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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #210 in Home Theater
- Brand: Panasonic
- Model: DMR-BWT735EB
- Released on: 2013-05-22
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 3.94" h x
3.94" w x
3.94" l,
- Hard Disk: 1000GB
- Included Software: Y
Features
- Record With -R Discs
- Record with -RW Discs
- Record With RAM Discs
- Hard Disc
- Record With -R Discs
- Record with -RW Discs
- Record With RAM Discs
- Hard Disc
Product Description
The Panasonic DMRBWT735 is a fully fledged PVR with twin Freeview HD tuners built in. What's more, with a colossal 1TB of storage built-in, you can record up to 259 hours of high definition and 518 hours of standard definition programming. Blu-ray recording allows you to preserve your favourite programmes, movies and personal recordings at the highest quality possible, with full support for HD. DVD recording is also on hand for standard definition content. With support for a wide variety of disc formats including DVD-RAM, giving you the greatest flexibility in archiving your collection. Regardless of what you watch, whether it is TV, Blu-ray or DVD, the Panasonic DMRBWT735 will utilise its array of advanced processing technologies to give you the best picture possible. It's also fully capable of handling 3D Blu-rays along with the ability to convert normal 2D signals into 3D. The DMRBWT735 is no slouch when it comes to its internet offerings. The applications that are available range from popular video on demand services like BBC iPlayer, Netflix, Acetrax and YouTube to ones that cater for social media like Facebook & Twitter. Full DLNA support is also built-in, allowing you to access shared media on your PC, laptop or other DLNA connect devices. In addition to this, other DLNA complaint devices can also access recordings stored on the DMRBWT735 along with the ability to watch the live broadcast. With the DIGA player app (available for both Android and iOS), you can use your tablet or smartphone to watch the recorded content stored on the DMRBWT735, wirelessly. As well as being able to watch the live broadcast and control the unit. Taking this one step further you can also set recordings using the DIGA Player app in your home or while you're out (internet connection required).
Customer Reviews
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51 of 54 people found the following review helpful.
Quicksilver! The legend continues ...
By Brian Lee
Just got my new Panasonic BWT735 today - 24th May.Wow - that was fast - it was only supposed to arrive on 10th June!Well done Amazon - as usual!First impressions - unlike my BW780, BWT700 and BWT720 and all my other AV kit - it's not black - it's silver!Now I'm not actually a fan of silver kit - I prefer black, however as it is to be placed underneath an existing (black) BWT720 it's not a problem as the opening front is tinted black. I know I'm nit-picking already but some people may like to know these things.Another apparent problem on first switch-on was that it couldn't seem to update the programme guide programme name and descriptions after running through the tuning process. I may have confused it by running the tuning update twice, having noticed that it was getting poor signal quality values (4-6 instead of 9-10) being listed on the first run through and powered it off mid-process. The poor quality values were caused by an aerial lead problem which was soon fixed - but I may have then upset it by forcing a second tuning update manually. Then I noticed that the clock was not displaying any time so I checked the clock option (Function Menu - Others - Setup - Others - Clock). This was set to Off (why?) so I set it to On. Bingo - all the programme titles and descriptions immediately appeared! Fair enough - if it doesn't know what time and date it is it can't really decide what programmes are on - the odd thing is why was the clock set to off in the first place? I will put that down to my powering it off during the startup procedure - never had that problem with any of the previous boxes ...I will pinch the next few paragraphs from my BWT720 review from last year, as 90% or so of the information therein applies to the BWT735 as well, so it is still very relevant.I already have a BWT720, two BWT700's and a BW780 (previous models of the BWT735), so I was well aware what to expect from this device, however I was curious to see what improvements had been made over the previous models, and also what things had been downgraded or even removed - as had happened when changing from the BW780 to the BWT700. See my 4* reviews of the Panasonic BW780 and the BWT700 and my 5* review of the BWT720 for more details of those changes.