Panasonic DMR XS380 - Freesat+ HD PVR

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Looks good, but no reviews yet. The previous one XS350 was accused of being a bit slow and clumpy to use. Is the new one improved, or have they just added other bells and whistles?

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Panasonic have been doing PVRs for TV/freeview and freesat easily as long as Humax.

The Panny has a built in DLNA Sever, will download from your video camera, records from an external source (eg. sky box) and has full DVD playback & record.

It looks like the most credible alternative to the Humax, which is why I'm wondering about it. We've got an old Pioneer PVR/DVD which has done well, but we're moving into a new house which is wired for HDMI and Ethernet rather than scart, so it's possibly time to get a new set up.

I'm also considering a Marantz SR6003 AV Receiver - which gives us full surround sound and twin HDMI out, so can feed our lounge which is wired for tv + projector + speakers.

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jackal said:

i don't want to download form a video camera

i woudl rather take the humax at less than half teh price and with way more disk space to boot

I didn't know I was buying it for you. ;-)

The hard disk size is irrelevant - the data encoding and compression quality have a bigger impact (and no, I don't know which is the better, that's why I'm asking).

Being able to play back recordings on any TV in the house sounds quite a useful feature, and the ability to archive things off to disk and/or share them with friends is also helpful. Does the Humax have a mechanism for saving content off disk?