Panasonic DMR-EH50S DVD Recorder with 100 GB Hard Drive Recording

Panasonic DMR-EH50S DVD Recorder with 100 GB Hard Drive Recording

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Product Description:
Panasonic DMR-EH50 DVD Recorder offers all the benefits of the DVD-RAM format, like simultaneous recording and playback, random access, Chasing Playback, on-disc editing, and multi-format data compatibility that lets you record TV programs and still pictures. Now, with expanded multi-format recording and playback capability, the DMR-EH50 also lets you enjoy all your DVDs, no matter which format you choose. The DMR-EH50 also adds DVD-RW (video format) and DVD+R recording, and DVD+RW playback capability, for enhanced compatibility with personal computers and DVD players. An integrated 100GB Hard Drive allows up to 170 hours (approximately) of internal storage of your favorite videos for easy access. Want to store or see digital photos? There's also an SD SecureDigital memory card reader to read photos recorded on a compatible digital camera or camcorder. At only 2.5" high and 17" wide, you can easily add the DMR-HE50S to your collection of home-theater A/V components. Virtual Multi Encode System enables LP mode recording with the same 500 lines of horizontal resolution as that in the SP and XP modes Optical Digital Output for dts and Dolby Digital Decoders Smart Wheel user-friendly remote control to quickly find recorded programs and start playback faster than ever (200x quick search and fast-forward smooth search.) One-touch record capable Inputs/Outputs - Audio Video Input - LINE (pin jack) x 3 / S-Video Input - S connector x 3 / Audio Video Output - LINE (pin jack) x 2 / S-Video Output - S connector x 2 / Component Video Out / Optical Digital Audio Out (PCM, Dolby Digital, DTS) Unit Dimensions (W x H x D) - 16-15/16 x 2-1/2 x 13-13/16 / Weight - 9.92 pounds Silver Finish

Panasonic DMR-EH50S DVD Recorder with 100 GB Hard Drive Recording
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Panasonic DMR-EH50S DVD Recorder with 100 GB Hard Drive Recording

Manufacturer: Panasonic
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Accessories:

Monster Cable ULT I1000FO-8 THX Ultra 1000 Fiber Optic Digital Interconnect

Monster Cable Ultra Series THX½ 800 Audio Interconnects (8 ft)

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Product Features:

Dual recording - View a DVD while recording on hard drive

Sized for home-theater connectivity

Progressive-scan play compatible

Linear PCM audio and Dolby Digital audio record and play

Can record DVD-RAM, DVD-R, +R and DVD-RW discs; and can play back DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-Audio, DVD-video, Video CD, Audio CD (CD-DA) and CD-R/RW MP3 or JPEG formatted discs

ASIN: B0007YFQCG

Product Description

Panasonic DMR-EH50 DVD Recorder offers all the benefits of the DVD-RAM format, like simultaneous recording and playback, random access, Chasing Playback, on-disc editing, and multi-format data compatibility that lets you record TV programs and still pictures. Now, with expanded multi-format recording and playback capability, the DMR-EH50 also lets you enjoy all your DVDs, no matter which format you choose. The DMR-EH50 also adds DVD-RW (video format) and DVD+R recording, and DVD+RW playback capability, for enhanced compatibility with personal computers and DVD players. An integrated 100GB Hard Drive allows up to 170 hours (approximately) of internal storage of your favorite videos for easy access. Want to store or see digital photos? There's also an SD SecureDigital memory card reader to read photos recorded on a compatible digital camera or camcorder. At only 2.5" high and 17" wide, you can easily add the DMR-HE50S to your collection of home-theater A/V components. Virtual Multi Encode System enables LP mode recording with the same 500 lines of horizontal resolution as that in the SP and XP modes Optical Digital Output for dts and Dolby Digital Decoders Smart Wheel user-friendly remote control to quickly find recorded programs and start playback faster than ever (200x quick search and fast-forward smooth search.) One-touch record capable Inputs/Outputs - Audio Video Input - LINE (pin jack) x 3 / S-Video Input - S connector x 3 / Audio Video Output - LINE (pin jack) x 2 / S-Video Output - S connector x 2 / Component Video Out / Optical Digital Audio Out (PCM, Dolby Digital, DTS) Unit Dimensions (W x H x D) - 16-15/16 x 2-1/2 x 13-13/16 / Weight - 9.92 pounds Silver Finish

