good question sony has already good review no doubt panasonic wiil do as wellpdhowes said:Now that both Sony and Panasonic have recently launched dvd recorders with hard disk and integrated digital tuner - the RDR HXD710 and DMR EH60D respectively, which is the one to get, if either?
eleanor said:good question sony has already good review no doubt panasonic wiil do as well
big plus for sony is hdmi output supports also double layer
but panasonic always had better recording qualities
nikyzf said:I'm fairly sure the Sony 910 has HDMI but the 710 does not. Both Sonys have i.Link (DV-in), and I think the Pan does not, which might matter if you have a DV camcorder.
laser said:The DMR-EH60D does have an i-link socket and can record both PAL and NTSC sources via i-link and scart.
staiger said:rpb need to correct you. I have a Panasonic DMR EH60D and it does
not have Guideplus, all it has is a basic EPG.
I was hoping it did as per the Guideplus site http://www.europe.guideplus.com
but a note in the manual states that the full version is currently
unavailable.
stormjai said:does either dub with chapters/thumbnails intact from HDD to DVD (if bitrate is not changed - or even better if bitrate is changed to optimise pic quality)
BlackRaven said:So - have we got a conclusion on which is the better of the 2?
laser said:The DMR-EH60D does have an i-link socket and can record both PAL and NTSC sources via i-link and scart.
BlackRaven said:So - have we got a conclusion on which is the better of the 2?
Eric Badger said:There's a short review of the HXD710 in the current What HiFi magazine. They report that the quality of its digital tuner is marginally better than the Panasonic's. Probably not enough to be an issue for most people though.
As HelenS says, in the end it's down which feature set and aspects of functionality people prefer that will influence their purchasing decision, rather than the minimal differences in performance quality.
That and the fact that the Sony just looks so much better, of course!
HelenS said:All a matter of taste though! The Panasonic's prettier in real life than in photos, as it has a mirrored finish to the dark section and a rather attractive cobalt-blue LED strip over the SD slot...!
Whilst I'm being trivial: Pioneers look quite nice too - but is that really a screwhead they have on top, off centre in one of two depressions? Looks sort of strange... I wondered if it was a control button of some sort?
David Robinson said:Hmmm... I just downloaded the user manual for the Panasonic, and it looks as if it doesn't record directly from the internal DTT tuner, because it talks about setting the record mode i.e. quality. This would imply that the internal Freeview has to be decompressed and then re-compressed and possibly even goes to analogue before being digitised again. If true this is pretty poor for a machine in this price bracket and will be inferior to much cheaper PVRs such as the Humax PVR-8000T, Pace Twin etc.
Is this really the case? What about the Sony?