Panasonic DMR-E80H Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder with Hard Drive , Silver
Strange problems &quot;Error has occurred&quot;
I've had this unit for about a week and it's giving me very strange problems.  I'd like to know if I have a defective one, but regardless I'm posting to represent these problems to anyone else who experiences them.  <br />It started when I came home expecting to find recorded video on the HD, instead there was a message, &quot;Reformat HD?&quot;.  (I never asked it to do this; it was spontaneous.)  I couldn't select NO, because the machine was frozen.  I pulled the plug &amp; restarted it.  This resulted in a series of other peculiar events: the display read &quot;RECOVER&quot; and after a while I got the message &quot;ERROR HAS OCCURRED&quot; and at one point I even saw a &quot;CHECK DISK&quot; error.  I suspected it might be the DVD I had previously recorded on, but I took it out and the problems persisted.  <br />The problems have continued.  Typically it will say &quot;Error has occurred&quot; and say &quot;Bye!&quot; then restart with the &quot;RECOVER&quot; status message.<br />For a while I couldn't get it to come on, and I thought I wouldn't get to see my recorded programs.  Now it's unwilling to record to DVD-R's; it gives up and says &quot;Error has occurred&quot;, wasting discs.<br />This is extremely disruptive behavior for something I thought would be like a VCR.  My VCR never does anything this annoying.  Panasonic, what's wrong?  Why not get it right?  If mine is defective, why can't it self-diagnose?<br />Be careful.  Don't trust this thing with anything important.  Good luck.