Panasonic DMR E55 Dvd Recorder?

[Peter Mason]

Has anybody any information on this new DvD Recorder. How does it
compare with the PIONEER DVR 310?

I understand it has PAL/NTSC Progressive Scan. Has anybody seen
pictures shown in PAL Progressive on a large Display?

Any information will be much appreciated.
Regards,
Peter Mason

[Han]

> Has anybody any information on this new DvD Recorder. How does it
> compare with the PIONEER DVR 310?

I have one, not sure how it compares to the 310 but IMO it's a great
unit. What kind of other info are you after, if you haven't already
purchased one or the other ;)

> I understand it has PAL/NTSC Progressive Scan. Has anybody seen
> pictures shown in PAL Progressive on a large Display?

Yes and it's quite good. Flicking between interlaced and progressive is
only available through the menu, so it's somewhat more difficult to see
the differences easily (the player it replaced had a physical switch)

The navigational menu is very good as are the menus it creates on
dvd-rs, erasing clips and finalising discs is quite quick too. My only
gripes are the time it takes to come on from standby, and that it takes
quite long to recognise any type of media, be it ram, dvd-r or ordinary
dvds. I'm not sure if that's common or not amongst other Panasonics or
recorders though.

HTH

Cheers