Our Overall Score:
8.5/10
Thanks for checking out our Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder review. We’re here to give you the best reviews of this product and hopefully leave you confident in whether Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder is the right product for you, or if there’s perhaps a better alternative out there for a product in the Home Entertainment category.
Latest price search at John Lewis & Partners: £169
The most important part of buying online can be to read reviews and that’s why you’re here. We’ve scanned the internet to find as many Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder reviews as we can, regardless if they’re good or bad as we want to give you the most truthful and realistic overview of just how good Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder is. In finding reviews, we discovered that the best and most informative reviews were from customers over at John Lewis & Partners, to read these review just tap on the View Reviews button now.
When it comes to buying products online, whether that’s a TV, clothes, Home Entertainment or even a something like a sofa, there are a general set of guidance or advice that you can follow to help you get the best product for your needs and also the best for your budget. As you can imagine there are tons of different options in the Home Entertainment category and even loads of options of products from Panasonic so it’s important to take the time to find the right one for you. The four areas that we want to delve in to a little more are the quality, the price of the product, what the reviews are saying about it and then finally we’ll look at an overall score which takes into account the other factors.
Quality of Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder
Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder scored an incredible 8.5/10 for quality.
As you’d expect with a lot of products, quality is a very important factor for choosing products in the “Home Entertainment” category. But it’s even more important to consider and get a feel for quality when you’re buying online because you aren’t given the benefit of being able to see and try the item for yourself.
This is of course why we can’t stress enough the importance of reading lots of reviews, as it will really help you to get a good feel for how good the quality is. A top tip when reading the reviews is to use the search function on your browser and search for the word “quality” in the reviews that way you can skip straight to customers that have mentioned about the quality of Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder.
Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder is, but we also have the following factors that you should consider to get an idea of the quality of the product you’re looking at.
- Price: It probably sounds obvious, but there are links to the price you pay and the quality of a product. Try and set your expectations for the quality based on your budget. You wouldn’t expect a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Fiesta so bear this in mind when shopping.
- Specification: It’s a really good idea to look over the product description and specification section of the website, for Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder you can read the full details on the John Lewis & Partners website where it will give you all the detail you need. It’s useful as you’ll probably already have a good idea of the sort of specs that make good Home Entertainment. Also compare these specs to other similar products that are in the same price bracket.
- Brand: Panasonic are obviously a strong and recognisable brand for making great Home Entertainment, so you’d expect Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder to deliver to these expectations. But always consider the brand when you’re thinking about the quality of the product you’re going to buy, and where quality is an important factor to you, look only at those well known brands (of course only if your budget allows).
- Your experience with Home Entertainment: You’ll no doubt have some history with buying Home Entertainment, and you may have even bought products from the same brand, Panasonic, use this information to your advantage. You’ll probably have a good idea of how good the quality of the product was and any faults or floors you remember from it.
Price analysis of Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder
Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder scored highly with 8.6/10 for price in our review.
Price, a hugely important part of any purchase. Price becomes even more of a consideration when we’re shopping online because it’s so amazingly simple to compare the price of several retailers in literally just a few clicks. In fact you don’t even need to do that, we’ve run price comparisons for you in order to find the best price. The lowest price we’ve managed to find Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder for is just £169 over at John Lewis & Partners.
There’s a lot of geeky analysis to be done on price, but what we find most effective and informative is to look at 3 different figures when comparing products and that is the average price, the most expensive and the cheapest. This gives you a really good feel for what the normal product would cost but also giving you an idea of just how cheap you can find it or the opposite, just how expensive some are. It’s also useful to look at the average of the products that fit in the same category as well as products from the same brand. So we’re going to look in more detail now at the price of Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder.
Prices of products in the Home Entertainment category
We thought it would be useful to spend a bit of time exploring the price of Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder and seeing how it compares to other similar products. And also seeing how much variance there are in prices of products in the Home Entertainment category. To do this we looked at all of the products over at John Lewis & Partners, there were a total of 10 products in the Home Entertainment, and of these 10 products the average price was £144.10, making Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder above average at £169. We also looked at the cheapest option in the same category which was just £20.00 whilst the most expensive was £279.00. So you can see there’s a huge variance in the price of products in this category, as an indication there were 16 products less expensive and 8 more expensive than Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder in this category. So we thought it would be worth going into a bit more detail and looking at the prices of products from Panasonic.
Prices of products from Panasonic
So the average price of the 214 products available from Panasonic was £419.26, making £169 below average against the other products from the same brand. With the most expensive product from them coming in at £3799.00 and the cheapest at £14.99. We thought a good next step would be to look more specifically at products from Panasonic that fit in to the category of Home Entertainment rather than looking at all their products.
Of the 4 products from Panasonic in the Home Entertainment category, the average price is £216.50 making Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder below average at £169. Again we looked at how much price can vary and found that the cheapest product to fit this criteria was £169.00 and the most expensive was £279.00 so there are again a lot of varying prices with the products. In fact to be precise we found 3 products from Panasonic that were more expensive and 0 that were cheaper.
Reviews of Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder
Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder scores 8.4/10 for customer reviews.
Reviews are really the most valuable part of your online shopping, they’re giving you the next best thing to being able to actually try the product for yourself. You’re not relying on a manufacturers sales description telling you just how good their product is, you’re getting genuine feedback from actual users of the product. We can’t stress enough how important it is that you spend some time reading the reviews of Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.
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Overall score
Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder got an amazing overall score of 8.5/10 in our review.
This figure takes into account the various criteria that we’ve covered above, the price, the quality and the customer reviews, in order to give you an overall score. This overall score of 8.5/10 then gives you a really easy figure to use for comparison purposes if you’re then going on to read any of our other reviews of Home Entertainment.
As you’ve already seen in the pricing section there are absolutely loads of different options from Panasonic so take your time to read the reviews, do your homework on setting a budget and seeing how the price of Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder stacks up against your budget and make sure you also set yourself a list of “must-haves” so you know that this product ticks all your boxes.
More info: Panasonic DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder
- Brand: Panasonic
- Model Number: DMR-HWT130 Smart 500GB Freeview HD Twin Recorder
- EAN: 5025232814237
- Description: The Panasonic DMR-HWT130 puts Blu-ray movies, HD TV and apps all in one place. Recording is made easy with the user-friendly programme guide, while twin Freeview HD tuners help you to avoid annoying timetable clashes. Thanks to DLNA, it’s also possible to stream media straight from devices on your home network. Features: Because the recorder is equipped with two HD digital tuners, two different TV programmes can be recorded simultaneously. By registering at the Panasonic Remote Recording Service , you can navigate and search on the EPG and set timer-recording of TV programme using a smartphone or tablet. Using this service while watching TV, you can set a different programme for recording without interrupting the one you’re watching. Send a recorded programme or live broadcast to your Android or iOS device wirelessly, then watch the content wherever you like in your home. With up to 129 hours of HD recording there’s space for dozens of episodes and movies. Faster operation and start-up times. The DMR-HWT130 is equipped with DLNA so recorded programmes and AVCHD and JPEG data archived on the 500GB HDD can be enjoyed in a separate room. FLAC, WMV, AVCHD, JPEG, and MP3s can also be played from a computer.
- Product ID: 25873841091
- Category: Electricals > Freeview, FreeSat, Digital Recorders & Streaming Devices
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