Panasonic PV-D4742 DVD-VCR Combo, Black
I agree with the concensus of reviews on this one: don't buy
I got one of these units because I needed a machine that something beyond auto tracking control.  It had tracking adjustment, so, I got it to replace my old unit.  Within 2 weeks, I wanted something else.  The store wouldn't accept it back (Not an Amazon.com store, though.) so, I sold it to someone else.<br />The unit has several problems, most of them related to the digital drive.  The VCR portion I didn't have as many problems with as others report, no ejected tapes, etc. but it has its own irks.  First, the RF In.  Was very staticy, peppered with little colored dash marks.  Other units did not display this static when the cable was connected.  Plus, its search function is an abysmal failure.  You can't search to a predefined position on the tape, you can only search to a position in X hours/minutes, not a precise time into the tape.  While this works fine when the counter is at 0:00 at the start of the tape, but, when it's not the start of the tape anymore, searching becomes an absolute mess, especially when you want to go backwards.<br />The digital unit, though, is where this dog starts to bark.  For DVD's, the way it manuevers through chapters, etc. is not exactly the most user friendly method.  There's no easily programmable A to B function.  Plus, a real annoyance with CD's.  The programmer's apparently decided to code the CD player to automatically skip 2 seconds at the end of each track.  Which is fine for music CD's; most people who burn their own discs tend to remove the 2 second gap anyway... I don't.  I like the 2 seconds, and, automatically skipping the gaps, WITHOUT giving the user the option to turn this off, makes playing audio CD's impossible, as the last 2 seconds of a track's lines and the first 2 seconds of lines in the next track get swallowed up by the skipping!  Poor, poor design.<br />While the digital drive does accept writable and rewritable CD and DVD formats, except for DVD-RAM, this is very little consolation compared to how much is left out and what doesn't work right.  PASS on this model.