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PoisonJam

9:24 AM on 1 March, 2010

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Surely this is a bit late to the party, not to mention very expensive?!

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lifethroughalens

10:43 AM on 1 March, 2010

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How much?! This sort of tech should be no more than circa £150. A VHS player and a recordable DVD drive - both cheap as chips, there's no justification for the costs. 7/10 for value - Really TR?!

I was actually looking for one of these the other day for my nan, I didn't know they made them any more. However, at that price she'll have to make do :)

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John McLean

11:16 AM on 1 March, 2010

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@PoisonJam - couldn't agree more. What is this, 2001? Does anyone (particularly anyone who might spend £300 on a box to go under their TV) still have / use VHS tapes?

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DannyP

1:51 PM on 1 March, 2010

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Panasonic wouldn't keep launching them if there wasn't a demand for them. Toshiba also make them and told us recently that there's still a surpringly high demand for VHS combi products like this, although it's obviously dwindling.

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PoisonJam

7:16 PM on 1 March, 2010

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@ Danny P - But what does this actually add? How many more features can you add to old and prehistoric technology combined? :) I'm sure the first model did the exact same job. Surely you buy this, move all your videos to DVD, take them to the skip and then the other half of the unit is completely redundant?

Seems like the perfect item to rent/loan or buy second hand and then sell on again. But if you have VHS tapes you probably have a VHS player, which you could hook up to a DVD Recorder costing half the price (or with a HDD like you mention) then bin the VHS deck.

I guess if you want to be picky you could go into VHS copyright issues for bought tapes...

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AndyR

9:49 PM on 1 March, 2010

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You should visit Australia. The still have Video rental stores! I walked into one when travelling as I couldn't beleive my eyes, rows and rows and rows of VHS rentals. Didn't even think the movie studios still released on VHS!

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It’s still hard to believe that VHS is still going strong in 2010, but the mere existence of this combi is proof that there’s a lingering demand for it. And the DMR-EZ49V is a great example of how to integrate ageing tape tech with modern digital recording, thanks to its bulging feature list and an abundance of slick recording/editing features, even without a built-in hard-disk. It’s simple to copy cassettes to DVD and the results are impressive, provided your tapes are in good nick. What’s more, the operating system is infused with the company’s usual user-friendliness, plus DVD and Freeview picture quality is top-notch, especially when you employ the 1080p upscaling. But this deck shares the same flaws as Panasonic’s DMR-EX83. The EPG and onscreen digital TV banners need a dramatic rethink, while the bigger issues of a single Freeview tuner and incompatibility with the incoming Freeview HD service might force some to put away their wallets, particularly at this price. But if you need a VHS/DVD solution right now, then you won’t find many better.

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Reviewed by Danny Phillips

01 March 2010

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£299.99

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