Our Overall Score:
9/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our PANASONIC DMR-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with 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-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with Freeview HD Recorder is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Blu-ray and DVD players category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £289
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like PANASONIC DMR-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with 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 Blu-ray and DVD players category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of PANASONIC DMR-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with Freeview HD Recorder
PANASONIC DMR-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with Freeview HD Recorder scores 8.1/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Blu-ray and DVD players. 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-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with 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-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with 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 Blu-ray and DVD players, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Blu-ray and DVD players? 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-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with Freeview HD Recorder scores 9.5/10 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 Blu-ray and DVD players category was £479, whilst the cheapest we found was £19.99 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-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with 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 Blu-ray and DVD players category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Blu-ray and DVD players category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for PANASONIC DMR-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with Freeview HD Recorder.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Blu-ray and DVD players category. This was £143.25 from the 32 products we found in that category. So PANASONIC DMR-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with Freeview HD Recorder actually comes in above average at £289.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £479 and the least expensive, which was £19.99. In total we found that of the 32, 6 were more expensive and 25 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as PANASONIC DMR-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with 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-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with 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.
Prices of products from Panasonic and in the Blu-ray and DVD players 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 Blu-ray and DVD players category.
For this we found that the average price was £207.5, making PANASONIC DMR-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with Freeview HD Recorder at £289 actually above average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £479 with the lowest priced item being £29. In total there were 4 items that were more expensive and 7 that was less expensive.
Reviews of PANASONIC DMR-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with Freeview HD Recorder
PANASONIC DMR-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with Freeview HD Recorder scores 9.3/10 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-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with Freeview HD Recorder is.
Overall score
PANASONIC DMR-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with Freeview HD Recorder scores 9/10 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-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with Freeview HD Recorder by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: PANASONIC DMR-EX97EB-K DVD Recorder with Freeview HD Recorder
- Brand: Panasonic
- Model Number: DMREX97EBK
- Plays DVDsRecords to HDDUp to 258 hours of SD / 129 hours HD recordingEthernet
- EAN: 5025232832552
- Description: Top features:- Record your favourite Freeview HD channels so you never miss a show- Your favourite series at the touch of a button with Series Recording- Playback through USB to access your own multimedia- Upscale normal definition to HD for added clarity and depthRecord your favourite Freeview HD channelsWith two Freeview HD tuners built in, the Panasonic EX97 can record two different programmes at once in brilliant HD quality. So there’s no need to worry about missing your second favourite program when your favourite just about takes precedent on a Saturday night.Keep your blockbusters recorded for as long as you like – with up to 129 hours of HD recording onto the HDD at your fingertips, you won’t need to be deleting old things to make room for new anytime soon. Plus you can back up your recordings onto a recordable disc to keep safe.Your favourite series at the touch of a buttonAutomatic entertainment at its finest – set the series you watch week in week out to record automatically by registering them with the Series Recording function. This way, they are effortlessly stored each time they are broadcast. This eliminates the possibility of forgetting to record each program and lets you watch the series at the time that suits you.Playback through USBDirectly access content stored on external hard disk drives, such as home movies you may have recorded yourself without the need for a PC – saving you time and hassle when everyone’s gathered around the box.Upscale normal definition to HDYou can significantly enrich the quality of what you are watching with the Panasonic DMR-EX97EB-K, which allows for SD format data to be upscaled to a high definition quality. Watch the same shows and movies, but with an added clarity and depth that only comes from high definition viewing.Don’t forget your HDMI cablesCheck out our range of HDMI cables to connect your input devices and to make sure your new TV has a perfect picture with improved transfer speeds. Look out for the Sandstrom Silver Series HDMI cables, which have a lifetime warranty.Please note: This product does not record Freeview HD straight to disc. Discs can only be recorded from content on the hard drive.
- Product ID: 3428730001
