  • denisdjdss 7th Feb 2008

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    Great player/recoder. I bought a second Panasonic player so I could play the RAM disk on another TV

  • amunre5 Rank: Corporal 21st Jan 2008

    Reviewer rating: 3 stars


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    Good unit as a DVD player, a decent VCR replacement, but not so great in the fact that it only will record to DVD-R or DVD-ram. (and with DVD-R once you record something you don't get the room back on the DVD if you erase it.)

  • moose hoose 2nd Jan 2008

    Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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    Really disappointing

  • Guest 26th Dec 2007

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    Had my Panasonic DMR-E55 DVD recorder for 5 years. Never a glitch, quality second to none.

  • AErskine 25th Nov 2007

    Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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    This was a relatively expensive machine and should have been much more user friendly I will never buy anything from panasonic again.

  • patmartin008 Rank: Staff Sergeant 15th Oct 2007

    Reviewer rating: 2.5 stars


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    I bought this just over three years ago after researching various models. It was one of the most expensive at the time and the solid reputation of previous Panasonic models persuaded me to part with my money.

    I haven't used it heavily since (once a month at most) yet only a month after the warranty expired it started to power on then after a few seconds switch itself off.

    I've since researched this on the net and found many others with the same fault. Apparently it's due to a faulty resist ...

  • dismayedscot 19th Sep 2007

    Reviewer rating: 0.5 stars


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    Bought machine August 2004 but did not use machine often.
    Few months ago it starts being unable to read discs it can now not be used because it goes into a cycle - self check - read - switch off - self- and so on. Fault has been diagnosed as needing new RAM drive{repair cost £230). Panasonic think that it should be accepted that components should fail within a 3 year time scale. I disagree and wonder how Panasonic can have a reputation for reliability if they accept this.

  • deelee 10th Sep 2007

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    Use my Panasonic DMR-E55 daily and like it.

  • KevinJ 18th Aug 2007

    Reviewer rating: 0.5 stars


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    If you get a good Panasonic DMR-E55 then fine you can unsympathetically wonder what all the fuss is about, but if you are one of the many people who seem to have bought a dud then unless you have paid for an extended warranty (mine worked OK for a year although I did lose a couple of discs which I foolishly put down to the discs having a glitch) then you might as well just use it as a player or a door stop. That's if you can get the recordable disc out of it without smashing it (even pulling the ...

  • Bilko47 4th Aug 2007

    Reviewer rating: 3 stars


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    After two years of ownership my Panasonic DMR-E55 will not accept blank DVD-R discs but still accepts DVD-RAM OK, but makes a rumbling noise. Do all electronics have a time chip in them that makes them go wrong after two years? It seems to me everything electrical I have owned fails after two years.

  • Hes88 13th Apr 2007

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    Don't buy it, buy one with a hard disc.