In VCR mode, a weak singing sound is heard throughout the picture and sound of the recorder is however excellent. Each recorded video can be easily trimmed in editing mode. Deleting passages there, one sees no transitions in the picture. Each video (later the DVD) can be labeled.
The DVD player plays almost all popular formats, also ribbed DVDs with AVI videos and recorded in NTSC format pieces of silver. The only drawback: The DVD player does not have any zoom function.
Those who receive television programs with a satellite receiver, can thus easily absorb to disk. However, its strengths plays the DVB-receiver section only when you connect the Panasonic EX 98 V at a DBV antenna. Then he invites all terristrisch receivable TV stations (both digital and analogue). Especially funzt the Guide Plus feature that allows you to program broadcasts. Who television pictures via satellite receiver receives (which clearly brings sharper images) must program the recording time manually.
The USB and SD slots must not expect too much you. Panasonic needs to ensure the copy of the manufacturer, therefore can not be copied from the hard drive on a SD or USB storage device.
Music, it is best to bring directly from a music CD to the hard drive. The Panasonic recorder has a Gracenote database (which can even upgrade!) And then imported automatically. Who imported MP3s from a USB stick or a USB hard drive, must have luck that his storage medium is detected. Theoretically unerstützt the Panasonic USB storage to 128 gigabytes. I have connected an Archos player with 60 GB to the Panasonic and it was no problem MP3 files loaded onto the hard drive. However, this information was received in the metafile lost (the performers were no longer showing, but only the title).
Pictures of Panasonic stores easily. The display of 7-megapixel JPGs, however slowly. Zooming is not possible - and to bring landscape shots in portrait formats, is a hakelige Angele inferiority.
The manual is very detailed and nested. A mystery still remains, what actual resolutions behind the various quality shortcuts (XP, SP, LP, EP, FR) stuck. Apparently, the data is copied to a Panasonic proprietary format on hard drive and from there then transformed into standard DVDs.
All in all, I give it 5 stars for the device. The Panasonic EX 98 V is just not a PC, in which many a simpler and faster would, but primarily a hard disk recorder with VHS and DVD player. The fact that he can also archive pictures, MPEG2 and MP3 files and play, is more of an adjunct. That one for good with the nested menu system and the logic of the remote control must be familiar, is the other side. The device can provide too much. According much is therefore required of the user to use skill.
