Panasonic DMR-E60S DVD Player/Recorder (Silver)
Panasonic DMR-E60S DVD Player/Recorder (Silver)
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Amazon.com Product Description
Panasonic's fourth-generation DMR-E60S DVD recorder sports many of the features and technology benefits people expect from digital recording and merges them with a user-friendly interface and an unexpectedly low price. In addition, you can store and view digital photos using the unit's onboard SD/PC card slot, and a DV input terminal makes it easy to transfer images from a digital camcorder directly to DVD-RAM. A playlist function grants easy editing without the need to use a PC.
The DMR-E60S's joint support of DVD-RAM and DVD-R media provides the best of both worlds: DVD-R for the highest compatibility (letting you share video recordings with virtually anyone with a DVD player) and DVD-RAM (for rewritability and benefits like Time Slip, chasing playback, and simultaneous play and record). DVD-RAM offers the perfect solution for recording and re-recording favorite programs--over 100,000 times on the same disc.
The feature-rich DMR-E60S offers the benefits of progressive scan (for use with high-definition and HD-ready TVs), MP3 playback, enhanced time-shifting, instant access, and on-disc video editing. When connected to home theater components, you'll enjoy playback of multiple digital entertainment formats, including DVD Video, CDs, and audio CD-R/CD-RW discs. With instant recording onto a DVD disc, there's no need to have to find blank space, as with a VHS tape. Just press record and the unit will automatically find space on the disc, much like a computer's disk drive. Panasonic's Time Slip feature lets you replay a scene recorded earlier while a program is still in progress, without disrupting the recording process. And chasing playback makes it possible to watch from the beginning a show whose recording is still in progress. It's also simple to transfer favorite VHS tape recordings to space-saving discs, and personal movie libraries and family videos can be archived, preserved, cataloged, and accessed.
Product Description:
Panasonic DMR-E60 is a Progressive-Scan DVD Video Recorder with built-in SD and PC Card slots that records to DVD-RAM and DVD-R disks.PRODUCT FEATURES: Time Slip Function - Chasing Playback, Simultaneous Recording and Playback, Time Slip Roller and Button Control; Rapid Random Access, Recording and Playback; Playlist Playback; Direct Navigator; One-Touch Record and Play; Selectable Recording Modes - XP/SP/LP/EP/FR; Picture Quality Improvement Functions - Input TBC, 3D Y/C Separation, 3D Noise Reduction, Block Noise Reduction, Mosquito Noise Reduction; Dolby Digital (Dolby AC-3) 2-ch Audio Recording; Bilingual Recording (DVD-RAM only); MPEG2 Encoding with Hybrid VBR (Variable Bit Rate) Technology; Commercial Skip; Playable Disk Type - DVD-Video, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, Video CD, CD, CD-R, CD-RW.
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Panasonic DMR-E60S DVD Player/Recorder (Silver)
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Product Description
Panasonic DMR-E60 is a Progressive-Scan DVD Video Recorder with built-in SD and PC Card slots that records to DVD-RAM and DVD-R disks.PRODUCT FEATURES: Time Slip Function - Chasing Playback, Simultaneous Recording and Playback, Time Slip Roller and Button Control; Rapid Random Access, Recording and Playback; Playlist Playback; Direct Navigator; One-Touch Record and Play; Selectable Recording Modes - XP/SP/LP/EP/FR; Picture Quality Improvement Functions - Input TBC, 3D Y/C Separation, 3D Noise Reduction, Block Noise Reduction, Mosquito Noise Reduction; Dolby Digital (Dolby AC-3) 2-ch Audio Recording; Bilingual Recording (DVD-RAM only); MPEG2 Encoding with Hybrid VBR (Variable Bit Rate) Technology; Commercial Skip; Playable Disk Type - DVD-Video, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, Video CD, CD, CD-R, CD-RW.Amazon.com Product Description
Panasonic's fourth-generation DMR-E60S DVD recorder sports many of the features and technology benefits people expect from digital recording and merges them with a user-friendly interface and an unexpectedly low price. In addition, you can store and view digital photos using the unit's onboard SD/PC card slot, and a DV input terminal makes it easy to transfer images from a digital camcorder directly to DVD-RAM. A playlist function grants easy editing without the need to use a PC.The DMR-E60S's joint support of DVD-RAM and DVD-R media provides the best of both worlds: DVD-R for the highest compatibility (letting you share video recordings with virtually anyone with a DVD player) and DVD-RAM (for rewritability and benefits like Time Slip, chasing playback, and simultaneous play and record). DVD-RAM offers the perfect solution for recording and re-recording favorite programs--over 100,000 times on the same disc.
