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Customers most agreed on the following attributes:
Pros:
Easy To Set Up (19), Great Picture (16), Attractive Design (13)
Best Uses:
Movies (15), Tv (13), Home (17), Dorm Room (3)

Excellent Panasonic DVD Recorder
By steve from phoenix,AZ on 03/20/2007
Pros:
Well Designed Feature Set, Easy To Set Up
Best Uses:
Tv
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
I recently returned an RCA DRC 8052NC to [...] - it worked ok but had a few flakey features. Like its clock would loose time! I then bought the Panasonic DMRES25S and couldn't be happier. Its clock auto-sets itself using a TV station! I really like how you can record and watch at the same time. I use its commercial skip feature all the time. Recorded quality if very good, and its up-converter is as good or better than the RCA.
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Cons:
Hdmi Compatibilty, Remote Control
Pros:
Attractive Design, Easy To Set Up, Great Picture
Best Uses:
Copy, Home, Tv, Movies
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
The Panasonic DMRES25S DVD Recorder Plays Movies And Records In Near High Definition Quality (Hard To Tell Difference), But It Is Not Compatible With Satellite High Definition Boxes And The Remote Does Not Have An Eject Button On It. But, Overall It Is An Excellent DVD Recorder For The Money. I Have Two (2) Of Them Now. [...]
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Cons:
Remote Control Is Busy
Pros:
Sleek Design, Great Picture
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
I use primatily to offload stuff from my Satellite DVR that I want to save permanently. 4 recording speeds yield 1,2 4, or 8 hour recordings on a 1 sided DVD. Quality starts dropping off slightly at 4 hour setting, so I normally use 2 hour. Finalizing (to make playable on other DVD players)only takes a couple of minutes. Very happy with unit.
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Pros:
Easy To Set Up
Best Uses:
Home, Tv
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Easy to use, good quality playback
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Cons:
Low Quality Picture, In 4-8 Hr Mode
Pros:
Easy To Set Up, Attractive Design, Picture As Good A Input, Great Picture
Best Uses:
Tv, Home, Movies
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Picture quality not too good in low speed recording. DVD great in 1-2 hr recording , but weak in 4-8hr recording. Easy top set up, but not sure the HDMI is worth the extra price. I wish the tuner was ATSC!
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Cons:
No Hdmi Input, No Component Video Input
Pros:
Attractive Design, Component Video Output, Great Picture, Hdmi Output, Excellent For Beginners, Awesome Quality
Best Uses:
Best For Beginners, Movies, Home, Tv
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
I did two weeks extensive research before deciding to buy this Panasonic DMRES25S DVD Recorder. I was little concerned intially if it would satisfy all my needs or not. When it arrived, it took almost a day for me to understand (since it was my first time to do such kind of things). I was able to do anything what I needed. I tried out numerous options on DVD+RW disc and earsing it again and again. Finaly when I was confident, I tried on DVD+R disc. It worked fine. I am extremely happy with this peice except one thing. It does NOT have HDML/Component Video INPUT. It has HDML/Component Video OUTPUT though which works great. I have been using this since 3 weeks and I feel Quality is great. If they would have given HDMI/Component Video input, I think, it would have been the BEST recorder in current market. I am not sure if any other recorder in current market has HDMI/Component Video input. The other thing that I could not make work (for few programs only) is when my DVR was showing fullscreen picture on my TV, it was displaying small screen. I think, it was due to lack of HDMI/Component Video input.
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Cons:
No Open Dock On Remote
Pros:
Easy To Set Up, Attractive Design, Great Picture
Best Uses:
Home, Movies
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
only bad part is that there is no open dock on the remote
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VERY NICE PRODUCT
By HANK from FLORIDA on 03/11/2007
Pros:
Attractive Design, Great Picture
Best Uses:
Home, Movies
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Cons:
Operations Guide Manual
Pros:
Easy To Set Up, Great Picture, Copy
Best Uses:
Tv, Home, Movies
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
So far, So good. A very efficient DVD recorder for the money. The 0perations Guide (manual) does explain hookups to other components very well and could be more "user Friendly".
