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First ever Freeview HD and DVD recorder

Just when we thought everyone had given up competing with Sky+, along comes Panasonic with this incredible recorder. The DMR-EH60 is the first ever h

Just when we thought everyone had given up competing with Sky+, along comes Panasonic with this incredible recorder. The DMR-EH60 is the first ever hard drive and DVD recorder to feature a digital TV tuner – required for picking up Freeview’s 50-odd TV and radio stations – instead of an old skool analogue tuner. The hard drive’s meaty 200GB capacity has room for 355 hours’ VHS-quality footage or 44 hours of pristine recordings, several more than the Sky 160 PVR. Unlike Sony’s newest DVD recorder, this Panasonic isn’t dual layer – twice the capacity – but it does write to DVD-RAM, DVD-R/-RW and DVD+R discs. Other features include MP3 (standard), progressive scan video (very useful) and multichannel DVD-Audio playback (good for hi-res music fans). On paper, this looks like a winner. We’ll have a verdict for you in the mag as soon as we’ve tested it. The Panasonic DMR-EH60 is on sale now for £480 at Unbeatable

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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