Panasonic PV-VD4743S Progressive Scan DVD/VCR Combo
Nice Unit overall
I got 2 of these PV-D4743 units a few days ago, and set up one of them on my big screen projection TV. Everything they said seems to work fine, VCR gives good picture,  DVD has the progressive scan and easy to operate. One thing I forgot to check out first before ordering was  whether I could play the VCR and DVD simultaneously. For most of the people that does not present any  problem, they use only one or the other at any given time.  But my TV has several inputs and  I  connect the DVD, VCR, Cable (directly), and Cable box to different inputs. I can display the inputs one by one by simply pressing the TV/Video button on my  TV (SONY) remote.  For example, with my old 'GO VIDEO' combo deck, or the SONY combo deck, I could play both the VCR and DVD simultaneouly ,  and view both of them at the same time using the  split screen. Most of the people may not care about this, but  I wish I could do it with this machine also. Also the manual adivised to connect the cable  to the VCR first and then to the cable box and to the TV. When I did that, the cable picture was really fuzzy  if the VCR power was on (not playing). However, if the VCR power was switched off, the picture looked OK.  To get around this, I connected the cable to the cable box first and from the cable box to the VCR. That seems to work but I have not tested if this presents any problem in recording programs on the VCR. It should not because the signals are already unscrambled in the cable box before getting into the VCR but again I am not a electronics wiz and I will have to try out different configurations. Any one cares to make comments or suggestions about my review?