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Panasonic DMR-BWT955GL (page 2 of 2)
BrianyPerth
- 4 reviews
- 3 likes
Can't live without it
Love the slick style and protection of the DVD player opening mechanism. Recording quality great with lots of options. Very reliable unit and it has NETFLIX
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IsaacCairns
- 4 reviews
- 9 likes
Value for money, easy to use, 4K upscale
Wow this one exceeds my old Panasonic by far (DMR-BW880). Triple HD Tuner, 2TB hard drive which I can record 1000+ hours, 4K upscale, blu-ray recorder and media player. Record up to 3 channels and watch a disc at same time. Programming is easy with preview box in EPG. A must have for an all one one device.
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maggiec
- 5 reviews
- 3 likes
It's early days but so far excellent.
We bought this a week ago so it's early days. Just some issues and maybe another reviewer can help me out. When we set a program to record, even if we don't choose the "Keyword" option, it records every repeat and every showing on every channel eg, ABC1, ABC2, etc. so you end up with 10 recordings. Also, maybe someone can tell me how to add time to the recording because a movie just squeaked in the other day and we got no credits. But apart from that I find it easy to navigate and a huge improvement on the last box we had which was a Topfield. When I've learned to drive it properly I'll report back. :)
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emaleeSydney
- 6 reviews
- 13 likes
- Verified purchase
Disappointed
I purchased this for Christmas Dec 2015 from JB HIFI on special for $598. I started using it January 2016. I had been looking for a replacement pvr as I had an old Panasonic model that only recorded 1 program. Wanted an all in one blu ray & pvr. Big mistake.
Next time I will be buying separate units. This is essentially an all in one yet separate unit. Really disappointed. No more Panasonic for me unfortunately.
CONS
-Cannot play a bluray disc & record tv at the same time. It is essentially two separate units in one and that is just ridi...Read more
culous. -Cannot save recorded programs to usb hdd. -EPG data updating is slowly becoming more unstable and problematic e.g "Series information is not available for the next 7 days" yet I'm only looking four days in advance. Channel 9 is particularly bad. My sister has no issue with this problem with her Humax using the same search.
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twitchsydney
- Verified purchase
Bells & whistles
Looks pretty, does what it does within it's capabilities.
Has an on/off switch.
Records programmes.
Tells the time & connects to the Internet.
I like the dvd tray, it goes in and out at command.
You can watch stuff anytime you like.
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Colin52Perth, WA
- 28 reviews
- 3 likes
Perfection and can use ext drives to expand teh storage
Been using Panasonic recorders since 2003. The first was the DMR-E30 with no internal hard drive then the EH60, EH55, EX75, the 720 BD twin tuner and now this one with 3 tuners to record 3 channels at eh same time.
Must go into setup, basic and set the chapter points to off which I strongly advise. That way one can edit out ads and create your own chapter points or set it to auto or a chapter point every 5 mins.
The USB option you'll need to go into usb management to set the drive up to move any video from the internal hard drive of the r...Read more
ecorder to the ext drive. I strongly recommend WD USB3 2TB Element drives which are about the only ext USB3 that connect 100% of the time to the PC or anything else. This recorder will play MP4, MKV, AVI's etc.... Many I know in the DVD authoring world and blu ray authoring will use these panny recorders for editing as they are that powerful.2 comments
For those that have the older model Panasonic recorders and move up to the latest model you can use your older Panny remote controllers which is something I do quite a bit.
I mainly use my EX75 remot... Read more
e controller on the last two Panny recorders as the layout is far easier to see how to do things with. The latest ones have the better program guide for the week and can set the recorder to record on certain words so if you like cricket anything with the word cricket will be recorded.Similar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
weng393
- 17 reviews
- 52 likes
This is really impressive
I bought this PVR a few days ago (13th December 2015). Wow .. this is impressive.
By the way, I also own another Panasonic PVR (DMR-BWT720GL purchased in October 2012 which is still going strong and is also an excellent PVR). I also once owned an LG PVR (and you can read my review of that dismal product which thankfully died many years ago).
For this review, I'm going to compare this new Panasonic (DMR-BWT955GL) against the 3 year old Panasonic (DMR-BWT720GL).
Things that are better:
1) Triple tuner. If you think this is only for TV...Read more
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Questions & Answers
Lindsayasked
Our recorder started jumping around slightly recently. We have show we have recorded for our daughter (kids TV) and we edit out the adverts. We noticed about a month ago, that playing these editted shows, it would skip a couple of seconds each side of the edit.
Then tonight, the image froze, the audio continued for a bit, and then then the whole thing locked up.Using the remote, and turning it off, it became stuck in 'Please Wait' and so we reset it at the wall for a minute.
Plugging it back in, it has once again gotten stuck in the 'Please Wait'
Looking for assistance on how to resolve if possible.
Thank you.
1 answer
Panasonic Australia C.Panasonic
Hi Lindsay, sorry but the product has developed a fault. Please contact our customer service team on 132600 for details on your nearest service agent.
RobCasked
Hi I have a Panasonic DMR-BWT955 and it has no sound or picture output what so ever. It seems to be doing everything else ok, recording playing dvd etc but no vision. I have tried several HDMI cables.
It has AV on the units display screen. It has had a week signal pixilating on and off watching TV if we stomped on the floor next to the unit it would clear up.. Any ideas? Rob. After some more time on this problem I have discovered its not the Blue Ray that's the problem its my Panasonic TH-P50VT20A TV, none of the 4 HDMI ports are working...
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Panasonic Australia C.Panasonic
Hi Rob, thanks for the question and glad you got to the bottom of the issue being the TV. Sorry to hear that has developed a fault.
Craig S.asked
Hi my panisonic recorder l only hear the sound when l push the 1x3 button whys that
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Panasonic Australia C.Panasonic
Hi Craig, sorry what sound are you referring to?
I only hear the sounds on my disc when the previews are playing when the main movie comes on theres no sound
Panasonic Australia C.Panasonic
Hi Craig, please give our customer service team a call on 132600 for further assistance so we can try troubleshooting over the phone with you.
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Colin52
One flaw is that he tray for DVD/Blu Ray is very flimsy and wouldn't take much to break.
Then they moved to China and plastic trays which were ok but this latest one has the weakest tray of a recording unit I have ever seen. The unit can record key words so type in cricket and any program with cricket in it will be recorded. It will do series recordings to. The 2TB internal drive is great and one can expand to USB ext drives where it moves anything recorded on the internal drive to the ext drive. I connected it up to the PC to see if it could see it in Windows and it couldn't. Being in IT I have some ideas to get that to be seen in Windows 7 or higher and currently looking into that. Recording Foxtel off the T-Box is slightly better than the previous dual tuner BD panny recorder I had. I have both of these set up on the one tv set and can set the remote to a different channel so if I press record on one they don't bother record the same channel. So if effect have 5 tuners recording on the one tv set. To have two or more recorders on the one aerial cable you'll need loop back cables. The main TV set I have another one of these treble panny recorders. Foxtel T-Box unit I use the RCA(Composite(Yellow/red/white)) cables to connect from the Foxtel box to the panny recorder video in for AV(RCA) and then switch to AV channel via the remote so that I can record foxtel. One thing I've noted with the new model is it no longer allows you to change the thumbnail of the image of the recording which is a pain. Will have to get used to that feature missing. Might dump the video across to the old recorder and alter it there.In the early years of these they were made in Japan with a steel tray.
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