(Some of these reviews may have been removed as the model is no longer for sale but you can still read them if you scroll to my name at the top of this review and click on "See all my reviews".)Overview of CapabilitiesFor those readers who have never heard of this type of machine before, basically theBWT735 is a virtually unique Freeview set-top box which has the following capabilities:1) It receives HD freeview so your expensive HD TV can do what you bought it for -show HD telly - without exhorbitant ongoing fees and forking out for new Blu-Ray discreleases as often. And it upscales SD Freeview to an excellent standard as well.2) It records HD Freeview to an inbuilt Hard Disk Drive (HDD) so you can watch theprograms whenever you like and as often as you like - in HD! (or upscaled SD of course).3) It has 2 tuners so you can record even more HD programs than you thought! And it can beplaying back a third recorded program whilst recording two new ones simultaneously.4) It has a built-in Blu-Ray Disc player so you can watch your BD's in excellent quality.(3-D Discs as well in the case of the BWT700, BWT720 and BWT735.)5) Its Blu-Ray Player is actually a DVD and Blu-Ray Disc Recorder so you can transferrecorded HD material from the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) to a Blu-Ray disc. Very quickly too in(the default) DR mode - like 6 hours' worth of HD material to a single (nominally 2-hour)BD in about 20 minutes! And play them back in full HD with no loss in quality! Magic!6) It can accept HD movies from a Panasonic or Sony camcorder (AVCHD standard) and copythem to the Hard Disk Drive and from there copy them to BD for distribution to friends (ifthey ever bother to watch them!). Again with no loss of quality.The above summary was largely lifted from my BW780 review and is still true for the BWT700, BWT720 and BWT735. (Note that the BW780 is not 3-D capable).By the way - I haven't just copied the manufacturer's claims for this device, I have actually tested and used all these capabilities on the previous boxes over the last 2 years plus, and I have also done a lot of initial testing on the 735 and found it to basically be very similar to the 720. If I find problems I will report them in this review or the attached comments, the same as I have done for all the previous models.First impressions of the BWT735Picture QualityPicture quality of HD Freeview received and/or recorded programs is excellent. I have tested the BWT735 connected to a Sony KDL-52W5500 2-D TV and a Sony KDL-55HX853 3-D TV and in both cases the picture quality is first rate. This is the same finding as for the BWT720, BWT700 and BW780 (2-D only in the case of the BW780) in fact, which all reviewers have found to be excellent.I use Avatar as my 3-D test disc and all people pressured(!) into watching it state that it is absolutely stunning and agree that it is ghosting and flicker-free. Note that this is partly due to the Sony TV but of course the BWT735 also has to be good as well.SD programs are also good quality, but of course they tend to look a little lacking once you have got used to the stunning detail available from well-produced HD programs.It is worth while noting that not all HD programs are produced to the same quality - BBC One HD and BBC 2 HD are usually very good (unless older material is being used), as is Channel 4 HD for the most part. ITV HD can be very good but occasionally they throw in an "upscaled" item which is clearly inferior to the best quality available. To be fair they usually admit it is upscaled in the program description.Recorded programs are initially recorded to the hard disk drive in the default DR mode. This means that they are direct copies of the original broadcast data streams, and are thus perfect copies - there is absolutely no loss in quality when recorded.Copying Recorded Prorammes from HDD to Blu-Ray DiscThe thing that really sets this family of boxes apart from most others is the capability of copying recorded programs from the HDD to a Blu-Ray Disc. The BW part of the name stands for Blu-ray Writer, the T denoting Terrestrial Freeview (as opposed to Satellite Freeview). So for all of you who have lost treasured recordings when a Hard Disk Drive failed - you now have a way of preserving things on Blu-Ray disc (or DVD for SD stuff) for "ever".Oh - and don't be fooled by other units that offer external Hard Disk Drive connection (as this one does!), you can't COPY stuff to the external hard drive, you can only MOVE it (i.e. it deletes the original), AND it won't allow a different machine to connect to it so you've still got major problems with hard drive failures. However if you have copied to Blu-Ray the discs will play on many modern Blu-Ray players, and there are conversion facilities available for full backwards compatibility with older Blu-Ray players as well.Copying to Blu-Ray disc is simple, switch to normal broadcast reception, load in a new BD-R disc and it will offer to format it. Select format (only 1 minute or less to format a new disc) then switch back to the HDD and select Copy then choose the items you want to copy. It will warn you if there is insufficient