Panasonic DMRE85HS Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder with 120 GB Hard Drive Recording
Nice recorder - but TV Guide listings cause unreliability
This is a nice machine for the money, considering the features and hard disk size.  I've had it for a couple of months and have found that one day per week for the last two weeks, my TV Guide-selected timer recordings failed to occur.  I gather that this is due to the TV Guide listings trying to download at that time.  This happened again today and apparently the listings did not update at all because most of the TV Guide screen shows \\"No Listings Available\\". <br /> <br />As this appears to be a common finding, considering some of the other review, I would hope efforts are being made with the technology to somehow improve this. <br /> <br />It appears the way to avoid such failure may be to do a manual timer recording for those programs you really truly want to record.  And, only count on the TV Guide-selected recordings for those you won't really miss if they don't quite happen.