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Panasonic DMR-EX773EBK 160GB HDD DVD Recorder with Freeview+ |  | Brand: Panasonic
Category: CE
List Price: £283.54
Buy New: £215.00
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New (9) from £215.00
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 291
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.7
Dimensions (in): 21.1 x 14.7 x 6.5
MPN: DMR-EX773EBK
Model: DMR-EX773EBK
EAN: 5025232543045
Release Date: March 1, 2010
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| Features:
| • | DVD Recorder with 160GB HDD | | • | Freeview+ Tuner | | • | 1080p Up-Conversion | | • | SD Memory Card Slot | | • | 59mm x 430mm x 286mm |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 9
 Sending it back August 30, 2010
A. Wardle (Sheffield)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
May be we are doing something wrong, but we were told that this unit will record two programs at the same time. Ours won't. It won't even let you watch another channel while recording! Surely this can't be right. We will be packing it up and sending it back. I've never read such a complicated manuel in my life!
 Panansonic DMR-EX773EBK HDD freeviw with recorder August 17, 2010
rogers
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The machine is over complicated and takes a great deal of patience to work successfully the link between a Panansonic TV and theViera link.
The accompanying hand book is asmug mess and adds greatly to the confusion.
The machine however works well once you get through the Mine Field
 Pretty good August 2, 2010
jonskin
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've had this recorder for 10 days and am pretty pleased with it. It is unlikely we will use the DVD side for more than
playback which seems to have all the essential features for photos, music (CDs) and prerecorded DVD films.
Main useage is the PVR side, largely TV guide recording (EPG). The ease of use for this is good, and I just ignore
the ads on the guide which seem to exercise other people - so they aren't achieving much, are they?!!!
One worry, however, is the ocurrance (twice) of the U80 error message. Turning off / on does correct this, but why does a brand
new unit throw errors? I have googled this and see that it is quite common, but without satifactory explanation.
One other irritation when recording from the TV guide yesterday it missed the first 10 minutes of Sherlock before starting up.
I don't know why.
Good results, but a few irritations July 9, 2010
S. J. Ware (Essex, UK)
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
I bought this to replace a Sony recorder which had no Freeview, and because a recently bought Panasonic TV seemed to have much better reception in our marginal area than the (very expensive) Sony set-top box.
It's grindingly slow in pretty much everything it does, but it produces much better pictures than the (5+ years old) Sony. If you record in highest quality to the hard drive, when you copy to your DVD, if it doesn't fit, instead of choosing an arbtirary recording mode (SP 2 hours, LP 3 hours etc) it compresses your files just enough to fit exactly onto the disc ("flexible recording") so you always get the best possible pictures. The algorithms are much improved too: I squeezed the whole of "Reds", a film lasting well over 3 hours, on to a single DVD-R and there wasn't a trace of mpeg2 artifact.
Reception a definite improvement on the old STB.
Pause live TV excellent.
There are a few personal irritations most of which are pretty trivial and relate to the software.
Slow reaction to every button press I have already mentioned, advertising panel on program guide noted by others.
No intelligent chaptering! Hasn't this been standard for ages?
Be careful with weekly timer recordings - it can't cope with these unless they start at the same time each week.
Listing recordings on the hard drive: poor selection of information. Tells you to the nearest minute when each recording was made, and even the day of the week, but no duration or size of the file. (Actually, I don't think the word "Gigbytes" apprears in any menu or display).
Every time you make the list or return to the listing screen after doing something, it insists on playing the currently selected recording in a little window, including sound, from the beginning. In an unedited recording this is usually a bit of banal dialogue from a BBC employee and becomes excruciatingly irritating when heard for the 20th time. (If it won't let you switch this off, at least put a TV mute button on the remote!)
Editing: I spend quite a lot of time removing adverts and think I will grow to like the available buttons (which include chapter +/-5mins; buttons for +1min and -10 secs; "joystick" for frame-by-frame) but remote design could be improved: the buttons are all different sizes and arbitrarily placed. When doing a repetitive job like this you don't want to have to keep looking at your fingers.
Can't do anything else when copying. I don't know if it would be possible to release the freeview tuner just by revising the software.
If you set the machine to switch itself off after copying, it will crash, and you will have to disconnect the power and reboot. As a matter of fact it has minor crashes from time to time which together with the slow response times (and a few other trivial irritations and malfunctions which I can't remember) suggests that the software is pretty ropey, possibly because it's new. No software updates yet, but when these arrive they should make this fine machine even better.
Panasonic DVD HD Recorder June 11, 2010
Derek Collins (UK)
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
Having previously owned a Panasonic DVD Recorder I found the product was easy to set up and run. Sometimes when you press some of the keys on the remote control there is a slight pause before it activates but you soon get used to this. I have now tried recording to the Hard Drive, Timer recording and transfering to DVD and finalising and it all seem to work well. Previous reviews have critised the advert window in the program guide but I personally did not find this is a problem. I can therefore recommend this productPanasonic DMR-EX773EBK 160GB HDD DVD Recorder with Freeview+
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