Throw out your VCR and go and pick-up an HS2
Written: Feb 21 '03
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Pros: Better than VHS anyday and tons of features
Cons: Need to learn the features, but well worth the investment
The Bottom Line: I'll say it again, throw out your VCR and go and pick-up an HS2...
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| jjturner's Full Review: Panasonic DMR-HS2 (40 GB) DVD Recorder |
For those of you out there still using VHS to record reruns of MARRIED WITH CHILDREN or use tape based camcorders to shoot your movies, you really need to catch up on home entertainment. I just bought the Panasonic DMR-HS2 and now I am officially scrapping my VCR. I have spent hours recording TV shows that I would miss and then watch them the next day or years later, but the quality deteriorated and I have no good archived stuff. Also, no more rigging 2 VCR's together to make copies for friends.
So the HS2 - here's the deal. First off, the DVD/RAM technology makes all the VCR dilemmas a thing of the past. It’s got a 40GB hard drive, can use RAM and cheap record once R DVD's. Now this is cool too - I can plug-in my memory card into the HS2 and burn copies of pictures from my digital camera into a video that I just shot, by using the unit's editing features – while I'm editing the video...But back to recording TV shows, which personally, I've enjoyed doing for years. For people like me its the units record and watch at the same time feature that is cool. Pretty much I can record and playback the same program at the same time, i.e., you can watch the beginning of a show while the end is recording. And like TIVO - which I love, but see its demise coming with products like this - you can record TV shows to the hard drive using VCR Plus codes or by setting the schedule yourself, even a month in advance.
In a word, throw out your VCR and go and pick-up an HS2.
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Amount Paid (US$): 799
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