Panasonic DMR-ES46VS DVD Recorder

Pros: Loaded with features.

Cons: Unreliable when transferring home videos to DVD.

The Bottom Line: Buyer Beware. Reoccurring bugs while transferring home video tapes to DVD.

Review: I have purchased Panasonic electric consumer products for over 40 years...including an electric pencil sharpener, a back massager, personal radios, personal cassette recorders, cordless telephones, a dot-matrix printer, a dual-drive tape deck, 7 TV...

Pros: Quality recording equipment

Cons: Weak in the JPEG picture area.

The Bottom Line: If you can avoid the still picture functions you will have an excellent recorder/player for VCR and DVD.

Review: Panasonic DVD/VCR Progressive Scan
DMR ES46V

From what I can see there is not much to choose from in this class of equipment. This DVD/VCR has some good and bad points.

The remote control does not have a TV control code...

Pros: Nice to have just one machine under the TV.

Cons: Difficult to program. DVD section failed after only 15 months.

Review: I bought it at Sam's Club about 15 months ago for $300. At the time it was the best DVD recorder / VHS on the market. Programming it was never easy. Now it doesn't work because it can't read DVDs. The self-test at power up fails. There seem to be a...

Pros: HDMI,s-video,Component,composite,rf out+S-Video and Composite INPUTS NOT many feature that 1!Great upconverter!

Cons: Gray,Sounds like its playin disc even though it`s stopped..Pretty Difficult to understand..

Review: This Gray with black trim dvd-vcr plays all formats and Ive had it for a month now and it`s pretty difficult to understand.But I recorded vcr tape to dvd-r in high quality and it took more than 1 disk for1hr30m movie but its great.The player also...

Pros: Was great for transferring family DV tapes and camera SD card pictures to DVD.

Cons: No ATSC digital tuner which is a must today. Its lifespan is too short.

Review: Bought it at Sam's Club for $300 2years ago and now it will not recognize ANY dvd's to play nor record on..the laser head seeks back & forth for about 15 seconds then reports disk is not recognized when I know it is good. Tried with many good disks...