Advantages: easy set up, excellent picture quality, remarkable tuner/reception, support all AV in and out Disadvantages: a little bit clumsy menu
...players and hard disk PVRs, Panasonic presents the DMR EX-78 which in many ways become one of the best buys in 2008. One of the result of years of experience in DVD recorder development.
Once installed, the DMR-EX78's image quality amazes its viewers. Being equipped with an HDMI video output, coupled to 1080p video upscaling if needed, plus the excellent TV tuner, resulting in terrific broadcast pictures.
The DMR EX-78 is equipped with a 250GB ... ...recordable DVD format. Panasonic DMR-EX78 is also one of the first Freeview Playback compatible DVD/HDD combination having a complete range of Freeview recording features. This includes series and split recording plus onscreen alerts to warn a schedule clash. However, to compensate the Freeview digital TV tuner, DMR EX-78 excludes the analogue alternative.
With that amount of internal storage, DMR EX-78 can hold up to 441 hours of TV programmes ...
LouisLiem 19.01.2009
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Advantages: high picture quality, many DVD formats Disadvantages: loses settings on power outage / unplugging, toslink only digital audio
The DMR ex78 (UK model) is easy to use but suffers for a major design defect, the settings are not stored so that if there is a power outage all settings are lost. If dvb-t input is present, the box automatically regenerates its tuning settings, but any custom settings such as type of input, output signals are lost after a power outage. The UK model has no "country" setting option on startup, the continental one does (and also has VHS DVB-T channels ... ...21. Manual tuning is not possible unless there is a DVB-T signal. Since the box will most commonly use the hard drive for recording and playback, you need to tell it to use the optical drive if you want to do simple things like playing a CD or DVD.
It is a pain to have to use optical fibre for digital audio. I find coax less demanding and any length of cable is easily available.Short Toslink cables can be easily obtained but long ones which I need ...
porkyandbess 04.02.2009
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