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Technical Details
- HD Blu-ray recorder with Long Time Archiving and PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus
- Twin HD terrestrial tuner compatible with Freeview+HD
- Easy and convenient operation : Pause Live TV and Rewind Live TV
- Enjoy recorded content in a separate room : DLNA
- Multi media HD storage/archiving : networking with HD camcorder and digital still camera
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Free your HD with the Panasonic DMR-BW880EBK 500GB HDD Blu-ray recorder, featuring twin Freeview+HD Tuners to give you subscription-free High Definition programming.
With twin HD tuners, you can enjoy high definition broadcasts with no subscription and no monthly fee.
Freeview+HD
Record 2 channels - never miss your favourite programs
Thanks to the twin tuners, you can record two channels at once, straight to the Blu-ray Recorder's built-in Hard Disc Drive. Alternatively, you can record one channel while watching another, or even record two while watching a DVD, Blu-ray Disc or content you've saved to the HDD.
With so many channels to choose from and so many recording and viewing options, it's as good as writing the TV guide yourself.
Twin Digital tuners
Freeview+HD and Freesat+HD are the only way to enjoy high definition broadcasts with no subscription and no monthly fee. With over 140 channels, including HD offerings from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, you'll always find something to watch. Plus, because it's all recordable straight onto the Blu-ray recorder, you'll never have to miss your favourite shows again.
Record up to two channels at once, and watch pre-recorded shows off the HDD at the same time.
Pause and rewind live TV
The Blu-ray recorder's DIGA system is the new simple and convenient way of pausing and rewinding live TV. With the ability to rewind up to 2 hours, you'll never miss a thing. You can pause live TV as though you were watching a DVD.
HD Recording
Record with no loss of quality
With the Blu-ray recorder's DR mode, you can record HD content and broadcasts direct to the HDD without the slightest change in quality. You get the same unforgettable picture, the same crisp 5.1ch surround sound and the same subtitles and audio description. It's full High Definition in all its glory - just as it was intended and yours to view whenever you like.
Fast HD conversion
We want your HD recording world to be as flexible as possible so we offer a range of High Speed Copy Modes to make the handling of your HD content easier.
Panasonic's original H.264 Encoder provides a convenient and space-saving compression format that saves valuable space on your Blu-ray recorder Hard Disc and allows a number of programs to be saved to a single Blu-ray Disc. In addition, the Encoder ensures superb picture clarity in both slow and fast motion playback.
Viewing and recording has never been easier with Panasonic's simple DIGA system.
High-speed copying
Copying content from the HDD to disc is not only simple; it can be done at incredibly high speeds. Your family movies and photos can be archived in full HD to a Blu-ray disc, or simply copied to a DVD so you can share them with all your friends and family. Either way, it takes very little time - one hour of full HD content can be archived to Blu-ray Disc in just one minute (HM Mode).
Stunning Playback
Blu-ray Discs allow you to watch your favourite movies and moments in stunning high definition. And the Panasonic range of Blu-ray Recorders ensures that you can experience all the crisp detail, rich colour and unforgettable sound in the way they were originally intended.
That's because Panasonic Blu-ray Recorders use high quality image technology that precisely processes every single pixel. They also incorporate 1080/24p playback, meaning images from a Blu-ray Disc are reproduced in their original form, with no need for conversion.
Our powerful processor Uniphier Chip that has seen Panasonic win many awards; offers the best picture performance for Blu-ray movies and for HD recordings.
PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus is a high quality image-processing technology developed by Panasonic to precisely process each pixel of the Blu-ray Disc™ video signal in the vertical direction. It reproduces colour data with twice the accuracy of conventional systems to keep colours faithful and sharp.
Because each pixel is processed, you get High Definition pictures that remain sharp even when the action heats up.
Eco Friendly Power Features
Intelligent Auto Standby means that when you're finished watching a film on your Blu-ray recorder, you can simply press "TV" and the recorder will automatically revert to standby mode.