space on the BD and allows you to modify your choices before committing the copy. If necessary you can also edit adverts etc out from recorded programs to allow them to fit on a disc - just remember to do this on the hard disk BEFORE you copy to BD as the disk space is not made available for re-use if edited on the BD whereas on the HDD the space IS made available.This is one bit I really like - after starting the copy it gives you a continuous read-out of the progress of the copying task as it happening (or you can opt to switch back to watch another program - live or recorded as required). The read-out initially states that it will take 95 minutes or so to complete the copy - but after 1 or 2 percent of the disc is written it suddenly drops down to about 30 minutes, and eventually a full 6 hour's worth of HD video is copied in just over 20 minutes! Call me sad if you want but I do like this feature! Needless to say the copy is perfect quality - exactly the same as the broadcast original. And you can keep it for "ever"! (See my BWT700 4* review comment#35 for discussions on disc life.)It is worth while noting that there are copy restrictions placed by the programme producers on individual programmes. BBC HD and BBC One HD are usually unrestricted - you can make as many HD copies as you like of their programmes (so far ...). ITV HD and Channel 4 HD frequently have a 1-copy limit - you can copy a program once from the HDD to Blu-Ray in HD but no more copies are then allowed, although the program remains for viewing only on the HDD. They can be copied in SD however to a DVD as many times as you like. For this the files need converting to SD, and you can do this on-the-fly while copying (in which case it is real-time - i.e. a one-hour program actually takes an hour) or (my recommendation) you can convert the file overnight (say) in standby and copy it quickly (10 minutes or so for a 2-hour film) to DVD later.Note that the BWT735 will only record broadcast HD, there is no facility for copying professionally recorded Blu-Ray discs or other HD sources to the BWT735's HDD and back again - this would be illegal and is rigorously prevented by DRM protection. You can record AVCHD HD camcorder files to the HDD (albeit using a rather bizarre selection method but it basically works), and from then produce Blu-Ray discs of your holiday films to bore your friends.Other featuresThe BWT735 has inbuilt wireless internet capability, but does not have a fully-functioning Web browser (in common with most other "Smart" non-PC devices). Instead there is a collection of applications which includes YouTube and BBC iPlayer (see my 4* review of the BWT700 for more details - paragraph Pro's #7). BBC iPlayer can display HD programs - an episode of Top Gear I viewed on my BWT700 looked really good.There are other apps but I wouldn't rate many of them very highly as yet. Maybe in a fewmonths time there will be more useful ones. The basic problem is the lack of keyboard and real mouse input, typing in search criteria involves moving the cursor round a table and selecting individual characters - don't pension off your PC yet!I haven't yet had chance to try the remote programming of the BWT735 - the only advertised improvement of the 735 over the 720 - I will try this ASAP and put an update in the comments.One advantage of the BWT735 and the BWT720 over the BWT700 is that it comes with full wireless internet capability installed - a feature only included on the previous (+1) generation's top model BWT800 specification. The main other advantage is a larger hard disk capacity of the BWT800 (500 Gb versus 320Gb) but both the BWT720 and BWT735 trump that handsomely with a whopping 1Tb hard disk - enough for 272 hours of HD recording in DR mode!GotchasThere are some sillies with these machines that have caused problems - some so fundamental that people have packed them up and sent them back rather than try to sort them out!One is incorrect Aspect Ratio display of HD 4:3 material - see my 4* review of the BWT700 for details of how to fix this.Another is Aspect Ratio when copying HD widescreen material to DVD in SD. See comment #2 on my 4* review of the BWT700.Another is adverts in the Programme Guide. Amazingly Panasonic have largely fixed this but see my 4* review of the BWT700 (Cons #1) for a fix which should stop partial re-occurrence of the same problem. (Actually this looks to be a non-problem now with the 720 and the 735).Another is apparently bad Freeview reception, the most obvious sign of this being the box unable to pick up a reasonable number of TV channels, one user reported only being able to get 5 channels! This is actually quite easily cured in most cases - see comment #86 on my 4* review of the BWT700 or comment#31 on my BWT720 review.SummaryIf you don't have one of the earlier models then the rest of this review is probably not of interest to you. Suffice it to say that the BWT735 is a very capable device