Panasonic DMR-EH55S DVD Recorder
| Panasonic DMR-EH55S DVD Recorder with 200 GB Hard Drive, HDMI, SD Card, and DV Input |
Manufacturer: Panasonic
UPC:
037988253753 Retail Price: $499.99 Avg. Rating:
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 "DVR with a bang!" | 2008-08-25 |
| - Reviewed By User: A8L3CQ598NYIE |
| Love it ! This has a great tv-guide feature but the only draw back is it only goes a week in advance. so if you go on a 2 week vacation you may miss a thing or two. You can make your recordings daily,weekly,or monthly which I thought was a nice feature! You can edit anything you record so if you record a show or movie you can edit the commercials out! I found the best way if you are particular like me you can pause it just before the commercial or after then rewind or forward (in pause) to a black screen to start or end your edit! This took me a few tries before they were faded well. Then of course you can put it on a dvd! The best feature is you can record anything then edit it or not, then put it on a dvd for a friend or your collection! All in all this is a great item! |
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| "It's great for volume recording" | 2008-07-25 |
| - Reviewed By toddizok |
I've been a fan of DVD-RAMs for 4 yrs. I have hundreds of them and record hrs ea. day. I haven't had a failed recording nor problem of any kind. 4 yrs of disks and no failures is something I can live with. Panasonics are the main DVD-RAM recorders available.
Thus my interest in this discontinued product.
If you view video recording as a disposable medium, you'll love the DMR-EH55. I record hrs while I'm at work, then can easily edit titles. I mainly work with my own video recorder titles and cable TV recordings. If I want to eliminate commercials or edit my own video, DVD-RAM or HDD recording works great.
I can't argue with those who want the highest video quality and aren't happy with this recorder. But for an easy to use, program, and review videos product, this one is excellent. TV Guide Online gives me more program listings than my cable company's deficient Onscreen Guide which barely exceeds 24 hrs of program listings.
This year I've returned three modern Panaonic DVD recorders before I got this older model. It seemed as if Panasonic fired all there good programmers. The newer models were complete crap compared to this model- no unusual delays, no buggy operations. This recorder is the real deal for me.
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 "Panasonic DMR-EH55S DVD Recorder with 200 GB Hard Drive" | 2008-02-25 |
| - Reviewed By kinseypi |
This is a great product, but it does have a few glitches.
I love the huge hard drive, no worrying if you have enough space on the dvd/disc for recording all your shows.
Easy to set up for recording if you set it to download the programming from your provider.
Mine makes an error on my channel lineup, it downloads the wrong channel for my location. I get details for a shopping channel not the actual available programming, but this, luckily is a channel I don't watch.
Also several channels are downloaded with times from the wrong time zone, rebooting or clearing and downloading programming again does not correct the problem. This is frustrating as setting up a timed recording is more time consuming to do than just clicking on the show in the line up.
My cable box shows the correct lineup and times of shows.
It also occasionally will record the wrong channel. Two minutes before recording starts the system selects the channel it will record, then again as it starts recording it will reselect the channel. Many times at this second selection it chooses the wrong channel ( 2 instead of 12 for example). This can be frustrating. It cannot be the infra red you set by the cable box being in the wrong location or it would not have selected the correct channel first time around. You see the correct channel momentarily, then it changes to the wrong one.
Sometimes, it just does not to record the show at all, and gives an error message of "Recording was stopped by the system. Reason: Error has occured / stopped recording".
This recording of the wrong channel and / or no recording has been very frustrating at times.
Overall, I do like the item. |
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| "DVD movies and TV are a whole new experience." | 2008-02-01 |
| - Reviewed By floridabook |
| Easy to setup. Easy to use. Reduced my cable bill by $27.00 a month. And to top it off, when used when an HDMI cable to your HDTV, it upscales to 1080i. You'll notice things in movies you never noticed before. And the audio output is second to none. DVD movies and TV are a whole new experience. Well worth the money. I'm extremely happy with the DMR-EH55. There's not a better unit out there. In fact I own 2 of them. |
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| "DMR E55H" | 2007-12-05 |
| - Reviewed By arringtonb |
| I was successful in downloading the TV Guide, although last minute broadcasting changes will not be updated. You must use input 3 and have the dvd recorder parameters set-up for your satellite box. No, you cannot use HD receivers but I was able to connect with a standard DirecTV TiVo unit. I also have the DMR E55H controlling the channels on my DirecTV TiVo unit from the scheduling as well as direct channel access. The TiVO unit must remain on at all times! |
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 "When it works, it's great however..." | 2007-11-25 |
| - Reviewed By pegletb |
I bought this unit a year ago to replace the panasonic DMRE85HS - which froze up after two years of use.
