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title: "Panasonic DMR-ES25S DVD Recorder with DV Input with HDMI and SD Card Slot"
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# DVD-RAM rewritable support 720p/1080i up-conversion HDMI + FireWire + SD slot Panasonic DMR-ES25S DVD Recorder with DV Input with HDMI and SD Card Slot

**Brand:** panasonic
**Price:** KSh307208
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🎬 Elevate your home media game — record, relive, and rewind like a pro!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Panasonic DMR-ES25S DVD Recorder with DV Input with HDMI and SD Card Slot by panasonic
- **How much does it cost?** KSh307208 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- panasonic enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted panasonic brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Plug & Play Simplicity:** Easy setup with multiple inputs including FireWire for direct camcorder dubbing and SD card slot for photo slideshows.
- • **Seamless Multi-Tasking:** Watch recorded shows while recording live TV with Time Slip’s Chasing Playback & Simultaneous Record & Play.
- • **Crystal-Clear Upscaling:** Transforms standard DVDs to near HD 720p/1080i for stunning visuals on your HDTV.
- • **Smart Editing & Navigation:** Non-linear editing, chapter marking, and rapid random access on DVD-RAM for effortless content control.
- • **Ultimate Recording Flexibility:** Supports DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, and DVD-RAM discs for archival or rewritable convenience.

## Overview

The Panasonic DMR-ES25S is a slim, versatile DVD recorder/player that up-converts DVDs to near HD quality (720p/1080i), supports a wide range of recordable DVD formats including rewritable DVD-RAM, and features advanced recording modes with Time Slip technology. It offers multiple connectivity options such as HDMI, FireWire, and an SD card slot, enabling easy recording from TV or camcorders and playback of photos and music. Ideal for millennials seeking a reliable, multi-functional media hub to archive, edit, and enjoy their digital and analog content with professional-grade flexibility.

## Description

Product Description Panasonic, DVD Recorder, DV Input, HDMI, SD Card Slot desertcart.com Record your home movies and your favorite TV programs easily to DVD disc with the Panasonic DMR-ES25S progressive scan recorder/player, which provides ultimate flexibility in recording media options. It also includes an HDMI digital audio/video output, which can "up-convert" standard DVD movie discs to near HD resolution. Where standard DVD players (even progressive scan models) provide just 480 lines of resolution, the DMR-ES25S up-converts the picture up to 720p and 1080i high-def video formats--taking full advantage of your HD television's sparkling resolution. (Note that your TV must have an HDMI connection; HDMI cable not included.) Choose from a full spectrum of recordable DVD media--write-once DVD+R and DVD-R discs or rewritable DVD-RW/+RW and DVD-RAM discs. (For temporary storage, such as your favorite weekly shows, DVD-RAM discs are a great choice as they can be rewritten more times than DVD-RW/+RW discs.) It's easy to record TV programming with the built-in analog TV tuner with RF pass-through and seven-day TV Guide electronic programming guide. In addition to standard DVD movie and CD audio discs and its compatible recordable formats, the DMR-ES25S can play back CD-R/RW, dual layer DVD-R/+R, and VCD disc formats as well as JPEG, and MP3 digital formats. You can also view individual images and photo slideshows using the integrated Secure Digital (SD) memory card slot (compatible with JPEG and TIFF file formats). Panasonic's Time Slip function consists of two features designed to give you added flexibility and control when making DVD recordings: Chasing Playback and Simultaneous Record & Play. With Chasing Playback, you don't have to wait for an entire program to be recorded before watching it from beginning to end. This feature allows you to watch a program that's currently being recorded from any point that's already been recorded--while continuing to record the live program in progress. Simultaneous Record & Play allows you to record a program onto a disc while simultaneously watching any other program that's previously been recorded on the same disc. You can set your recorder to one of five different recording speeds, each varying in recording quality and length. EP mode yields the most recording time, LP & SP modes provide less recording time with higher quality recording, and XP mode gives you the highest quality recording. There's also the FR (Flexible Recording) mode that lets you record with the best picture quality possible for the recording time and remaining space on the disc. The Direct Navigator feature makes it easy to find a previously recorded program on a disc. A list of recording dates, times, channels and (user-entered) titles are shown on screen. With the Playlist Playback function, you can perform simple non-linear video editing using, such as rearranging the order of scenes, skipping over unwanted scenes, or copying selections Jump directly to any spot on a disc and begin playback or recording right away with the Rapid Random Access function when using DVD-RAM discs. Even if there is no sequential area of empty space available, this DVD recorder can record data on available space throughout the rest of the disc. You will also avoid searching for a blank spot to start recording, or accidentally recording over desired material. Enjoy a great picture on you flat screen LCD or plasma HDTV using the component video output, and immersive surround sound via the optical digital audio output for Dolby Digital and DTS home theater effects. It also offers a FireWire port (also known as IEEE1394 or i.Link) for direct connection to a digital video camcorder, enabling you to download footage directly to disc. The full lineup of video and audio connections includes: RF Input: 1 Composite video/audio input: 2 (1 front) Composite video/audio output: 1 S-Video input: 2 (1 front) S-Video output: 1 Component video output: 1 HDMI audio/video output: 1 Digital audio output: 1 optical Tech Talk HDMI is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV--all over a single cable. It provides up to a 5 GB per second bandwidth for transmitting pure digital video and audio signals with no degradation in the transfer. It can carry up to eight discrete audio channels, making it compatible with 7.1-channel surround sound systems. Signals are encrypted with HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) to prevent recording. HDMI is fully backward-compatible with most DVI connections . Component video (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound. High Definition Formats: The most common high-def (HD) video format is 720p, which displays video at 720 vertical by 1280 horizontal pixels. The "p" denotes that it is progressive scan, meaning that all video lines are filled at the same time. The 1080i format displays video at 1080 vertical by 1920 horizontal pixels, and the "i" means that it is interlaced (the old-school way of presenting video where the screen scans the odd-numbered video lines first, then the even-numbered lines). The 1080p format has the same pixel resolution as 1080i, but it is a progressive scan format and thus has a constant vertical resolution of 1080 lines. What's in the Box DVD recorder/player, remote control (with batteries), AV cable, RF cable, power cord, one DVD-RAM disc, printed operating instructions

