Exactly in this gap the DMR-BST fits Panasonic: It replaces the satellite receiver, BluRays can play and is also able to record on DVD and BD.
The menu navigation is also better than that of a comparable device that my parents (there are about 3 years between the two devices), some things are much more complicated than in the dissolved Technisat HD-S2 has been superseded, but the integration of eg natlose the library of public television is worth seeing.
Ingeniously simple recording, editing goes relatively fast (cut off the end of the beginning +, possibly even remove commercials). The disadvantage I found that is partially compressed too much when a film is burned to DVD - simply because the nominal playing time of the DVD was exceeded (NB: The material itself would at least then fitted on the DVD, though some tracks had been killed, but the device has rather just re-encoded). It would have been more sensible means of an algorithm á la "DVDShrink" only to reduce the Details moderate, rather than conduct a complete new encoding in a 1-pass process - well, Panasonic has the ICs or function blocks halt of the DVD recorders for coding the analog video, because it is continuing to use a slight this technique.
The recorder has unfortunately when recording of today's popular 16: 3 marked, although all with aspect ratio of 16: 9 material on DVDs a bug: The material is as 4 is 9 encoded. The result is then a DVD that allows the image horizontally compressed during playback on a system properly adjusted and black bars left and right. The DMR-BST 735 conceals the error, surprisingly the fact that he also 4: (so too broad) reproduces 9 Format: 3 DVDs at 16. 3 videos on the setting: To the right note, allowing the reproduction of 4 must funnily enough "16: 9" set. One could develop the opinion so thoroughly that here both the developer of the firmware as well as the developer of the user interface not really know what they're doing and the equipment ...
Only when demand from Amazon gave me a customer service representative reveal the way how to arrive at a properly mastered disc:
The recorded material before copying 1. You must first convert them to one of the formats SP or LP. Depending on how long the movie is and what capacity has the disc you should choose the format. This can be the recorder, so to speak "off-line" do after the evening TV viewing.
2. This results in a second file, which initially did not appear in the records menu. Only when you go to the converted film (to edit it, for example) to open a second list showing the original recording in DR mode and the converted file (SP or LP).
3. This converted file can now burn to DVD, but on one of the Minus-types (with the plus types of trick does not work because the DMR-BST 735 this mastert different!). Burning even takes only about 20 minutes. a 4x blank DVD-RW.
The reason this trick does not work with DVD + R and DVD + RW is the other way of the Recorder mastert this. The + formats a single title set is always generated. The --Formaten against its own title set is created for each recording. Since the Main Menu of the DVD still in 4: 3 is generated, the automatic conversion is also (incorrectly) with the 4: 3 made further identification. If the material is not re-encoded to burn, then it works, at least on the DVD-R and DVD-RW, because the format identifier is added to the separate Title Set right on the DVD.
BluRays contrast to burn from recorded material is easy, the discs can be played on any other BD player and thanks to the lush capacity of BluRay discs go about 4h movie in 720p the public on a disc. Several films together be packed on a disk. While no menu is possible, but it can be set up when the chapters were previously entered in the material on the HDD. HDTV knows, fortunately, not a 4: 3 anymore, thus it comes as well to no confusion.
At first I had massive trouble of video and audio transmission to my already 4-5 years old Phillipps-flat. After a complaint yielded no results but only the tip came to use another HDMI cable I came about to include've changed the HDMI settings. After I "turned down" the resolution to 1080i had and 24p activated does the image transfer without any problems - apparently the "Plug & Play" is in HDMI only a paper tiger.
Among the interfaces: The unit also has an AV connector, but here can only feed video signals for recording. Reason is the current AACS specification: devices that may have received an AACS approval after 2013 offer _not_ (!!!) analog video outputs more, only approved digital interfaces such as HDMI incl HDCP content protection are permitted.. Audio can be digital also issued separately from HDMI, here is a SP / DIF interface available. Two USB connectors are available, but which can be only read in films. If you want to store movies on an external drive, it must be formatted and then from the PC is no longer legible. Movies can only be internally or put the external disk, a backup could not be created. The only way for such a thing is the Export to DVD / BD, then the film remains on the internal disk proceed. An image can be to an external medium (HDD or flash drive) but not produce, there must be a "real" his slice.
Even SD card can be inserted directly. Two CI + interfaces are available, but I do not use. Since this interface but CI + is not an HD + module was installed directly ask the user restrictions on what I have learned is very strange: HD + broadcasts have an "expiration date" so that max. 90min delay must be started with the viewing, otherwise the data is no longer playable because of DRM. For this can be but forward and rewind. You can export these films probably will not also.
Two satellite lines can be connected, only when both are there or you have a so-called "cable system" go but at the same record + something else look. When a Technisat was built "small" single-cable solution, it could after all stations are used on the same area, so that one could look at any other SD-channels parallel in a German SD-station recording. Simultaneous viewing of a recording or a disc, it's not, at least as long as you (unnecessarily in my opinion) so torments the unit, not natively, but recorded with recoding. This option does not allow, under loss of image quality, the material with the data rate of the transmitter, but to put another re-encoded on disc.
The periodic recordings are usefully applied as the HD S2, as can be set weekly shots that always overwrite the old recording. This one has for example always the current TerraX on the plate without the old recordings must be sometime "down a peg." However, the recording will not overwrite this is not a week, but 8-day as far as I could see.
After about six months, I have my initial opinion that you can play recorded with the Panasonic DMR-BST 735 BluRay movies on any BD player take back: There seems to be a difference in the encoding of DVB-S2 broadcast material to give to BluRay / AVCHD specified material. I have on my Pioneer BDP-160 the problem that BluRay recordings of HD broadcasts not (neither on PC via TSRemux generated even from the DMR-BST 735 burned) can play clean: The picture is extremely choppy. Maybe it's a problem of the player, but the Panasonic recorder also makes at least the "quick" write out of HD Ausstralungen ultimately nothing more than a PC. Here I need to experiment again with other formats, possibly helping to convert the material into another HD Format.