Furthermore, recorders with the Power Save function will automatically turn on and off at the same time as your TV, ensuring that it never uses power unnecessarily.
HD Network Hub
Store photos and videos in High Definition
This Blu-ray recorder makes it easy to store and manage all your favourite HD content in one convenient place. Finally, a simple way to really enjoy and save HD home movies from a camcorder without a PC. Shoot your HD movie and transfer direct to Blu-ray in full High Definition, or transfer to the hard disc, edit, and then save to Blu-ray Disc. This player is also great for transferring HD images. Or, if you want to share with all your friends and family, why not save them in standard definition to DVD so everyone can enjoy?
Record, edit and share your home movies and photographs via the HDD.
DLNA networking
The DLNA Network Technology transforms your BD recorder into a true home hub. Simply connect to your wireless home network (LAN) and you can send AVCHD, JPEG files and recorded TV programmes to your DLNA capable VIERA TV, Blu-ray player, PC, and other devices on your existing network.
Internet TV
Stay connected with VIERA CAST and BD Live
With VIERA CAST we've broken down the barriers between TV and the internet. It allows you to access live web content including YouTube and Picasa, where you can access those shared videos and pictures live on your TV screen.
And with BD Live, you can connect to the Internet and play Blu-ray movies that have Internet-enabled content, such as interactive multiplayer games, trailers and extra features you can download from the Internet to local storage, e.g. on exchangeable memory like an SD memory card. The technology gets you the most from your movie watching. In the near future BD-Live will enable users to join in quizzes and challenge each other in super interactive games.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
61 of 62 people found the following review helpful
First the positives.
Brilliant bit of kit. High quality recording, very easy to set recordings, superb picture quality. It does the job really well.
However, compared to another PVR - I previously owned a HUMAX 9200T - some features are really annoying.
i) On the programme guide, the area at the left hand side is used for annoying adverts. I don't expect to have features like this on equipment that costs this much.
ii) On playback there is a 60 sec skip forward and 10 sec skip back. Each press takes a couple of seconds to process. So skipping adverts is quite tedious. Skip, wait, skip, wait,........ When you discover you have gone past the adverts, you have to backtrack in 10 sec Intervals. The human with instant 30 sec skip times (user adjustable) was so much more user friendly.
iii) Although the unit connects to a home network and can see and use the media server on your home computer, the home computer cannot access any of the recorded programmes over the network. Instead you have to copy recordings onto blue-Ray, SD card or onto an attached USB hard drive.
iv) the vier a link is useful when attached to a panasonic tv. But not all controls on one remote are present on the other-its not easy to recognize which device you are controlling - the tv or the recorder.
But it's a good bit of kit. I'll get used to most of the issues, but the adverts? I'm really quite irritated by.
Brilliant bit of kit. High quality recording, very easy to set recordings, superb picture quality. It does the job really well.
However, compared to another PVR - I previously owned a HUMAX 9200T - some features are really annoying.
i) On the programme guide, the area at the left hand side is used for annoying adverts. I don't expect to have features like this on equipment that costs this much.
ii) On playback there is a 60 sec skip forward and 10 sec skip back. Each press takes a couple of seconds to process. So skipping adverts is quite tedious. Skip, wait, skip, wait,........ When you discover you have gone past the adverts, you have to backtrack in 10 sec Intervals. The human with instant 30 sec skip times (user adjustable) was so much more user friendly.
iii) Although the unit connects to a home network and can see and use the media server on your home computer, the home computer cannot access any of the recorded programmes over the network. Instead you have to copy recordings onto blue-Ray, SD card or onto an attached USB hard drive.
iv) the vier a link is useful when attached to a panasonic tv. But not all controls on one remote are present on the other-its not easy to recognize which device you are controlling - the tv or the recorder.
