Panasonic DMR-ES30VS DVD Recorder / VCR Combo

The Bottom Line: The Panasonic DMR-ES30VS is a very impressive DVD/VCR recorder. I like its high feature content, build quality, excellent performance...

Review: Do you want both DVD recorder and a VCR for less than $300? The Panasonic DMR-ES30VS is one of them. In addition to recording to DVD-RAM discs, it also records to DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+R. And you can get it for less than $290, shipping and taxes...

The Bottom Line: All machines at this price have strengths & limits. The DMR-ES30VS is well-made and user friendly. Its strength is dubbing, but it's an adequate VHS player, fine DVD player too.

Review: Below is my original review, in 3/05, after only a few weeks of testing and use. I'm much less enthusiastic a year and change later, having a better appreciation now for some of the reviews I've read of similar machines, which seem to deteriorate...

The Bottom Line: It does what it is supposed to do with great ease.

Review: A couple months ago my wife said that I had to do something with the ton of VHS tapes sitting in the garage. Any time I get an opportunity to buy a new toy I jump on it, particularly since my VHS deck had died and my DVD player was not far behind...

The Bottom Line: If you're searching for a DVD Recorder/VCR combo, then buy the Panasonic DMRES30V and your search will be over!

Review: I have had this unit for about 2 months now and I use it almost every day recording stuff off my DVR. This combo unit has serviced me better than I imagined for I have had other DVD recorders and they all performed well under expectations (and my...

Review: This is the second DVD recorder I tried and it is so perfect.

I first tried a JVC model. The manual wasn't very detailed for assisting with setup but it wasn't difficult to finally copy from VHS to DVD. Unfortunately, it started acting up...

Review: Review updated by author, 09 Mar 07
I was archiving old VHS tapes and the tape transport problems were caused by the label of a VHS tape falling from the cassette into the VCR mechanism. Apologies to Panasonic, now I have no real cons for this...

Review: After purchasing the JVC DR-MV1s---and returning it back to BestBuy totaling disgusted---I exchanged it for this one!! I LOVE IT!! It is very simple to operate--and has great tech support. The VHS tapes onto DVD is actually a little better quality...

Review: Once I got the machine set up...only 17 pages, I tried to tackle the "one touch" transfer of VHS tapes to DVD disc.
The instructions are on page 57 and once you get the basic stuff setup it is a one touch operation. I burned a disc and took it...

Review: Purchased this machine five weeks ago and since have burned 25 old tapes to DVD. This is the first time I have bought Panasonic and I am very impressed at the quality and especially how simple they have made it with one touch recording. The picture...

Review: After picking up a Samsung at Bestbuy, I got it home, hooked it up, only to find it wouldn't work! It simply kept giving me an error message and would stop recording after about 15 seconds. I thought maybe it was because I was using "verbatim" blank...