Panasonic DMR E85H Review

Here's a Panasonic DMR E85H review of the recorder that has been in stores since April 13, 2004. Includes features comparisons to competition and pointers on value for money.

The DMR E85H is a HDD DVD recorder, with a sizeable hard drive at 120GBs. You can use the hard drive in many ways similarly to a hard drive in computers.

Combined with DVD-RAM technology, you can, for example, watch from the beginning of a recorded program whose recording is still in progress.

To make programming the recorder as easy as possible, the DMR E85H has an electronic program guide, TV Guide On Screen.

Panasonic DMR E85H Review - Features

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In addition to being a great HDD/DVD recorder unit, this is also a flexible DVD player, with progressive scan.

The DMR E85H has support for DVDs, CDs, and MP3 discs, as well as high-resolution DVD-Audio discs.

The DVD-Audio is the next generation audio format, with quality far surpassing that found on standard commercial CDs.

Other features include:

* 32x high-speed recording from hard drive to DVD-R* 24x high-speed recording from hard disk to RAM* Playback support for DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, VCD, music CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, and MP3 CDs* Recording formats: DVD-RAM, DVD-R* 3 video outputs (composite-, component-, and S-video)* Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound output

Panasonic DMR E85H Review - Competition

Competitive offers with similar features include:

* Toshiba RS-TX20 (available in stores since September 22, 2004)* JVC DR-MX1S (available in stores since July 1, 2004)

The Toshiba RS-TX20 also has a 120 GB HDD unit, and records to DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM discs. Features in the RS-TX20 include a free basic TiVo service.

Meanwhile, the JVC DR-MX1S is an all-in-one DVD recorder/VCR/HDD package. The size of the HDD unit is 80GB.


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