Review: Excellent value - This lightweight and inexpensive component is incredibly powerful and capable given that the price would have gotten you only a barebones DVD player just a few years ago. My primary goal is that of transcribing a videotape collection now several decades old to DVD for better archival storage and ease of transport when moving. The DMR-ES25S has a variety of other features, such as the SD Card Slot input, which I've not taken advantage of. First: Setup is a breeze. Plug it in, hook up your choice of outputs to your preamp, your choice of inputs from your preamp, and you're good to go. There's no question that this is potentially complicated for an A/V novice but Panasonic makes it easy by allowing a simple RF (coax) cable input and output so that the unit will essentially replace a VCR in a simple VCR/TV setup. That is, you can take the cable from the wall, plug it in to the back of the DVD-R, then take another cable and run it to the TV, and you're done. This type of setup works, but doesn't provide the unit's full audio or video capabilities. The player has component, digital optical, S-Video, and composite connectors all available. For my setup, I ran the cables directly from the VCR into the DVD-R, then from there to the pre-amp. This allows me to watch my videotapes as they run through the DVD-R, which is what I want because I'm recording as I go. Functionality: This part is straight-forward once you get the hang of it. Push the record button and start your source. That's it. For DVD-R's and their assorted brethren, you simply keep recording until you run out of space. I find that the 4-hour mode for a single sided 4.7GB DVD-R is fine and doesn't lose any quality over videotape. DVD-RAMs give you much more flexibility at a price. (At the moment, DVD-R stock runs about a quarter per disc while DVD-RAM stock is about 1.35 per disc). The flexibility of editing, adding chapters, and so forth is quite good with the -RAMs, and this is the way to go if you plan on moving your home videos to disc. As others have mentioned, this is a consumer grade DVD recorder, so don't plan to use it to transfer pre-recorded commercial macrovision-encoded VHS tapes. Although there are workarounds for this out there, it's simply easier to replace your tapes with commercial DVD's. The remote control isn't the most intuitive one I've seen, but it gets the job done without a lot of waiting around for recorder response time. Some actions, like finalizing a disc, take several inputs to accomplish, but again, for the most part, the remote is fine and offers some universal support for TV's. Instructions are complex but well-written. Again, this is a very complex component so plan to take some time studying the documentation. If you plan to use just a few functions, you'll be off and running within an hour, but if you want to get into the details of editing a DVD-RAM, you'll be experimenting for the better part of a day. The only downside of the unit that I've found is that there's no indication that it's turned on! It displays the time of day, like a VCR, when it's off. Push the power button and it displays a message saying hello, then reverts to the time again. There's no little green light or other indication that the unit is turned on. Picture quality is excellent. The component itself runs quietly and without generating excess heat. Overall, I'm very satisfied.
Review: Solid performer for my purposes - There are lots of reviews of this product, so you should get a pretty good sense of its capabilities and limitations. Keep in mind that different people have different expectations for a product like this, with its wide variety of possible uses. I can only add a few reactions based on the way I have personally tried to use the product. I use this unit mostly as a VCR replacement, recording standard-def TV programs from analog cable channels. I use DVD-RAMs because they're durable, and individual programs can be erased easily after I've viewed them. The DVD-RAM format also provides DVR-like features, such as the ability to start watching a program from the beginning before it has finished recording, or recording a program while watching a different program on the same disc. You can trim and split programs easily and add chapter marks with the press of a button (good for "bookmarking" your current location, if you need to remove the disc and return to it later). This unit really shines with the DVR-RAM format. (I have even discovered that the DVD-RAM recordings can be read and encoded to DivX by AutoGordianKnot, if you have a DVD-RAM-capable drive on your computer, so there is a way to get DVD-RAMs into another format if you really need to.) I also occasionally record programs to DVD+R or DVD-R for "archiving." Some reviewers have reported compatibility issues with some media or other DVD players, but I have had no problems. Even using cheap spindled media, the +Rs and -Rs from this unit play fine on my other DVD players. You have to finalize the discs, of course, before they'll play on another player. I have used the SD card slot to view pictures from my digital camera, and it works as advertised. I have also used three different video output connections - S-Video, component, and HDMI - at various times, and they all seem to work fine. This is not a high-def product, so don't expect HD quality, but the video quality is about as good as one can expect from SD source material. I think the best features of this unit involve the recording modes. Recordings made using XP (1-hour) and SP (2-hour) are excellent, as is probably the case with almost any DVD recorder. This unit, however, has a surprisingly good LP mode (4-hours), with quality almost as good as SP, and a very useful FR mode (flexible record), which adjusts the quality to achieve the best possible recording with the space remaining on the disc. As a DVD-Video player/recorder, I consider this unit a solid performer with a basic feature set. I give it five stars because of the DVD-RAM performance and the outstanding LP and FR recording modes.

