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Anyone here have one, which one do you have and would you recommend?
I'm deciding between the philips or panasonic formats. Pioneer is too expensive and restrictive for the moment
Originally posted by mickl
Anyone here have one, which one do you have and would you recommend?
I'm deciding between the philips or panasonic formats. Pioneer is too expensive and restrictive for the moment
Pioneer might be expensive, but its best for performance, quality and compatability - its also the format most likely to suvive as its a 4 year user base overseas....
If you want a format thats on its one, the least flexable, unlikely to survive (hence the extreme price reductions in the past 6 months) go for the philips...
if you want a good alrounder, thats easy to use with half decent quality, go for the new Panasonic DMRE30EBS. Otherwise save up and buy the pioneer, which incidently outperforms most sub £300 standalone DVD players for quality also!
And before anyone flames me, I`ve owned all 3 machines, and stuck with the Pioneer (and a lot of forum members have the same machine!).
for the pioneers discs to be compatible with standalone players you are only allowed a max 2hrs recording on them. Is this correct??
Originally posted by mickl
for the pioneers discs to be compatible with standalone players you are only allowed a max 2hrs recording on them. Is this correct??
They must be recorded in video mode, for compatability with most machines. Like to see ya play a DVD ram in anything other then a Pana LA90 or XV10 :)
the Panny will record up to 6hrs on DVD-Rs with compatiblity for most machines (so I've heard).
A compromise as they are write once only disks but at the price they are at present, worth it.
Originally posted by mickl
the Panny will record up to 6hrs on DVD-Rs with compatiblity for most machines (so I've heard).
If you record 6 hours on a panasonic you will be lucky if the quality is as good as vhs, which to me is pointless.
4hours is just a bit better than vhs
2 hours is obviously the best quality
I went for the pioneer and wouldn't swap it for any of the other machines. It looks the business and the quality is spot on.
Originally posted by mickl
the Panny will record up to 6hrs on DVD-Rs with compatiblity for most machines (so I've heard).
A compromise as they are write once only disks but at the price they are at present, worth it.
Remember the Pioneer records onto DVD-R also, but more machines support DVD-RW playback in Video mode then any of the other formats (not just Pioneer models).
are you doing any deals on a Pioneer then?
I'd love one but it's justifying the additional cost over the other formats
I would go for the DMR-E20 (Even though the E30 is out in Japan) just becuase of it's Time Slip feature which allows playback whilst recording.
They have had good reviews too.
Can the Pioneer (or any of the others) be made multi-region? Rather important when a fair chunk of my DVD collection is R1 or 4.
Originally posted by Justin
If you want a format thats on its one, the least flexable, unlikely to survive (hence the extreme price reductions in the past 6 months) go for the philips...
In your opinion is this the same for a stand alone DVD recorder that is not used in a PC. I have no idea of the technology and see that at comet the phillips has some good features, but if this is likely to go the same way I wont bother because it is a lot of money.
Any advice ?
Thanks
Posted by waggett
Can the Pioneer (or any of the others) be made multi-region? Rather important when a fair chunk of my DVD collection is R1 or 4.
I have the Philips DVDR980 which is made multi-region by using the One-for-all 6 codes (i.e a simple remote hack). I was really chuffed with how effective the procedure was because now it even spins RCE titles without any problems.
I appreciate that other people have their own views on which models are the most flexible, but I've not had any trouble playing back DVD+RW's on other machines (they don't have to be finalised either). It has RGB in aswell which is a bit of a godsend and my only real complaint is that the longest recording modes (3 & 4hrs) aren't half as good as the other two (which are both superb). Otherwise I can't understand what anyone would have against the Philips models.
Originally posted by Tony Keats
Otherwise I can't understand what anyone would have against the Philips models.
It's the cost of the blank media (around £3.50 - £4.00) compared to DVD-R/RW (under £1.00),
& with the new Panasonic DMR-E30 being officially announced at £550, it doesn't make the Phillips look much of a bargain.
any links/info to the Panasonic DMR-E30 ?
