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It does not record in HD to DVD from a cable box. Power down and back up=U99.
Cost of mailing is ridiculous. Still under warranty but have to take it 261 miles away for warranty work.
I have had this machine for 9 months and it has been okay. Somewhat difficult to setup machine; now does not work, shows U99 on display and is frozen, only turns on and off and displays U99.
This thing is going in the trash. Plays DVD's in very good quality.
It is grainy to say the least downgrades to 480P for recording.sucks.
bet. There is a one year warranty, but since mine ran out, customer service suggested to send it for repair which could cost over $100. Specifically looking for a VCR/DVD combo which allows recording on both discs and vhs tapes and has a digital tuner. I purchased this unit August 2007. I haven't seen many with glowing reviews. Tried everything possible to reset it. ho hum.
Took a bit to get the hang of and had a few initial questions/problems which cust. Now need to start from scratch researching other products. I will do that in the future. service helped with. Informed that unit should be plugged into a surge protector as opposed to a wall outlet.
There weren't many on the market then, and the cost was approx. Very disappointed. When the power came back, the unit was not funtioning properly. $250-$300. The unit was not perfect, but worked fine for my needs.I recently lost power for 11 hours due to a storm.
Overall, I think it had potential - Panasonic just needed to get the bugs worked out. It did a pretty good job recording and playing DVDs, but it was sensitive to locking up with anything recorded on another machine and with any scratch. We've had this DVD/VCR combo for a little over a year. Now the DVD tray is stuck shut with a dvd inside it.
I don't know what is going on there but it only happens to a very small number of my DVD's.The VCR works great and it records TV very well. The unit receives basic cable very well and the picture is improved over the TV (which is almost 5 years old now) connection on its own.
And I do suggest it for those who are in need of a nice DVD-VHS combo. Over all it is a nice unit.
This unit is nice, and works well. The method of switching between the SD, DVD and VCR inputs is very intuitive.
I haven't used the HD aspects or the VHS-DVD copying features, but what I do have used is nice. The only issue I have had for it is that certain DVD's images tile and scramble on this unit that work just fine on other DVD players (including a computer).
The SD slot is nice also.
I have called the Panasonic for the broken piece issue. The units gets hot within 4-5 hours of operations. The unit still gets hot within 4-5 hours operations. I have sent it to the Panasonic repair ( Elk Grove Village,IL) and they says the unit is fine.
I have the Panasonic DMR-EZ47V for almost 8 months. I am not sure if I can get the replacement or refunds. My other units on the shelves are not gets hot like this. It gave me a lots of trouble.
When they returned the DVD player to me, the cover on the top of the one touch dubbing button is broken. I will not buy any more Panasonic product again. First of all it freezes most of the times. I have to unplag the power cord to reduce the temparature.
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