Page 1 of New Panasonic & Philips DVD Recorder Reviews!!

I have just received my October issue of What Video and they have a review of the Philips DVDR890 and Panasonic DMR-30 DVD recorders.

They gave them both Best Buys!

Philips has added a 6 hour recording time, this time which is the same as the Panasonic. With the Philips you have the option of paying £100 extra for i Link for DV camcorders.

As the Panasonic has no i link this will probably sway you towards the Philips if you have a DV camcorder, but for me the "Time Slip" of the Panasonic which lets you record a program and watch a recording on the same disc at the same time, does it for me!

I also thought I should mention that it said about the old Panasonic E20 model that it would not work with cheap, unbranded DVD-r`s but this new model worked fine with a Princo blank.

If you can wait there is an even better model from Panasonic coming!! Its the DMR-HS2 which is the same but adds a 40 GB hard disc!! Its also able to record from the hard disk to DVD-R at 2 - 12x normal speed. £1000 though!

This item was edited on Wednesday, 4th September 2002, 17:26

I have recently purchased both a Panasonic and a Philips. They are both very good machines. But I think that DVD-R will get ahead.

K

These models?

Are you rich? Why both? What prices did you pay and where from?

890 and E20 (have been assured the E20 is better.)

Micoman nice to see we agree on somethings matey, I am after a Hrs2 aswell.

I have learned one thing that may get people interested in the panny range, I have heard it records ntsc, does the philips?

Yes the Philips can record NTSC

All the best,

The 42%er.

"Micoman nice to see we agree on somethings matey, I am after a Hrs2 aswell"

Bloody Hell!

Yes. With a hard disc it would be great! Record on hard disc, edit it and then burn on DVD-R, nice!
Have you seen it for sale yet? says £1000 in What Video but no release date?

Prices for the others below

http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/thread.asp?Forum=223&Thread=115815&Type=1

P.S. My Mico still works!

seen it for 899 i think about a month ago.

but release date was later this month