When it works, I really like it. However it is really really annoying when it decides not to record a program - about 10-15% of the time.
I check to make sure the system is setup to record a program, however it will record 5 seconds and then stop. This is true for both recordings selected using the TV guide, and programs manually setup to record on a particular channel at a predetermined time.
This leads to disappointments once or twice a week. Which at the $428 price I paid a year ago for this unit from Amazon, is frustrating.
I am astounded they are now asking close to $2000 for a new unit! |
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| "Why can't Panasonic offer HDD with ATSC??" | 2007-11-07 |
| - Reviewed By djvega |
Is it so hard to ask for a HD PVR? They got all the pieces out, just not together. I own the older E80H which I use as a PVR, a free TIVO if you will. Except this is NTSC only (standard analog), which works fine. However I had a nicer HDTV now like many do and I have plenty of HD content available with the addition of an HDTV antenna on my roof.
All this guy wants is a non-TIVO, non-cable, non-sat HD PVR. I don't care if they offer such a product that you can use with TIVO, cable, sat if you choose to. I don't care if they add a DVD burner or not (I've never used my DVD burner feature on my E80H), I'll pay the extra for this feature if I have to. Just make the damn thing have a HDD recording PVR type features that can do the same with HD content!!
Am I the only one? Actually I know I am not, there are plenty of folks on avsforum that want the same. Why pay 100+/mo for something that is freely available (provided you have the equipment, which is what this review is about)?
I actually have such a product from LG, its an HD PVR with a 250gig HD. Its UI blows though. Its the most gawd awful thing to figure out how to program. My panasonic E80H though is simple, logical and fun to use. Even my wife programs it! I just want the modern equivalent of the E80H! Anyone at Panasonic listening? Or are they all in bed with TIVO and the cable companies? |
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| "Comprehensive Review" | 2007-11-06 |
| - Reviewed By tthoodtt |
| This is a great product and I would definately recommend it over the new Philips recorders/dvrs that are on sale. It may cost a lot more but if you want all of the features this is a must-have! |
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| "Worth every penny" | 2007-06-18 |
| - Reviewed By athens_books_and |
I did a lot of searching for information on many DVD recorders before settling on this one last year. I'm definitely not disappointed. I read a lot of reviews of other products of people having endless nightmares with extremely complicated and/or poorly made machines, and it looked like this one was going to be very durable and relatively simple to use compared to other recorders.
It was a bit of a pain learning to navigate my way around all the different menu's but that's to be expected from a product that has so many features, and almost everything is done in as simple a way as possible so even the technically challenged can use it. The easy set up guide left out a few things that could have been included like the fact that extra long play programs only could be copied to DVD in real time, but with long play, high speed mode can be used (4 hours of program copies in about 15 minutes). Also it took me a while to figure out some very basic stuff like the importance of having the drive select in the right mode before doing various things.
It's really nice when having programmed recordings not to not have to have the cable box or DVD recorder on the right channel, not have to have worry about whether the DVD recorder is on or off, whether there's a tape or disk in, whether it's going to record over something else, etc. Also it's nice to have the option of watching something once off the hard drive then deleting it, or copying it to a disk, and nice to be able to watch something on the hard drive while something else is recording. The tv guide feature is great, it didn't work for while, but it's been working for a good while now, so I think that was a problem with the cable company and not the DVD recorder. There are no complaints with the picture quality on the hard drive and on recorded DVD's (in long play). I'm not sure why Amazon hasn't had this product available, maybe they will soon. I had to buy mine somewhere else.
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 "How to record and playback widescreen(16:9)?" | 2007-05-23 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2DN7ADR9M5H5K |
No matter what I do,I cannot get this unit to record or playback widescreen.I have a Comcast Cable box and I used the cable box to DVR to TV hookup.Panasonic tech,well just forget it!I used all RCA cables (red,white,yellow) for hookup.When I try to record a HD program I get black bars all around the screen.And yes my hi-speed record feature is off.The only way I have ever gotten WS is by using the TV fill/zoom feature.Anybody w/any ideas?
Bob T.
Greensburg,Pa |
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