Panasonic DMR-EZ48 , Integrated VCR, Upscaling DVD Recorder Reviews

+ does a good job with both VHS and DVD including non-commercial ones.

- Is not a good region-free DVD player: will not decode zone 1 DVDs properly.

+ Nice black colour

- Too flipping complicated and manual is a nightmare.

+ Connection and set very easy e.g. HDMI. Gives you an opportunity to play historic Video cassettes and record onto DVD RW.

- Dated appearance.

+ everything above

- none

+ A bit larger than my old VHS but I fine compromise considering it is a 3 in 1 device (DVD, VHS & freeview box). It all so upscales normal DVDs to HD. Recording TV via the onscreen programme guide is so easy. Plenty of adjustment for recording times and modes. Does time slip recrding but I think this feature is not that useful.

- Not any, shame the hard drive version of the same product was so much more expensive.

+ Excellent recording from television/dvd to vcr/vcr to dvd.

- No volume control on remote. Instruction manual could be better designed eg.For the people who just want to watch dvd's etc & record off television there could be a simplified section with detailed simplified steps for various tasks.At the moment the details tend to be lost in technical data that a majority of people will never understand and therefore will never use.

+ does wot i need..

- little big

+ Clear picture and sound
Red button works okay

- Takes a long time to start up, and changing channels isn't instantaneous. It also makes a whiney noise while playing VHS tapes

+ Instructions easy to follow, like being able to record through the guide programme. Have not found anything I dislike at present.

- So far have not found any apart from the machine is very big compared to other dvd vcr machines. Maybe this is to do with being a combined machine.

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- dvd on off button sometimes takes a while to work. takes to long to come on i meant the recorder takes to long to set up.

+ Simplicity

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+ Easy to use and quick to respond I don't think you can beat a Panasonic.

- None

+ sets up really easy

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+ Extremely versatile, easy set up and a pleasure to use.

- None

+ Very easy to setup and use!

- A little slow to warm up from stand-by.

+ can transfer from video to disc

- im not able to understand some of the jargon

+ I bought this machine to transfer my old videos onto DVDs and it is so easy to do. Just press a button and the machine does the rest for you. Now my precious footage of my children as babies is safe on DVD.

- None that I know of

+ digital tuning, VHS and DVD with copying either way.

- the first one delivered was faulty.

+ The machine does everything I need from it - recording and playing both video and DVD, and recording one from the other.

- The manual was extremely lengthy and complicated.
The biggest disappointment was that the machine was not able to read and play DVD+RWs recorded on a different machine.

+ easy to setup and use, but most probably would benefit from having Panasonic TV as well, using one remote only

- slight noise on VHS replay

+ Good and easy recording. Easy set up. Stylish. Reliable.

- Exposed video/audio connection. Start up time but can live with that.

+ Well designed with comprehensive features. Exceelent quality picture.

- None.

+ Good sound,reasonable design.

- Instruction manual, poor quality,flimsydesign (pages falling out) should have been hard backed.
Content poor layout as you have to jump from one page to another

+ Just a good easy piece of equipment to use.

- No bad points

+ I found this very easy to set up and use, I have had Panasonic products before and have always found them to be of a superior quality to any other make I have tried

- It is a little bit noisy when recording, but I can put up with this.

+ Good picture

- Some irritatiing 'habits'.i.e.changing channells on recordfer interferes with TV settings.I cannot get a permanent setting above 2 hours on the DVD

+ Easy to copy from VHS to DVD

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+ Reasonably easy to use.

- Takes too long for the guide to come up and when programmes overrun you miss the end.The timings aren't always good.

+ Having the ability to record play tapes. Very difficult to get VCRs now

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+ easy to use

- not very clear instructions on how to use in first instant

+ so far very user friendly, and reliable.

- slow walming up when i want to tape something from tv in hurry, but suspect all dvd recorders same.and the super picture quality over my old video makes up for that

+ Tuning in easy.. Picture quality excellent. Versatility of DVD and VHS recording

- Very complex instructions and in my view certainly not easy to follow, requiring regular consultation with manual. Some of the problems were due to the "marrying" of this Freeview unit with a panasonic Freesat TV
I have notified panasonic that an addendum is neccessary to assist in matching thie 2 products i.e a recorder DMR-EZ48VEB-K to LCD TV TX-L32G10B

+ easy to set up and good picture quality

- keeps saying a new freeview service has been detected and wants to retune

+ The good points are the design, and the fact that its duel purpose and HDMI.

- The bad points are being able to get certain aspects of it to work, like getting the LP to (8hrs) to enable without setting up the timer system.

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- No sound mute button