## Features

- Slim-profile up-converting DVD player/recorder; measures 16.9 x 2.3 x 9.8 inches
- Easily record TV programming with 7-day TV guide; FireWire port for direct dubbing from camcorder; Secure Digital slot for photo slideshows
- Records onto DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, and DVD-RAM; plays back dual-layer DVD-R/+R and CD-R/RW
- Connections: HDMI (1 out), composite (2 in, 1 out), S-Video (2 in, 1 out), component (1 out), RF (1 in)
- Optical digital audio out for Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B000FJELQA |
| Batteries | 2 AA batteries required. (included) |
| Best Sellers Rank | #166,895 in Electronics ( See Top 100 in Electronics ) #29 in DVD Recorders |
| Brand Name | Panasonic |
| Color Name | grey |
| Customer Reviews | 3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars (134) |
| Date First Available | October 2, 2001 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 6 pounds |
| Item model number | DMR-ES25S |
| Product Dimensions | 10 x 17 x 2 inches |
| Special Features | Recording |

## Product Details

- **Audio Output Mode:** Stereo
- **Brand:** Panasonic
- **Color:** grey
- **Connectivity Technology:** HDMI
- **Connector Type:** HDMI, RF
- **Item Weight:** 6 Pounds
- **Media Type:** CD, DVD
- **Model Name:** DMR-ES25S
- **Resolution:** 1920x1080
- **Special Feature:** Recording

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent value
*by D***W on December 6, 2006*

