PANASONIC DMR-HWT250EB Freeview Play HD Recorder - 1 TB

Easy to use with excellent picture and sound. Very helpful to have the facility to migrate HD recordings to an external drive in order to free up space on the internal drive.

Nothing.

Catchup is invaluable

Bit slow on the guide

So easy to set up, its a neat snall unit. I love that I can delete programmes at tge same time as it is recording something else.

When you want information about a programne it is in really small print

The technical quality is actually very good. Will back up to a separate hard drive.

Difficult to use. Poor manual. I thought it had a search facility but I can't find it and I don't think it has one. The TV guide is difficult and slow to use. The Humax recorders, at least in the past, have been much more user friendly. (Note: I havn't...

It's small.

The sound through the box wows and the picture colour it produces is unnatural.

Nothing special.

Programme guide and information are very slow and unreliable. Even on a cable internet connection. Performs much worse than 12 year old Sony it replaced. Built in Amazon app has far less functionality than Amazon fire stick, so cannot dispense with...

Does everything i want and more. Netflix is quicker than Virgin.

Remote control volume and power buttons don't work with our Tv. Recorded programmes start to play before you've selected them.

Simple to use

No

netflix button

asks for a channel update daily, usually resulting in the hd channels vanishing and reappearing after another update