Our Overall Score:
8.5/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Set top boxes category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £169.99
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Panasonic or alternative products in the Set top boxes category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder
PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder scores 8.9/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Set top boxes. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Set top boxes, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Set top boxes? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder scores 8.4/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Set top boxes category was £219.99, whilst the cheapest we found was £10.00 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Set top boxes category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Set top boxes category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Set top boxes category. This was £88.60 from the 28 products we found in that category. So PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder actually comes in above average at £169.99.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £219.99 and the least expensive, which was £10.00. In total we found that of the 28, 5 were more expensive and 22 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder.
Prices of products from Panasonic
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Panasonic. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Panasonic, which was £333.17 of the 161 products we found. So PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Panasonic was £17.99 with the most expensive coming in at £3799.00.
Prices of products from Panasonic and in the Set top boxes category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Panasonic that sit specifically within the Set top boxes category.
For this we found that the average price was £196.33, making PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder at £169.99 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £219.00 with the lowest priced item being £169.99. In total there were 2 items that were more expensive and 0 that was less expensive.
Reviews of PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder
PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder scores 8.1/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder is.
Overall score
PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder scores 8.5/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Panasonic so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: PANASONIC DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Recorder
- Brand: Panasonic
- Model Number: DMRHWT130EB
- Up to 256 hours SD & 129 hours HD recordingWiFi via adapterPause / rewind / record live TVAccess content on NetflixBBC iPlayer
- EAN: 5025232737901
- Description: Double visionThe Panasonic DMR-HWT130EB Freeview+ HD Smart Digital TV Recorder gives you fantastic viewing flexibility.With its integrated twin HD tuners, you can record two HD programmes at the same time, so you’re always up to date with everything you want to watch. Thanks to Panasonic’s Long record feature, you’ll be able to record up to 129 hours of high definition content. Series Link lets you record a whole series automatically, so you’ll never forget to record your favourite show.Add another dimension to your recordingsIncorporating sophisticated technology, the Panasonic D-MRHWT130E-B HD Smart Set Top Box is able to convert material recorded in 2D into exciting 3D if you’re connected to a 3D TV.Smart television at homeYou’ll always find something to watch on the DMR-HWT130-EB. BBC iPlayer offers a selection of catch-up TV on-demand so it’s easy to watch programmes you’ve missed, while Netflix has plenty of films and boxsets for the whole family.It’s simple to access these services, you can either connect to your home network via Ethernet or puchase a WiFi adapter.A DLNA feature lets you access other DLNA devices around your home to stream videos and music or play back digital photos, so you can enjoy content libraries from DLNA-compatible devices on a large, high-resolution screen.
- Product ID: 743940654
