Panasonic’s top-of-the line, fifth-generation DMR-E85HS DVD recorder packs a built-in 120 GB hard drive capable of storing up to 213 hours–more than 11 straight days–of audio/video programming in EP mode. So whether you’re seeking the time-shifted TV viewing abilities of a VCR-like DVR or you want to archive your home movies to long-lasting DVD-RAM and DVD-R discs, this is the recorder for you. But it doesn’t just slice and dice. The DMR-E85HS is also a progressive-scan DVD player for use with standard and high-definition or HD-ready TVs. It handles your DVDs, CDs, and homemade MP3 discs, as well as high-resolution DVD-Audio discs, which specialize in multichannel music mixes with quality surpassing that found on commercial CDs. Just like with a DVR, you can schedule the recording of TV programming through the DMR-E85HS’s user-friendly onscreen guide. The DMR-E85HS offers the flexibility of recording on both DVD-RAM–perfect for instant chapter access and for multiple rerecordings–as well as DVD-R, generally regarded as the most widely compatible of the many DVD formats. DVD-RAM offers high storage capacity, high-speed data transmission, exceptional picture and sound quality, fast random-access memory, and rewritability up to 100,000 times. DVD-RAM recording time extends to 16 hours per disc in EP mode on 9.4 GB double-sided media. You can program the recorder for daily or one-time broadcasts much as you would a VCR. To simplify programming, the DMR-E85HS includes the TV Guide On Screen Electronic Programming Guide. With DVD-RAM, you can even perform simple nonlinear video editing, such as rearranging the order of scenes, skipping over unwanted scenes, and creating custom play lists of favorite scenes on a disc. One touch of a button is all it takes to record data from the DMR-E85HS’s hard disk drive to a DVD-RAM o (more…)
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Panasonic DMRE85HS Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder with 120 GB Hard Drive Recording
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Nice machine….when it worked
We bought this dvd/dvr recorder E85H about 3 years ago. I would call it a lemon basically.
At one point we had to reformat the hard drive (losing all our…
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DO NOT BUY THIS ITEM!!!
I purchased this product in Dec 2004. Hard to operate. The TV guide feature did not work. Slow to startup. It locked up in March of this year.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent choice
I bought my unit over 3 years ago when my vcr died. Did some research and liked what I read about this unit.
1.0 out of 5 stars
biggest waste of money EVER
This DVR was the biggest waste of money EVER. I wouldn’t even give it one star, but I had to in order to save this review.
3.0 out of 5 stars
not very reliable
I have had this unit for 2 years or more and it was great compared to using a VCR, in many ways, but I find that it isn’t very reliable for recording everything I program in…
1.0 out of 5 stars
Full of problems
I’ve had the DMR E85H for over two years now and it is terrible. It locks up, takes a long time to power up, once you power up about 50% of the time the remote only partially…
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NOT RELIABLE – I just found problems, read first
I got mine in summer 2005, since always I found problems. First, when I press the REC button on the box just don’t start recording even after few seconds, I try everything, this…
3.0 out of 5 stars
Very Tempermental Panasonic DVR
I bought my E85HS over a year ago and from the start have had problems with the TV Guide feature. Now as of March 2007 it does not work at all and with 2 hours into tech support…
2.0 out of 5 stars
BEWARE if you are in Denver/Boulder – no TV Guide listings
I have owned this unit for nearly two years, have called customer support several times (they are friendly and fairly knowledgeable) and have never been able to use TV Guide…