Panasonic DIGA DMR-EZ47

image quality, usability, price, size

74% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

usability, image quality, price, design

reliability, size

60% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Great recording functionality, support for DVD-RAM, DVD upscaling

VHS becoming increasingly rare, no high-definition digital reception

Superb connectivity ; Built-in Freeview tuner ; Accepts almost all formats of DVDR

No analogue TV tuner ; No HDD ; Some picture quality issues

With upscaling from VHS, DVD and Freeview on offer, a hard disk isn't missed on this great value DVD recorder

Picture quality ; Simple operating system ; Versatile features

No SD card slot ; No USB ; Lacks DiVX or WMA playback

Some missing features, but on the whole a magnificent recorder for those who can’t let VHS go

The Panasonic DMR-EZ47VK records video to DVD or VHS; it has excellent recording quality, including an outstanding LP mode; HDMI output up to 1080p; good DVD upconversion; an SD card slot; flexible custom recording speed; DVD-RAM compatibility with the...

Its ATSC tuner cannot deliver full HDTV resolution; no EPG or IR blaster to control other gear.

Despite a few ATSC limitations, the Panasonic DMR-EZ47VK delivers almost all the features and performance we look for in a DVD/VHS recorder.

Superb connectivity, Built-in Freeview tuner, Accepts almost all formats of DVDR

No analogue TV tuner, No HDD, Some picture quality issues

With upscaling from VHS, DVD and Freeview on offer, a hard disk isn't missed on this great value DVD recorder

VERY RELIABLE

I bought this unit about a year ago because we have a lot of vcr tapes and didn't want to make them obsolete. It had all the functions we needed including recording shows onto disk to watch later. To date we haven't had any problems with it. We also...

The only thing that is anoying is that it takes a while to turn on while there is already a disk inside.

Besides what I have already mentioned in a past review, all the bells and whistles this model has for the price. Still going strong today. (Early last year, I took it to a service centre for a small reason, and was told the DVD-RAM drive was...

The only limitation is the tuner cannot decode HD, and it would be nice if the user could 'skip' the undecodable channels in the DVB and keep only those which work, but sadly, cannot do so. In spite of this, still no real 'cons' and I still have some...