and well worth buying if you are looking for a high quality HD Freeview recorder - particularly if you also wish to keep some HD programmes on Blu-Ray disc as a permanent copy. The 1Tb hard disk is very generous, giving 272 hours of HD programme recording before requiring file housekeeping, and the quality of picture and sound is excellent in 2-D and 3-D. The reliability I have experienced from 7 of these devices over 30 months has been 100% apart from one minor fault on one cheap BD disc which caused a 10-minute loss of one film. This is out of over 300 discs written in 30 months. Despite the various minor niggles affecting only those users who may wish to record from other devices, I am going to go for 5 stars on this one!Comparison with earlier modelsIn the interests of trying to keep this review brief (see my other reviews for why this is funny!) I will try to concentrate on the rest of the differences between this new machine and the BWT700, as that is probably what a lot of people reading this part of the review would probably want to know, and for detailed capabilities of the machine have a read of my 4* review of the BWT700 and its comments, as a lot of the characteristics of the machines (particularly the niggles) only become apparent after some time.As I have remarked before, the manufacturer's blurb on these more complex machines are useful for telling you what the machine can do, but they are somewhat poor at telling you what the machine CAN'T do. For that you need these reviews! And the comments as they are frequently ongoing extensions of the review.Out of the box, the immediate difference between the BWT735 over the BWT700 is the (removable) sticker which proudly proclaims "HDD 1TB" with "684 hrs Recording (HM Mode)" as opposed to the "skype certified" and "Wireless LAN Ready" stickers on the BWT700. Mind you, I would brag about 684 Hrs recording capability too, however I always record in HD DR (the default and best quality and most flexible if you want to convert afterwards) recording mode, but even in this mode you get 272 hours of HD recording on the 1Tb Hard Disk Drive! This is more than double what you get on our 1Tb VM TiVo - this is due to the lower bit rates of Freeview HD compared with cable, but note that the compression algorithms are cleverer than many other systems so you still get stunning HD quality. In fact I reckon the HD quality is slightly better than our VM TiVo (which itself is very good).Remember that HD DR mode also gives you the capability of copying 6 hours' worth of HD from the Hard Disk to a standard (2 hour) Blu-Ray BD-R disc in just over 20 minutes. Now you may possibly get an inkling of why I now have several of these machines! The BW780 only had a 250Gb disk, the BWT700 a 320Gb disc and only on odd occasions have I run out of disc space on either of them due to the incomparable copy-to-BD capability of these machines. I don't expect to EVER run out of HDD space on the BWT735!One niggle which appears to be carried on from the BWT700 and is a downgrade from the BW780 is the lack of provision of a full RGB signal to the SCART input sockets. This means that if you are copying from an external device (I have a UK TiVo and Laserdisc etc) into the BWT720 then you can only choose composite or S-Video interface rather than RGB. I have no idea why they chose to do this and in some cases I know it cost them sales - people bought secondhand BW780's instead of a new BWT700 to have full RGB external input quality, however if you are not intending to copy from an external device in SD then this may not be an issue for you. Ditto the removal of the DV Firewire input port - present on the BW780, removed on the BWT700 and BWT720, but only an issue to those with camcorders (non-AVCHD) who need to connect to a disc-producing device.UPDATE 19/06/13 - just noticed another niggle - potentially a showstopper for those with older TV's!On all the older models there are two SCART sockets, one for input from other boxes, the other for output to a TV. This allowed users of the machine with TV's with no HDMI socket (e.g. TV's more than 5 years old) to view via SCART (in SD of course) for the time being while they saved up for a more modern TV to get the full benefit of HD. It was also useful when viewing older material as sometimes the upscaling to HD on older stuff can result in unpleasant artefacts like dot-crawl and smearing etc and it is better to view via SCART. This is no longer possible!!!!One immediately noticeable improvement over most of the earlier models is the inclusion of a live TV picture (and its sound) on selecting the Function Menu. It's quite generous in size as well - say about 25% of the screen, and then reverts to a smaller version in the new TV Guide. I mention this specifically as the earlier models didn't do this, instead carrying stupid adverts which did nothing except infuriate everyone! That was the main reason stated for people refusing