But it's a good bit of kit. I'll get used to most of the issues, but the adverts? I'm really quite irritated by.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
First, other reviews: OK, so the programme guide does have an advert on the left third, but it did not annoy me as my Panasonic TV uses the same guide with the same adverts so I was used to it! A few weeks ago a programme guide supplier went bust leaving some Freeview boxes with no guide at all, so if the advert stops that from happening in the future, I will tolerate it! The aspect ratio takes a bit of setting up, had to change my TV from AUTO to 16:9 and this box to 16:9 so that 4:3 porgrammes are displayed correctly (ie not stretched and with bars down left and right side). I had a Humax 9200/9300 too and the TV guide used to mute the sound and tv picture was lost but a firmware update cured that and 50 other problems so let's hope the same happens here in due course!
Now, picture quality is excellent. FreeView HD has deep, rich qualities on BBCHD, ITV1 HD and Ch4 HD. I am not new to HD (have Virgin) so it's not first impressions of HD! No Channel5HD but BBC One HD from 3 November 2010. The instruction book is thick but misses some important details, eg having to format a DVD before it can be used to record. The FreeView+ 'accurate recording' system seems to work only when the exact times are put in (i.e. EastEnders 1930-2000) - the book recommends you pad the start and finish times but this renders 'accurate recording' useless. Only got the machine yesterday so have not tried all the features but suitably impressed so far.
Now, picture quality is excellent. FreeView HD has deep, rich qualities on BBCHD, ITV1 HD and Ch4 HD. I am not new to HD (have Virgin) so it's not first impressions of HD! No Channel5HD but BBC One HD from 3 November 2010. The instruction book is thick but misses some important details, eg having to format a DVD before it can be used to record. The FreeView+ 'accurate recording' system seems to work only when the exact times are put in (i.e. EastEnders 1930-2000) - the book recommends you pad the start and finish times but this renders 'accurate recording' useless. Only got the machine yesterday so have not tried all the features but suitably impressed so far.
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Picture is great on my Panasonic TV. With the Viera Link functions this unit , the TV and the Panasonic Cinema Surround system volume all can be controlled from this units remote. The TV picture / TV timer program can record direct to the HDD of the BW880 via the scart lead with no problems. You have got to make sure hdmi leads are fully wired for the Viera Link control function - some cheaper ones aren't.
Everything automatically set up ok. Also no problem viewing recorded programs via wireless network on a laptop (Windows 7)- just open up Windows Media Player and double click the recording - plays with good quality.
The only niggle I had was that the Picture output via hdmi for some TV channels is not automatically recognised by the TV. Had to make sure the TV was set as aspect 16:9 and not Auto (for the BW880 input) - otherwise the picture appeared compressed horizontally, making faces look tall and thin. Also had to set the way that 4:3 pictures are output from the BW880 so that they were 16:9 with black bars on each side, otherwise the TV aspect settings would have to be continually changed. I don't have to touch the aspect settings now.
I also agree that the advert on the guide is annoying as it restricts the viewable area of the guide.
The Panasonic Customer Care Service seems good and they seemed willing to help with any questions.
Seems to have everything I need, which includes connections for recording video via DV off my camcorder (without the need for a computer with a firewire port).
Everything automatically set up ok. Also no problem viewing recorded programs via wireless network on a laptop (Windows 7)- just open up Windows Media Player and double click the recording - plays with good quality.
The only niggle I had was that the Picture output via hdmi for some TV channels is not automatically recognised by the TV. Had to make sure the TV was set as aspect 16:9 and not Auto (for the BW880 input) - otherwise the picture appeared compressed horizontally, making faces look tall and thin. Also had to set the way that 4:3 pictures are output from the BW880 so that they were 16:9 with black bars on each side, otherwise the TV aspect settings would have to be continually changed. I don't have to touch the aspect settings now.
I also agree that the advert on the guide is annoying as it restricts the viewable area of the guide.
The Panasonic Customer Care Service seems good and they seemed willing to help with any questions.
Seems to have everything I need, which includes connections for recording video via DV off my camcorder (without the need for a computer with a firewire port).
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