Panasonic DMR-E80H Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder with Hard Drive , Silver
The dreaded recover and crash
I love the advertised features of the DMR-80.  When it wants to work it's great.  I have had it less than a month and I am packing it up for a trip to the repair center in Texas.  Video is jittery through the unit and every time I try to record directly to a DVD-r or DVD Ram it goes into recover mode. It then resets and goes into recover mode again and then goes BYE!  Recordings to the HDD seem fine but even dubbing from HDD to DVD-R usually crashes by going into recover mode and then shutdown.  I'll be sending the unit out this week.  We'll see what the turn around time is and if they really fix the unit.  So far very disappointed in video quality and inability to do the very thing I purchased the unit for, that is burn DVD's