Panasonic DMR-XW380 FreeviewHD photo gallery

Here are a few shots of another product that I’ll be reviewing for Register Hardware. Keep an eye on their site for the full review during May.

The DMR-XW380 is a twin tuner FreeviewHD+ box – so it can record two different things at once, and there’s a 250GB hard drive built in. There’s also a DVD burner, and one of the new features in this year’s Panasonic range is that you can burn HD material to DVD in Blu-Ray format. Ok, that’s a lot of jargon in one sentence, but essentially it means that you can save HD shows (albeit not incredibly long ones) in a format that will enable you to play them back in HD, on a Blu-Ray player.

Based on these pics, I also have the answer to another question – yes, Freeview are obviously happy for manufacturers to use advertising in their EPG, even with the Freeview logo appearing on screen.

The DMR-XW380 is a FreeviewHD recorder with twin tuners, and a DVD burner

No surprises round the back - pretty much standard for a FreeviewHD box

The remote will be familiar to any Panasonic user

Yes, that really is an advert at the side of the Panasonic EPG

An alternative EPG view shows one channel. But still with the advert