I'm deciding between the philips or panasonic formats. Pioneer is too expensive and restrictive for the moment
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Originally posted by mickl
Anyone here have one, which one do you have and would you recommend?
I'm deciding between the philips or panasonic formats. Pioneer is too expensive and restrictive for the moment
Pioneer might be expensive, but its best for performance, quality and compatability - its also the format most likely to suvive as its a 4 year user base overseas....
If you want a format thats on its one, the least flexable, unlikely to survive (hence the extreme price reductions in the past 6 months) go for the philips...
if you want a good alrounder, thats easy to use with half decent quality, go for the new Panasonic DMRE30EBS. Otherwise save up and buy the pioneer, which incidently outperforms most sub £300 standalone DVD players for quality also!
And before anyone flames me, I`ve owned all 3 machines, and stuck with the Pioneer (and a lot of forum members have the same machine!).
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for the pioneers discs to be compatible with standalone players you are only allowed a max 2hrs recording on them. Is this correct??
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Originally posted by mickl
for the pioneers discs to be compatible with standalone players you are only allowed a max 2hrs recording on them. Is this correct??
They must be recorded in video mode, for compatability with most machines. Like to see ya play a DVD ram in anything other then a Pana LA90 or XV10 :)
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the Panny will record up to 6hrs on DVD-Rs with compatiblity for most machines (so I've heard).
A compromise as they are write once only disks but at the price they are at present, worth it.
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Originally posted by mickl
the Panny will record up to 6hrs on DVD-Rs with compatiblity for most machines (so I've heard).
If you record 6 hours on a panasonic you will be lucky if the quality is as good as vhs, which to me is pointless.
4hours is just a bit better than vhs
2 hours is obviously the best quality
I went for the pioneer and wouldn't swap it for any of the other machines. It looks the business and the quality is spot on.
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Originally posted by mickl
the Panny will record up to 6hrs on DVD-Rs with compatiblity for most machines (so I've heard).
A compromise as they are write once only disks but at the price they are at present, worth it.
Remember the Pioneer records onto DVD-R also, but more machines support DVD-RW playback in Video mode then any of the other formats (not just Pioneer models).
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are you doing any deals on a Pioneer then?
I'd love one but it's justifying the additional cost over the other formats
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I would go for the DMR-E20 (Even though the E30 is out in Japan) just becuase of it's Time Slip feature which allows playback whilst recording.
They have had good reviews too.
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Can the Pioneer (or any of the others) be made multi-region? Rather important when a fair chunk of my DVD collection is R1 or 4.
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Originally posted by Justin
If you want a format thats on its one, the least flexable, unlikely to survive (hence the extreme price reductions in the past 6 months) go for the philips...
In your opinion is this the same for a stand alone DVD recorder that is not used in a PC. I have no idea of the technology and see that at comet the phillips has some good features, but if this is likely to go the same way I wont bother because it is a lot of money.
Any advice ?
Thanks
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Posted by waggett
Can the Pioneer (or any of the others) be made multi-region? Rather important when a fair chunk of my DVD collection is R1 or 4.
I have the Philips DVDR980 which is made multi-region by using the One-for-all 6 codes (i.e a simple remote hack). I was really chuffed with how effective the procedure was because now it even spins RCE titles without any problems.
I appreciate that other people have their own views on which models are the most flexible, but I've not had any trouble playing back DVD+RW's on other machines (they don't have to be finalised either). It has RGB in aswell which is a bit of a godsend and my only real complaint is that the longest recording modes (3 & 4hrs) aren't half as good as the other two (which are both superb). Otherwise I can't understand what anyone would have against the Philips models.
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Originally posted by Tony Keats
Otherwise I can't understand what anyone would have against the Philips models.
It's the cost of the blank media (around £3.50 - £4.00) compared to DVD-R/RW (under £1.00),
& with the new Panasonic DMR-E30 being officially announced at £550, it doesn't make the Phillips look much of a bargain.
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any links/info to the Panasonic DMR-E30 ?
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