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Panasonic, DVD Recorder/ VCR Combo,DV Input

The Panasonic DMR-ES35VS brings together a VCR and multi-format DVD recorder, enabling you to continue to enjoy your VHS video tape library as well as record TV programming and home videos directly to DVD disc. It includes easy-to-use front panel controls as well as an S-Video/composite AV input for connecting gaming consoles and video camcorders. This unit provides easy, one-touch copying of non-copy protected DVD disc material to VHS tape, and vice versa–great for archiving your old home videos. It also offers a FireWire port (also known as IEEE1394 or i.Link) for direct connection to a digital video camcorder, enabling you to download footage directly to disc.

Choose from a full spectrum of recordable DVD media–write-once DVD+R and DVD-R discs or rewritable DVD-RW/+RW and DVD-RAM discs. (For temporary storage, such as your favorite weekly shows, DVD-RAM discs are a great choice as they can be rewritten more times than DVD-RW/+RW discs.) In addition to standard DVD movie and CD audio discs and its compatible recordable formats, the DMR-ES25S can play back CD-R/RW, dual layer DVD-R/+R, and VCD disc formats as well as JPEG, and MP3 digital formats.

Panasonic’s Time Slip function consists of two features designed to give you added flexibility and control when making DVD recordings: Chasing Playback and Simultaneous Record & Play. With Chasing Playback, you don’t have to wait for an entire program to be recorded before watching it from beginning to end. This feature allows you to watch a program that’s currently being recorded from any point that’s already been recorded–while continuing to record the live program in progress. Simultaneous Record & Play allows you to record a program onto a disc while simultaneously watching any other program that’s previously been recorded on the same disc.

You can set your recorder to one of five different recording speeds, each varying in recording quality and length. EP mode yields the most recording time, LP & SP modes provide less recording time with higher quality recording, and XP mode gives you the highest quality recording. There’s also the FR (Flexible Recording) mode that lets you record with the best picture quality possible for the recording time and remaining space on the disc.

The Direct Navigator feature makes it easy to find a previously recorded program on a disc. A list of recording dates, times, channels and (user-entered) titles are shown on screen. With the Playlist Playback function, you can perform simple non-linear video editing using, such as rearranging the order of scenes, skipping over unwanted scenes, or copying selections

Jump directly to any spot on a disc and begin playback or recording right away with the Rapid Random Access function when using DVD-RAM discs. Even if there is no sequential area of empty space available, this DVD recorder can record data on available space throughout the rest of the disc. You will also avoid searching for a blank spot to start recording, or accidentally recording over desired material.

Enjoy a great picture on you flat screen LCD or plasma HDTV using the component video output, and immersive surround sound via the optical digital audio output for Dolby Digital and DTS home theater effects. The full lineup of video and audio connections includes:

• RF input: 1
• RF output: 1 (for VCR)
• Composite video/audio input: 2 (1 front)
• Composite video/audio output: 1
• S-Video input: 2 (1 front)
• S-Video output: 1
• Component video output: 1
• Digital audio output: 1 optical

Tech Talk
Component video (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound.

What’s in the Box
DVD recorder/VCR, remote control (with batteries), AV cable, RF cable, power cord, one DVD-RAM disc, printed operating instructions

I bought this one because it claimed it would make a DVD copy of a VHS tape look BETTER than the original tape. Though I couldn’t be certain of this most of the time, I can definitely say that the DVD copy of the VHS tape showed NO loss in copy-generation (i.e. the DVD copy looked as good as the original tape). And, on ONE occasion in which I had a poor quality VHS tape (with slight ‘posterization’), this unit showed that it WAS capable of making a copy better than the original. My unit only had one software flaw…when copying a VHS tape to DVD, you could NOT rely on the on-screen menu to indicate what ’speed’ (SP/LP/EX) would actually/truly be used for the DVD recording. Instead, I had to push the appropriate remote button a few times to make the FRONT PANEL DISPLAY (rather than the on-screen menu) indicate the actual speed of the DVD recording that would be used. Also, after 3 years of fairly frequent use, I’m now starting to get some picture quality ‘issues’ on the DVD’s. But (as recommended in their manual), I’ll contact Panasonic to see if they still make the DVD ‘lens cleaner’ to improve picture quality. And, yes, as others have said, the manual is poorly written and confusing. But all-in-all, if you want to make GOOD quality DVD’s from old VHS tapes, this is the unit I’d recommend.

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