Panasonic DVD/RAM Recorder/digibox - Currys -£155 inc Del

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joemack wrote:

Hi Gizmoleeds.
First of all thanks for your help,as you can tell I know nothing about DVD recorders. Anyway can you only record with DVD-RAM discs, or can you use other types with this machine, if so what types. Do you think it will be better to spend a bit more and get one with a hard drive. All you comments are welcome.

It depends on what you want in a machine. I have had this dilemma. Yes - a hard drive machine is more useful if you want to record a lot of TV and burn your programs and/or want to edit your recordings and burn the results to a DVD. However, if you want Freeview then hard disk recording freeview machines are very expensive at the moment. On balance I wanted Freeview and didn't want to spend too much... as I don't watch much TV. Having Freeview means I managed to get rid of 3 remote controls as I no longer need a DVD player, VCR and Freeview box. The Panasonic ES20 remote can even be programmed to operate the TV (basic functions - volume, standby and channel change) hence getting it down to 1 remote control. The other advantage of Freeview is that you can set recordings direct from the EPG 7 day prgram guide by just pressing 'Enter' on the program you want to record.

Richer Sounds have the ES10 (without freeview) for £109.95 and the ES20 for £139.95). The multiregion is £159.95 but I am going in to try to get them to price match https://www.prcdirect.co.uk.

joemack

Hi I went to Richer Sounds today and bought the ES10 for 129.00 its multi region.I have had some success in setting it up. Can you tell me the way I should connect my video-sky-dvd-and tv with scart leads only I think I have not got them quite right and I would like to check them. I dont have any normal tv now its all in digital, some on AV1 and some on AV2 and it has not set up my TV channels, but it plays discs ok. I think thats enough for now.

dc

Currys instore price is now £169, online £159.

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1046726267.1140738647@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccladdhdjjgjedcflgceggdhhmdfhm.0&page=Product&fm=6&sm=1&tm=undefined&sku=355701&category_oid=-25995

Hope you finally got sorted Searcher2, it wasn't on the PRC website last night

dc

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dc wrote:

Currys instore price is now £169, online £159.

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1046726267.1140738647@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccladdhdjjgjedcflgceggdhhmdfhm.0&page=Product&fm=6&sm=1&tm=undefined&sku=355701&category_oid=-25995

Hope you finally got sorted Searcher2, it wasn't on the PRC website last night

dc

Nope - Richer sounds wouldn't honour their own Price Beat promise. PRCDirect still have it (multiregion version) on their website for £156.89 inc delivery and 4 DVD-RAM disks. https://www.123electricals4me.co.uk will price match them and have great customer service. Currys charge delivery but there are voucher codes around to give you 5% off - the advantage being it's easier to return the product if it is faulty (like mine is!).

Jeff121

Also priced at £169.99 in Argos

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/zone/flyer01Zone/partNumber/5334939/Trail/zone%3Dflyer01Zone.Spring+Price+Drops%3EC%24cip%3D39464.Sound%2Band%2Bvision%3EC%24Brand%3DPanasonic.Panasonic.htm

TOMCAT_3

Tesco now has these at £179 and my local richer sounds is out of stock. Does anyone know if there is anywhere in the north east (tyne and wear) area doing them for £110.

Searcher2

TOMCAT wrote:

Tesco now has these at £179 and my local richer sounds is out of stock. Does anyone know if there is anywhere in the north east (tyne and wear) area doing them for £110.

You are referring to the ES10 for £109.95 I think. How about considering the ES20 for £139.95 from Richer Sounds which gives you Freeview EPG recording.. maybe you don't need Freeview but I think it is worth the extra £30 - makes recording much easier. Or £149.99 delivered by the excellent https://www.123electrical4me.co.uk.

koru

gizmoleeds wrote:

They don't have hard drives. You would get 16 hours recording capacity on a 9.4GB DVD.

Personally this doesn't bother me - with DVD-RAM disks you can do your nifty timeslip thing so I don't really see the need for a DVD-HDD machine.

Don't be misled by this claim by Currys. You can only get 16 hours onto one disk if it is double sided. You have to eject it and flip it over to use the second side, so you can't go on holiday for a week and leave it set to record 16 hours of programmes.

The most you could do is 8 hours, and even then only if you use maximum compression. Personally, I found the picture quality to be unacceptable on this setting, so in practice the most I can record without being home to switch disks is 4 hours.

tooconfused_2

Richer sounds will match the price and beat it by ten pounds it has to be in stock at the place they price match though.I bought the Multi region from richer sounds for £146

svijay

I picked up two from John Lewis, pricematched to Richer Sounds at £139.95