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Cons:
No Hdmi Formatting, No Auto-open
Pros:
Easy To Set Up, Great Picture, Hdmi Output
Best Uses:
Movies, Off Air Tv
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Excellent picture, especially in HDMI mode. Like the old remote better. No adjustment for HDMI aspect ratio a minus.
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Cons:
No Tray Control On Remote
Pros:
Great Picture, Attractive Design, Hdmi Support, Easy To Set Up, Good Documentation, Supports Multiple Media, Inexpensive
Best Uses:
Great For Recording Tv, Tv, Home, Many Photo Options
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
This system met all of my expectations for the price. I love the many features it has.
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Pros:
Easy To Set Up, Great Picture
Best Uses:
Movies, Home
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
The Panasonic DMRES25S is a good quality product that is versatle and easy to use. I especially like the flexible recording speed feature that enables you to save the best quality file to the DVD space available. The only drawback I've discovered thus far is that if you feed a satellite TV signal into the recorder using an S-video cable before feeding the signal into your television, the DVD recorder must be on in order to watch the satellite signal. (Panasonic says this won't occur if you hook it up using the lower video quality RF cable.)
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Pros:
Attractive Design, Great Picture, Easy To Set Up
Best Uses:
Dorm Room, Tv, Home, Movies
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
I became interested in this product because of the DVD Ram recording. It allows you to use it just like a VCR with ease of operation. Formatting takes about two minutes to navagiate and execute to use the disk for another recording. I use it in the 6 hour mode and have excellent picture and sound quallity.
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Cons:
Only One Audio Output
Pros:
Multi-format, Attractive Design, Easy To Set Up, Great Picture
Best Uses:
Dvd Ram For Soap Episodes
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Many video outputs but just one audio out - the biggest drawback
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Pros:
Easy To Set Up, Great Picture, Attractive Design
Best Uses:
Tv, Home, Office, Movies, Professional Use, Dorm Room
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
I haven't used all of the features, but viewing, skipping, and recording are intuitive. A good buy too.
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Cons:
Inputs - Not Enough
Pros:
Great Picture, Easy To Set Up, Attractive Design
Best Uses:
Home, Tv, Movies
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Does the JOB, It will record very good quality in the LP mode, which will allow you to fit 4 hours of content on a 2 hour disk. The only problem I see is that it has only 2 inputs, one RF in, and one S-Video. The RF in from the cable, and then RF out to the cable box will degrade the signal of the cable. I even tried to split the cable and then go into cablebox and dvd recorder, the tuner in the recorder will only allow channels uptil 125, not good, most of my movie channels are above 300. Then I did not have a choice other than to use the S-Video, this produces a pretty good picture though. Overall a good product, I want to use it to make copies of content for my little kid, and for backing up my MiniDV's. DOES THE JOB, could be better, but nothing is better in the market.
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Very good product
By GKM from San Gabriel, CA on 03/01/2007
Pros:
Great Picture, Attractive Design, Easy To Set Up
Best Uses:
Tv, Movies, Home
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Cons:
Difficult To Use
Pros:
Easy To Set Up
Best Uses:
Movies, Tv, Home
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
it was a larger unit than I expected but appears to work much better than my last dvd recorder. some of the menus are non-intuitive however so reading of the manual which I usually don't do was necessary.
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Cons:
Not Durable
Pros:
Easy To Set Up
Best Uses:
Home
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
So far this unit is working fine. My DMR-E60S failed after two years of use but I am locked into Panasonic because I had several DVD's that were not finalized. Hopefully this unit will last a bit longer
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Cons:
Confusing Book
Pros:
Easy To Set Up
Best Uses:
Movies
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
nice player/recorder overall ,thinking of getting another one and replacing the LG player/recorder.
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Cons:
Manual Could Be Easier
Pros:
Attractive Design, Easy To Set Up
Best Uses:
Home
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Good buy for the [...] price. Could not see any major difference in compoent and HDMI outputs on a Sony 50" plasma HD.
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Pros:
Easy To Use, Great Picture, Attractive Design, Easy To Set Up
Best Uses:
Home, Office, Tv, Professional Use, Movies, Dorm Room
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
This unit is an attractive and easy to operate recorder. It is fuctional and has the HDMI interface that makes it a bargain.
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