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 enlarge | Brand: Panasonic
Category: CE
Buy Used: £136.99
Used (5) Refurbished (1) from £136.99
Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 5181
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11
Dimensions (in): 13 x 16.9 x 2.4
MPN: DMR-EX77EB-K
Model: DMR-EX77EB-K
EAN: 5025232433377
ASIN: B000QDGS7A
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Not Bad - But not good with recording subtitles and pausing live TV April 2, 2008
Mr. D. Trim (Berkshire, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not a patch on my Humax 9200 PVR, but a nice bit of kit. The Humax is far better for day-to-day viewing recording. I got the Panasonic EX77 because it has one thing the Humax doesn't: a DVD recorder.
Being a single tuner box it really needs to be used in conjunction with another tuner, either built-in to the TV or another box separate box, but this is easy to set up.
It loses a star because:
You have to choose before you record whether you want subtitles; you can't turn them on-off during playback.
It can't really freeze live TV. You'd have to remember to set it recording to do so.
It doesn't support Freeview Playback features such as series record.
 Freeview recording issue March 26, 2008
Benway 22 (London, England)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This machine is fine, but - like others it seems - I stupidly did not realise that if you are recording a freeview channel then you are locked into watching that channel. A bit of a drawback, though one that is apparently shared by all (non-Japanese???) DVD recorders.
It seems there is a solution, involving using a separate freeview box and connecting it to a second scart socket on your TV. However, I only have one scart socket on my TV, which needs to be connected to the DVD recorder.
Does anyone know a way where I can set up both the DVD recorder and a separate freeview box, even though I only have one scart socket on my TV?
Many thanks for any assistance
Beware JPEG quality March 10, 2008
JV the German (uk)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
I will send mine back. One of the reasons I chose this HDD recorder was because I have a Panasonic camera, and a Panasonic HDTV. You would think that jpeg pictures coming from my camera via this unit to the Panasonic TV look great.. well, they do not. Staight lines turn into jagged lines, and colours start bleeding. It is almost as if they are trying to upsample the thumbnails. I tried from SD card, I tried different image manipulation programs, nothing worked. I wrote to Panasonic and they advised me to lower the resolution on my Panasonic camera.. joke. I took the same pictures to a Sony shop and their HXD870 unit displayed them without problem (on a CD generated with Photobase, a program supplied by Panasonic with my camera). So this is the first time I will send a Panasonic device back, it is disappointing. Other than that, it is a brilliant HDD recorder, and the 1080p picture quality from standard DVD and even from material recorded from Freeview is stunning.
 Reliability March 10, 2008
Peter Frankling
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is the second Panasonic DVD recorder I have bought and both have gone wrong, granted the first one was a different model and older. After 4 weeks the sound had started to deteriorate and a fortnight later had gone altogether and had to be repaired. Problems once is unfortunate but twice is unacceptable. It may have all the bells and whistles but as far as I am concerned, there are serious reliabilty issues with Panasonic products
 Please don't buy March 9, 2008
Demo (London)
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought this machine on an impulse walking past the Panasonic dealer in my local shopping centre. I took it back ten days later as it had developed a fault called U88. The DVD draw, containing one of my favourite films, would not open. After looking for info on the web before I took it back I discovered this fault is very common.
I then researched the specs that I wanted and bought a Sony RDR-HXD870 from Amazon. The Sony is an excellent machine, better than the Panasonic even before the fault developed. Don't buy the Panasonic.
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