Pros: Must have for any home TV lover without TiVo monthly subscription crap and spyware.
Cons: none... perhaps DVD record speed. and can't access HD while recording.
The Bottom Line: Yes for any TV lover, pause live-tv with no quality loss, without losing control or spying by TiVo or Replays of the world. As a bonus, record to DVDs.
davelchen's Full Review: Panasonic DMR-E80H (80 GB) DVD Recorder
After reading glowing epinion reviews, I bought this for my mom who watches a ton of TV, right after the new year (3 months ago). It was for around $500 mail order. She has it hooked up to the progressive inputs of her HDTV digital mitsubishi projection TV (mentioned in another review).
The image quality is eye-popping. After extensive, close examination on big screen TV, I can say that any video and sound quality degradation from her cable signal is negligible.
She and my brother use it hard, for usually at least 3 hours a day. The favorite use is to watch basketball games and skip all commercials, half-time and timeouts. We find it saves 40 minutes, with no loss in picture quality and a greatly enhanced watching experience.
The picture quality in SP mode is ideal for regular TV (what is normally used) with almost no loss in quality. EP mode is decent VCR tape quality (ok for saving nightly news or cartoons). Lowest quality, LP mode is unusuable... it is like quality of a video rental which has been watched 100 times on harsh VCR conditions.
Haven't used the DVD-R recording feature much. It is slow. I think it usually records at 1X speed, though you can change some settings so it records faster. And I think you can't use the unit while it is burning a DVD which stinks.
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