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The Panasonic DMR Hard drive DVD is a disc recorder that allows you to record over 4 hours onto a DVD in the LP mode, without compromising quality. It gives you the same 500 lines of resolution as the SP mode, which saves space and makes it an economical disc recorder. The menus make navigation clear and easy and the unit is slim-line and lightweight.

The remote is laid out to be uncomplicated and many people are able to start recording within 15 minutes of taking it out of the box. The Panasonic DMR Hard drive DVD is excellent for recording onto discs, onto the hard drive, playing music CDs or just looking at photos. The picture quality of the recordings is amazingly clear with the upgrade of normal DVDs to 1080 pixels.

There have been some complaints about the remote control of the Panasonic DMR Hard drive DVD, such as no eject button or mute button. You also have to be sure you are pointing the infrared remote directly at the unit, or it won’t respond.

The only other complaints center around the fact that you will need to buy a HDMI lead separately, but that is true on many units. Some find the manual a little confusing. Others don’t like the fact that there is no twin tuner, where you can watch a different channel while recording.

Overall, everybody seems to agree that the quality of the Panasonic DMR Hard drive DVD is an excellent value, when it comes to the picture quality of actual recording and playback of recordings, which is what it is meant for. The hard drive is quiet and not distracting like some of them on the market.

The Panasonic DMR Hard drive DVD comes in several models, EX768, EX78 and EX88. The EX78 and EX88 come with larger hard drives, USB sockets, Jukebox facilities for more advanced music storage and the EX88 comes with an SD slot for digital photos.

Recording from HDD to DVD is easy on the Panasonic DMR Hard drive DVD, with no loss of quality. Panasonic is one of the few on the market that are able to record and play DVD-RAM. Most people agree that the product is brilliant with really good picture and excellent sound quality.

The unit offers a “fast copy” that is able to copy a two hour film from HDD to DVD in 15 minutes. Some had a hard time figuring this feature out, but once you have, it saves time over the traditional way that would be a minute by minute transfer of 2 hours.

The best reviews come from users that also have Panasonic Televisions, and when there seems to be complaints of quality, it is due to the fact that the Panasonic DMR Hard drive DVD is ready for the digital switchover, so is not giving as good of quality to those that don’t currently have that signal, which is not the fault of the unit. The ones that love it are using it with the right signal, right television and understand the manual and remote. The fairest review of the Panasonic DMR Hard drive DVD is that if you understand and use it properly, you will love it.