From the Manufacturer

Find and Record Your Favorite Programs Easily with TV Guide On Screen

Your hectic schedule isn't always compatible with TV program schedules, so being able to quickly locate your favorite shows and record them for later viewing is important. The TV Guide On Screen™ Electronic Program Guide lets you easily find your favorite programs and set up your DVD recorder to record them unattended. Explore program listings up to 8 days in advance, searching by genre or keyword to help narrow down your choices. Once you've found what you want in the listings, simply select the program and your DVD recorder will automatically begin recording at the preset time.

Watch and Record At the Same Time
You sit down to watch this week's episode of your favorite show and realize that you never got around to watching your recording of last week's episode. Not a problem with Time Slip™, featuring simultaneous record and play. Select this week's episode in the program guide, start recording, and as it records you can watch your recording of last week's episode.

What if you set up your DVD recorder to record a movie from 8:00 to 10:00 while you're out, but dinner was faster than you expected and you get home early? With our Chasing Playback feature, you don't have to wait for the program to finish recording in order to watch it. You can begin watching the portion of the program that has already been saved while the DVD recorder continues recording the remainder of the program.

Avoid Accidentally Recording Over A Program
If you own a VCR, it's almost certain that at some point someone has accidentally recorded over a movie or show that you wanted to keep. One-Touch Record will save your favorite programs from the same fate by automatically scanning the disc for blank space before starting the recording process. No more worries that your favorite sitcom's season finale will be overwritten by a family member's Sunday fishing show.

Browse Through Your Recordings Using Thumbnails
You and your family are sure to enjoy the convenience of your DVD recorder so much that you'll have a large library of recordings in no time. Keeping track of all those programs would be difficult if it weren't for our enhanced Direct Navigator, which displays thumbnails of every program on the disc as you browse, making it easy to identify the contents of each recording.

Built-In 100GB2 Hard Disk Recorder
The massive capacity of the built-in hard disk means you'll have plenty of space to record shows for everyone in the house. Record lots of programming, figure out what you want to keep, then move it to DVD in minutes for long-term storage.

Film-Like Image Quality
The goal of any playback device should be accurate reproduction of the original content. In the case of DVDs, most of that content is film-based. Utilizing advanced progressive scan3 playback techniques and very accurate MPEG video decoders, this DVD recorder provides an image that faithfully represents the image you see at your favorite movie theater.

About Progressive Scanning
Progressive scanning, otherwise known as 480P (p=progressive), creates a picture signal with double the scan lines of a conventional interlaced picture, 480I (I=interlaced), to create a noticeably sharper image. The 480P image offers higher picture resolution and eliminates virtually all motion artifacts. Even on large screens, the progressive scan lines are barely noticeable and picture flickering is greatly reduced, so you can enjoy extended viewing without eye fatigue. Our progressive scan DVD players can handle both progressive and conventional interlaced video. In order to take advantage of a progressive scan DVD player, your TV must be capable of accepting and displaying a progressive scan signal (480p).

The Benefits of Progressive Vs. Interlaced Scanning
Standard DVD-Video players use interlaced scanning to produce a picture. Interlaced scanning combines two fields to generate a picture of 525 scan lines (480 of which are displayed). Your television projects an interlaced image by first scanning the 240 odd-numbered lines of one field (in 1/60th of a second), followed by the 240 even-numbered lines of the other field (in 1/60th of a second). So, it takes two fields to build one frame of video.

Our progressive scan DVD players have a progressive video processor, which enables all 525 lines (480 of which are displayed) to be scanned at the exact same time; two interlaced fields are combined into one progressive frame. A television with 480P component inputs can completely scan the entire image in 1/60th of a second. The result is a smoother and sharper picture with high resolution and minimal motion artifacts.

