If you’d rather spread the cost over 36 months, you can set up a loan repayment plan when the payment-free period comes to an end at 19. This achieves a stunning picture quality which displays images in a more vibrant colour and in more detail too.

Combining catch-up TV, on-demand services and live television, watching what you want, when you want, is now easier than ever. Combining catch-up, live and forthcoming TV in a single menu makes it far easier to find the shows you love, and the fact it’s all available without subscription through your rooftop aerial makes it all the more appealing.

The function and availability of apps is not covered by the manufacturer’s or Richer Sounds’ guarantee. Media server function is useful although it's a shame that media copied onto the player from a USB HDD isn't available through the server. As per the PWT655EB, Demand 5 is also missing from the roster of catch-up apps when it is available on Panasonic’s dedicated PVR boxes. Our router and network infrastructure shouldn’t be the issue and we’ve used other similar services before but it’s a no-go for TV Anywhere, for us, and we just hope that other users don’t have such a frustrating experience with it as it should be really good. We would expect nothing less than pristine Blu-ray performance from a Panasonic player and that’s precisely what the DMR-PWT550 delivers in both two and three dimensions.

The build quality is solid with a black metal chassis and tinted facia which conceals a tray-loading disc mechanism and houses a useful display panel.br>
Playback, record, stream and catch-up - it's all possible on the multi-tasking Panasonic DMRPWT550EB. Even better news is that picture quality doesn’t suffer if you convert them to a lower recording mode.