Panasonic DVD recorder upgrade from EH50.... Any Suggestions?

[Jazzie]

Hi,
I have a Panasonic DMR EH50 which has been brilliant for the last 3 years but I think the time has come to upgrade, thing is I'm having trouble establishing which of the features I love appear on later models and scanning the forum there does seem to be an awful lot of fault threads.

Specific wants are the partial erase, the flexible record and the high speed dubbing. Mostly the HDD is used to back up from the Sky+ planner which is a whole other issue, and to edit and dub home movies and the occasional film to DVD.

Got to confess I love my EH50 and I'm not keen on changing from Panasonic, but its starting to have a few problems now so I figured start looking before it gives up the ghost altogether.

Any happy Panny users out there?

[Gavtech]

Originally Posted by Jazzie

Any happy Panny users out there?

There's thousands, but they keep quiet.

Don't let the fault issues put you off. That's what this forum is largely for, so we attract the problems.

For all the faults you may read about, Panasonic is THE most reliable maker of DVDR's according to independent statistics... very closely followed by Sony.

[Jim Pixel]

For the past 3 years(ish) I had a Sony RDR-HX910 and a Panasonic EH60. Both had 200 - 250 Gb HDD's. I used the Sony for movies and the Panasonic for my favourite motorsports like Formula 1, MotoGP and World Superbikes. Both had partial erase - Sony = A - B Erase,, Panasonic = Partial Erase,, same thing.. You set your start & finish markers and delete between... I was convinced that the Sony was the better quality capture and reproduction, so it handled the movies, whereas the Panasonic had better editing and the sportier applications would be more suited to this, so that's why I did what I did with them. It also had good faultless high speed burn to disc, as did the Sony which was a tad fussy on which DVD's you fed it.

Well, just a month or two ago, I decided to upgrade everything...
Panasonic 42" SD Plasma TV... Replaced with a Sony LCD 40" 1920x1080.
Sony HX910... Replaced with the new Sony HX980
Panasonic EH60... Replaced with the new EH58

With the two recorders,, why would I want to replace them with anything but their latest offspring, especially when I was so happy with what they both had to offer..??? The later stuff can only be better, surely. Yes, in my humble opinion, they are...

The Sony HX980 has improved its editing 100% and at last it is as good as the Panasonic in its own right.

If you are happy with Panasonic, why not simply get the latest in the lineup. It makes sense to me...

[Jazzie]

Thanks for the replies guys, finally opted for the Panny EX78.