Advantages of Progressive Conversion
Line doublers are used in other high-end home entertainment systems to provide progressive scanning. These may be stand-alone devices or incorporated into a digital TV. Impressive as they may be, our progressive scan DVD players' in-player progressive conversion has three big advantages over line doublers:

1) High precision and stability
A DVD-Video disc mastered from a film holds all the data necessary to produce an accurate progressive image, whereas an external line doubler must take hints from the video source to determine the source material and frame allocation.
2) All-digital conversion minimizes signal degradation
Since the signal from the DVD-Video disc is digital, progressive conversion can be performed digitally inside the player. Signal quality is protected until it leaves the player's analog output. In contrast, a stand-alone or in-TV doubler first receives information from the analog output of the source device then converts this analog signal back to digital for processing. Finally, it must translate the signal back to analog before outputting it. All this back-and-forth translation is much more likely to degrade the signal.
3) Processing is optimized to DVD-Video's high image quality
Line doublers built into digital TV sets are designed to work with a variety of video sources, so their settings are not necessarily ideal for DVD-Video. The progressive conversion of our progressive scan DVD players is optimized for the high resolution and low noise of the DVD-Video format. This enables the unit to preserve DVD-Video picture quality for display on all screen sizes, from direct-view CRT to projectors.

Customer Reviews:

DVR.......2007-05-19

Iam cheap - so I bought the only DVR I could find that required no subscription or payments after the initial purchase. And may I say it work just fine - a little difficult at times to program, but no extra costs!

Good Buy.......2007-03-20

This is a superb product. I have used it consistently since I have received it. It is very user friendly and excellent quality

Buy a Tivo Instead.......2007-02-10

I bought one of these things and it's difficult to operate, the video editing is counter-intuitive and it refuses to read the TV guide from my digital cable despite it's advertized ability to do so. I have to manually program everything. I had direct TV with a TV prior to moving here (DirecTV not available) and it was fantastic. This thing is a $500 piece of junk.

Well Worth It.......2006-10-15

This product is great -- even though I can't use the TV guide as I'm in Mexico and it only offers the US and Canada systems as options. Its manual is difficult to follow, but stick with it and experiment for a while. The end result is worth it.

Good recording quality, burns to DVD quickly on the quick recording mode (remember to set it to this BEFORE recording or you'll be burning at 1x -- the same speed/amount of time as the program originally took to be recorded. Love the flexible recording option for fitting a program needing greater capacity than a single dvd onto one disc through recording with different compression rates.

If someone could just figure out how to stop satellite signal dropout when I'm recording my favorite HBO series during tropical storms in the rainy season, I'd be 100% set up!

Exactly what we wanted.......2006-07-07

My wife and I wanted a DVR/DVD recorder so that we could record our 3yo daughter's programs as well as our own shows that were on when we weren't around. Pretty much what everyone else wants. This has proven to be exactly what we wanted and has worked flawlessly.

My only negative comment about this recorder is concerning the instructions. First let me state that this isn't a simple machine. It's more like using a computer program than a traditional VCR. In other words, it does have a definite learning curve and, if you had problems working a standard VCR, this might not be for you. I tend to be pretty good with this sort of thing, however, and I must admit that I did have quite a tough time getting it set up and working properly.

Back to the instructions, for such a complex machine you would think that Panasonic would make some attempt at making the instructions somewhat easy, or at least clear. They failed in both regards. I initially spent two frustrating hours trying to get it work with no luck at all. Just as I was about to give up I happened to notice the little "input" button on the remote. Seems you need to use the button to get the right input method in order to to get the system to work. Unfortunately the instructions failed to mention this fact. So, if you don't see the button, and put 2 and 2 together, you're out of luck. The instructions for most of the features are just as bad.

Bottom line, once you figure this out it works great. Be prepared to spend some time getting to know how to use it though. And, if you're the type of person who is technologically challenged, and find working the microwave to be a major task, you may want to stay away

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