to buy the BW780 (myself included to start with) and BWT700, however they missed out on a very good box because of it. I tell people how to suppress these adverts in my BW780 comments and my BWT700 review, but now it's not a problem at all with the BWT720 and the BWT735.The improved EPG display also allows more program slots to be listed across the screen, for example it now shows detail of programs between 18:00 and 20:30 whereas the earlier machines could only manage 18:00 to 19:30.The improved menus even stretch to the sound of the current TV program being heard even when in the "Timer Recordings" menu!One minor improvement of the BWT735 over all the previous models is that the display on the front now has the channel ID as words instead of a channel number. Or part words - i.e. "BBC ON" for BBC One! Or BBC One HD ... Yes - really! To be fair - just after you change channel it scrolls across to read "BBC ONE" (or "BBC ONE HD") in full before finally settling down to "BBC ON" again. OK - maybe an improvement thought I - but (e.g.) Channel 4 is displayed simply as CHANNE most of the time so it isn't really much help at all! To be fair, if you press the Info button the info scrolls again on the front display so even if you can't see the TV screen you still get told what the channel really is! For a few seconds anyway ...Hmmm - on further thought I think I prefer the channel numbers actually ...!!One little "funny" I had noticed with the 720 is that if you have the HDD selected as the current device then select "Playback Contents" and "Video Contents" it switches to playing back an iconised (say 10% normal size) picture - with sound - showing the start of the currently selected item (as on previous models). Quite handy in most cases.However if you have switched playback device to BD, this iconic playback no longer happens! It did do on the earlier models! No great loss really - but is it a software bug which may be corrected later? Time will tell. Panasonic do issue software improvements occasionally - the response time improved dramatically and various silly bugs were fixed on the BW780 via software downloads - and BBC iPlayer magically appeared (in HD no less) after a software download to my BWT700 so these things do happen!But - so far - after 12 months - the above lack of iconic playback of BD recordings is still absent on the BWT720 - and appears to be still absent on the BWT735. Not really a big problem - in fact some users prefer it as sometimes the iconic playback volume can be very loud compared with the programme currently tuned so it can be annoying ...To all users of the previous boxes - if you are happy with the BWT700 then you will be over the moon with the BWT720 and the BWT735). They have fixed many of the niggles (but not the changes which made input SD recording worse) and that fantastic disk space means you can record to your heart's content while on holiday and still be confident you won't run out of disk space! I think it's terrific! Keep your other machine as well for Xmas etc when there's loads on and you need more than 2 tuners. Sell off any dumb Blu-Ray players to finance it, keep your BWxxxx and enjoy playing any of your recorded BD's in multiple rooms!It really is Super! Enjoy!Oh - and check out any comments as no doubt there will be technical questions and answers galore as on previous blogs ...Note that my review for the BWT720 contains an index for the technical problems solved in the 400+ comments in the first few comments of my BWT720 review (Comments 2, 4 and 6 to be precise).
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.A stunning machine!
By Enthusiast
I've been very happy with my Freesat Panasonic blu-ray recorder, now sadly unavailable; so when the time came to junk the two older recorders and buy another, this was clearly the one to get...So how does it compare with the Freesat box?Generally, it's pretty similar, with some STUNNING differences. Program guide is greatly improved - it's now possible to see a description AFTER a program's been recorded, and screen layout is much better. Moving between screens/options seems faster, the terabyte of storage is great; 3D playback is possible, wi-fi is built-in - overall this seems a really worthwhile upgrade.And the STUNNING bit?The built-in wi-fi allows you to communicate remotely, via a neat Panasonic app. for iPhone or iPad... this means you can set up recordings remotely, and even watch recorded programmes on your iPad! Lying in bed this morning I spotted a couple of programmes in the tv listings, and - without getting up! - set them to record. And then, encouraged by this, watched some previously recorded material. It was very, very impressive!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.brilliant machine
By A. Goodenough
everything it says in the advertWould highly recomend this machine, it is one of the best I have ever had
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