EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Hands on with Panasonic's DMR BS850 Blu-ray recorder

re: EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Hands on with Panasonic's DMR BS850 Blu-ray recorder

munkyjunk — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:20:50 GMT

Where did the pull those prices from?

Blu-ray player - £200

freesat HD PVR - £260

DMR XS350 costs £699!! There all vastly overpriced, if you knocked £300 of each model they would still not be good value.

I expect these prices will fall dramatically in the next 6 months.

re: EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Hands on with Panasonic's DMR BS850 Blu-ray recorder

David Fuller — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:51:57 GMT

Hmmm, not really an exclusive is it? Home Cinema Choice and a few other AV sites are well ahead of you on posting these details online.

re: EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Hands on with Panasonic's DMR BS850 Blu-ray recorder

Clare Newsome — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:25:58 GMT

Ah, but they haven't had their hands on a production-spec model....(and this is a follow-up to earlier pieces we've done both online and in-mag)

re: EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Hands on with Panasonic's DMR BS850 Blu-ray recorder

smithdom — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:41:12 GMT

I'd like to see them bring out a model without DVD or Blu-ray support, just a regular twin tuner Freesat PVR to go head to head with the Humax. Any indications of whether they have one in the pipeline?

re: EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Hands on with Panasonic's DMR BS850 Blu-ray recorder

Andy Clough — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:13:42 GMT

David Fuller

We first reported on the new Panasonic Blu-ray recorders on February 25th, with several follow-up articles since then.

As Clare says, we're the first UK magazine/website to get our hands on a full production model for review, not a pre-production prototype.

re: EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Hands on with Panasonic's DMR BS850 Blu-ray recorder

Highway — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:05:48 GMT

My thoughts exactly "smithdom". I already own a blu-ray player and I just want a big hard disc and twin tuners to timeshift films and series. No intention of writing to Blu-ray discs.

re: EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Hands on with Panasonic's DMR BS850 Blu-ray recorder

Big Aura — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:16:14 GMT

Hi Andy - sorry I missed this, as am quite interested. One thing that I was wondering (and your review may address this) is how it deals with a single satellite input?

(As I can't get a second feed from my dish easily), main concern is how this works in practice...

I know I won't be able to watch BBC1 and record BBC2, but can I watch and record BBC1 at the same time, or can I record BBC1 without having to switch the input cable from "watch tuner" to "recorder tuner"?

Cheers & thanks

Garry