The feature-rich DMR-E60S offers the benefits of progressive scan (for use with high-definition and HD-ready TVs), MP3 playback, enhanced time-shifting, instant access, and on-disc video editing. When connected to home theater components, you'll enjoy playback of multiple digital entertainment formats, including DVD Video, CDs, and audio CD-R/CD-RW discs. With instant recording onto a DVD disc, there's no need to have to find blank space, as with a VHS tape. Just press record and the unit will automatically find space on the disc, much like a computer's disk drive. Panasonic's Time Slip feature lets you replay a scene recorded earlier while a program is still in progress, without disrupting the recording process. And chasing playback makes it possible to watch from the beginning a show whose recording is still in progress. It's also simple to transfer favorite VHS tape recordings to space-saving discs, and personal movie libraries and family videos can be archived, preserved, cataloged, and accessed.
Customer Reviews:
Good except for one thing.......2004-03-15
Can You Say "BROKEN"?.......2004-01-20
The problem I've had is it breaks.
I got mine in 9/03. It is residing in my local Authorized Repair facility. For the third time. Here are the details:
1. Firewire input failure. Repaired.
2. Remaining inputs failed. Repaired.
3. It's 1/19/04 as I write this. The unit has been in the shop since late Dec. '03 with its latest hissy-fit. This time it refused to burn-most of the time-and when it did the disks came out hotter than fresh asphalt and wouldn't finalize. The repair guys tell me it is taking so long because they cannot get the necessary part(s) from Panasonic.
I've complained to Panasonic via their website. Twice. They reply with a canned (read meaningless) reply within a couple of weeks. They don't seem to be terribly interested.
My advice: consider another brand.
Panasonic DMR-E60 @ Bytesector.com.......2004-01-02
WOW! Very pleased!.......2003-10-11
I connect my Sony camcorder with the DV cable into the front DV input, pop in a DVD-RAM (if I am just doing a straight-to-disk dump) or a DVD-R (if I want to create a basic navigation menu, finalize for playback as DVD-Video, etc), and start recording. The quality of the transfers is fantastic (when using brand-name DVD media) and the finalized discs have played back smoothly and clearly on both my standalone Pioneer player and my computer's DVD drive. To these eyes, the DVDs I've created so far are about as close as one can get to making an identical copy of the source. No artifacts, no pixel drag, no hesitations, nothin'.
If you're familiar with connecting a VCR to a TV, and know your way around your digital camcorder, it will take you (I kid you not) fifteen minutes to get this up and running. It's THAT simple. I had a finalized DVD ready to test within an hour of removing the unit from the box. The manual is reasonably well written, but the instructions most tangible to this device (the ones specific to RECORDING) do not exactly jump out at you.
I do suggest spending some time with the documentation just to acquaint yourself with the unit's on-screen options display. It's a fairly easy menu to follow, but learning about the available options ahead of time will make the experience smoother (hunt-and-peck won't be very rewarding here).
The remote control provides access to the most common and most useful operations, so you won't be spending all your time hovering over the actual unit trying to get something done.
Naturally, creating elaborate menus and doing sophisticated edits (as can be done on a computer system with the appropriate software) are beyond this device's capabilities. But it is possible to create a basic menu of entries on a DVD-R prior to finalizing, and for my purposes that will do just fine (NOTE: this unit was previously rated as 4 stars because I was under the impression that a menu could not be created on DVD-R. Further experimentation showed that this IS possible, and so this unit gets the extra star).
To be certain, if your source material is primarily from analog sources, or from a standard broadcast source (cable or satellite TV), there are cheaper units by the same manufacturer that may be better suited. Be warned that making recordings at a low-quality setting (anything less than XP or SP) will disappoint the lines-of-resolution counters out there (grin).
If you're shopping for a DVD-based VCR (in other words, you're less interested in resolution quality and more interested in exploiting DVD's generous storage capabilities), again, keep shopping.
However, if your primary goal is to transfer video from a digital source to a DVD, you insist on pure digital-to-digital quality, and you don't have the time or interest to do computer-based DVD recording, then THIS is the DVD recorder for you, hands down.
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