We bought a Panasonic DVD-RAM recorder when they first became available, and it's OK. It has various drawbacks which this box completely fixes.
1. this box has 2 digital tuners. You can record 2 digital programmes simultaneously, whilst watching a previously recorded programme. That's very good.
2. The EPG is dead handy, I sit for 20 minutes once a week and set a few recordings. I rarely 'see what's on telly' these days - I've got the week's choice to hand all the time.
3. The 'pause live telly' thing is fantastic for the kids during the day and for us in the evening.
4. The menu of recorded programmes is very useful too.
There are some irritations - the menus are a bit slow, after you've set a recording from the EPG it returns to the current channel & date so you have to re-adjust, and it has 'frozen' once - I unplugged for 10 secs and all was well. I don't find the fan annoying at all (those people must live alone in cotton-wool lined flats) and all in all this is the best £80 I've ever spent.
Two things to note - the picture quality was initially poor, then I changed the 'SCART type' menu setting to RGB and the picture's perfect. Second, we are in a poor digital reception area and have a booster for the television digital tuner. This box didn't like that, it gave us erratic picture quality and often dropped the signal completely. I removed the booster and with a just length of coax the signal's good enough for the tuners in this box to work perfectly all the time - of course we can't use the telly tuner any more, but we don't anyway because we use this all the time instead because it's so good.
Highly recommended. It immediately becomes natural and what a relief to be in control of our TV viewing.
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