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 enlarge | Brand: Panasonic
Category: CE
Buy New: $949.99
New (2) from $949.99
Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 20240
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.2
Dimensions (in): 13 x 16.9 x 2.3
MPN: DMREH55S
Model: DMREH55S
UPC: 037988253753
EAN: 0037988253753
ASIN: B000F4CVE4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 When it works, it's great however... November 24, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this unit a year ago to replace the panasonic DMRE85HS - which froze up after two years of use.
When it works, I really like it. However it is really really annoying when it decides not to record a program - about 10-15% of the time.
I check to make sure the system is setup to record a program, however it will record 5 seconds and then stop. This is true for both recordings selected using the TV guide, and programs manually setup to record on a particular channel at a predetermined time.
This leads to disappointments once or twice a week. Which at the $428 price I paid a year ago for this unit from Amazon, is frustrating.
I am astounded they are now asking close to $2000 for a new unit!
Why can't Panasonic offer HDD with ATSC?? November 7, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Is it so hard to ask for a HD PVR? They got all the pieces out, just not together. I own the older E80H which I use as a PVR, a free TIVO if you will. Except this is NTSC only (standard analog), which works fine. However I had a nicer HDTV now like many do and I have plenty of HD content available with the addition of an HDTV antenna on my roof.
All this guy wants is a non-TIVO, non-cable, non-sat HD PVR. I don't care if they offer such a product that you can use with TIVO, cable, sat if you choose to. I don't care if they add a DVD burner or not (I've never used my DVD burner feature on my E80H), I'll pay the extra for this feature if I have to. Just make the damn thing have a HDD recording PVR type features that can do the same with HD content!!
Am I the only one? Actually I know I am not, there are plenty of folks on avsforum that want the same. Why pay 100+/mo for something that is freely available (provided you have the equipment, which is what this review is about)?
I actually have such a product from LG, its an HD PVR with a 250gig HD. Its UI blows though. Its the most gawd awful thing to figure out how to program. My panasonic E80H though is simple, logical and fun to use. Even my wife programs it! I just want the modern equivalent of the E80H! Anyone at Panasonic listening? Or are they all in bed with TIVO and the cable companies?
 Comprehensive Review November 6, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great product and I would definately recommend it over the new Philips recorders/dvrs that are on sale. It may cost a lot more but if you want all of the features this is a must-have!
great recorder October 12, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
like most panasonic product i ve had this is a good recorder just 1 thing that is dissapointing you only can read a dvix on dv r or cd r cd rw
Worth every penny June 17, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I did a lot of searching for information on many DVD recorders before settling on this one last year. I'm definitely not disappointed. I read a lot of reviews of other products of people having endless nightmares with extremely complicated and/or poorly made machines, and it looked like this one was going to be very durable and relatively simple to use compared to other recorders.
It was a bit of a pain learning to navigate my way around all the different menu's but that's to be expected from a product that has so many features, and almost everything is done in as simple a way as possible so even the technically challenged can use it. The easy set up guide left out a few things that could have been included like the fact that extra long play programs only could be copied to DVD in real time, but with long play, high speed mode can be used (4 hours of program copies in about 15 minutes). Also it took me a while to figure out some very basic stuff like the importance of having the drive select in the right mode before doing various things.
It's really nice when having programmed recordings not to not have to have the cable box or DVD recorder on the right channel, not have to have worry about whether the DVD recorder is on or off, whether there's a tape or disk in, whether it's going to record over something else, etc. Also it's nice to have the option of watching something once off the hard drive then deleting it, or copying it to a disk, and nice to be able to watch something on the hard drive while something else is recording. The tv guide feature is great, it didn't work for while, but it's been working for a good while now, so I think that was a problem with the cable company and not the DVD recorder. There are no complaints with the picture quality on the hard drive and on recorded DVD's (in long play). I'm not sure why Amazon hasn't had this product available, maybe they will soon. I had to buy mine somewhere else.
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