This lightweight and inexpensive component is incredibly powerful and capable given that the price would have gotten you only a barebones DVD player just a few years ago. My primary goal is that of transcribing a videotape collection now several decades old to DVD for better archival storage and ease of transport when moving. The DMR-ES25S has a variety of other features, such as the SD Card Slot input, which I've not taken advantage of. First: Setup is a breeze. Plug it in, hook up your choice of outputs to your preamp, your choice of inputs from your preamp, and you're good to go. There's no question that this is potentially complicated for an A/V novice but Panasonic makes it easy by allowing a simple RF (coax) cable input and output so that the unit will essentially replace a VCR in a simple VCR/TV setup. That is, you can take the cable from the wall, plug it in to the back of the DVD-R, then take another cable and run it to the TV, and you're done. This type of setup works, but doesn't provide the unit's full audio or video capabilities. The player has component, digital optical, S-Video, and composite connectors all available. For my setup, I ran the cables directly from the VCR into the DVD-R, then from there to the pre-amp. This allows me to watch my videotapes as they run through the DVD-R, which is what I want because I'm recording as I go. Functionality: This part is straight-forward once you get the hang of it. Push the record button and start your source. That's it. For DVD-R's and their assorted brethren, you simply keep recording until you run out of space. I find that the 4-hour mode for a single sided 4.7GB DVD-R is fine and doesn't lose any quality over videotape. DVD-RAMs give you much more flexibility at a price. (At the moment, DVD-R stock runs about a quarter per disc while DVD-RAM stock is about 1.35 per disc). The flexibility of editing, adding chapters, and so forth is quite good with the -RAMs, and this is the way to go if you plan on moving your home videos to disc. As others have mentioned, this is a consumer grade DVD recorder, so don't plan to use it to transfer pre-recorded commercial macrovision-encoded VHS tapes. Although there are workarounds for this out there, it's simply easier to replace your tapes with commercial DVD's. The remote control isn't the most intuitive one I've seen, but it gets the job done without a lot of waiting around for recorder response time. Some actions, like finalizing a disc, take several inputs to accomplish, but again, for the most part, the remote is fine and offers some universal support for TV's. Instructions are complex but well-written. Again, this is a very complex component so plan to take some time studying the documentation. If you plan to use just a few functions, you'll be off and running within an hour, but if you want to get into the details of editing a DVD-RAM, you'll be experimenting for the better part of a day. The only downside of the unit that I've found is that there's no indication that it's turned on! It displays the time of day, like a VCR, when it's off. Push the power button and it displays a message saying hello, then reverts to the time again. There's no little green light or other indication that the unit is turned on. Picture quality is excellent. The component itself runs quietly and without generating excess heat. Overall, I'm very satisfied.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Solid performer for my purposes
*by W***N on November 29, 2007*

There are lots of reviews of this product, so you should get a pretty good sense of its capabilities and limitations. Keep in mind that different people have different expectations for a product like this, with its wide variety of possible uses. I can only add a few reactions based on the way I have personally tried to use the product. I use this unit mostly as a VCR replacement, recording standard-def TV programs from analog cable channels. I use DVD-RAMs because they're durable, and individual programs can be erased easily after I've viewed them. The DVD-RAM format also provides DVR-like features, such as the ability to start watching a program from the beginning before it has finished recording, or recording a program while watching a different program on the same disc. You can trim and split programs easily and add chapter marks with the press of a button (good for "bookmarking" your current location, if you need to remove the disc and return to it later). This unit really shines with the DVR-RAM format. (I have even discovered that the DVD-RAM recordings can be read and encoded to DivX by AutoGordianKnot, if you have a DVD-RAM-capable drive on your computer, so there is a way to get DVD-RAMs into another format if you really need to.) I also occasionally record programs to DVD+R or DVD-R for "archiving." Some reviewers have reported compatibility issues with some media or other DVD players, but I have had no problems. Even using cheap spindled media, the +Rs and -Rs from this unit play fine on my other DVD players. You have to finalize the discs, of course, before they'll play on another player. I have used the SD card slot to view pictures from my digital camera, and it works as advertised. I have also used three different video output connections - S-Video, component, and HDMI - at various times, and they all seem to work fine. This is not a high-def product, so don't expect HD quality, but the video quality is about as good as one can expect from SD source material. I think the best features of this unit involve the recording modes. Recordings made using XP (1-hour) and SP (2-hour) are excellent, as is probably the case with almost any DVD recorder. This unit, however, has a surprisingly good LP mode (4-hours), with quality almost as good as SP, and a very useful FR mode (flexible record), which adjusts the quality to achieve the best possible recording with the space remaining on the disc. As a DVD-Video player/recorder, I consider this unit a solid performer with a basic feature set. I give it five stars because of the DVD-RAM performance and the outstanding LP and FR recording modes.

### ⭐ Disapointed
*by C***3 on November 22, 2010*

This started out as one of the best electronic components I have ever purchased. Was very pleased with the ease of operation and many different ways to burn dvd's. Unfortunately after about 200 dvd's the unit ceased to operate. Fortunately I had saved all the paperwork on the item. When looking over purchase date I noticed the warranty had expired in the previous month. Beware of a unit with many features like this one. I ended settling on a Toshiba of lesser price, purchased the extended warranty to insure at least a couple of years of use. Happy to say after 300 dvd's Toshiba unit is still plugging along even though it doesn't have as many features and the ease of operation.

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