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Some infor, on the Panasonice Blu-ray recorder
I was reading some other posts and it was tell me that the Panny Blu-ray/Freesat/recorder was coming down in price, and I am "keeping a wee eye on it" but I need to know a couple of things and hope someone can help
1. if it can record to blu-ray, can it also record to a normal dvd as with my present dvdr ie SD recording. 2. Can it play "normal" DVDs, as I do not know what type of discs a blu-ray player uses. 2. Will I still need to get an disk put on my wall, or is it "all contained2 I hope someone can help with this. |
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I was reading some other posts and it was tell me that the Panny Blu-ray/Freesat/recorder was coming down in price, and I am "keeping a wee eye on it" but I need to know a couple of things and hope someone can help
1. if it can record to blu-ray, can it also record to a normal dvd as with my present dvdr ie SD recording. 2. Can it play "normal" DVDs, as I do not know what type of discs a blu-ray player uses. 2. Will I still need to get an disk put on my wall, or is it "all contained2 I hope someone can help with this. If by disk you mean dish yes you need a dish for it's satellite tuners. |
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But beware--it still looks like you can't record ITV HD. Quote:
Did this ever get resolved? Is ITV HD still 'copy never'?
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You cannot copy ITV HD programmes from the HDR to external HDD via USB so I would say its still protected.
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But beware--it still looks like you can't record ITV HD.
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Sorry, I should have been clearer. That's right, you can record to hard disk, but the expensive blu ray part of the box mentioned by the OP is unusable with ITV HD.
Isn't it? It would be good to have this confirmed or denied by an owner. It's a lot of cash for a half-working faciility. Grahamlthompson: do you have one of these, or can you confirm it from some other source? |
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Sorry, I should have been clearer. That's right, you can record to hard disk, but the expensive blu ray part of the box mentioned by the OP is unusable with ITV HD.
Isn't it? It would be good to have this confirmed or denied by an owner. It's a lot of cash for a half-working faciility. Grahamlthompson: do you have one of these, or can you confirm it from some other source? Panasonic were reported some time ago as being confident that they could persuade ITV to allow copy once of some of there HD transmissions. So far they appear to have failed miserably
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Thanks Graham.
I guess it's only going to be worse for Freeview HD viewers. (Hope that's not too much off topic.) |
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The Blue Ray drive can be used for archiving any recordings, the problem is that copy protected HD recordings may only be archived in downscaled SD 512p format but I believe this can be with lossless compression, so the Blu ray drive is still very helpfull as it can hold many hours of recording.
I am very pleased with Panny in general. |
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The Blue Ray drive can be used for archiving any recordings, the problem is that copy protected HD recordings may only be archived in downscaled SD 512p format but I believe this can be with lossless compression, so the Blu ray drive is still very helpfull as it can hold many hours of recording.
I am very pleased with Panny in general.
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Just checking that you were listening
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So basically this blu-ray dvd recorder :-
1. can only record from bbcHD (7 hrs of rubbish a day) or ITV HD (one prog every few days) - as it hasn't got hdmi input so you can't connect it to a sky HD box. ![]() 2. can't even record itvHD to blu-ray disks which must be it's primary function ![]() No wonder this crock of sh!t is already being heavily discounted. |
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Just checking that you were listening
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I though BBC HD was set to allow at least one external HD bit copy from the foxsat HDR?
Not that that helps with ITV, and probably not C4 when it materialises :/ |
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I though BBC HD was set to allow at least one external HD bit copy from the foxsat HDR?
Not that that helps with ITV, and probably not C4 when it materialises :/ |
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As this thread is about a blu ray recorder, I was thinking of the BBC's statement that at least one blu-ray copy is allowed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcintern...ection_up.html Other channels will probably be hobbled. I'd never buy this box if so. |
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