Panasonic DMR-E80H Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder with Hard Drive , Silver
Problems of other reviewers are real
This sounds like other reviews on Amazon.com. After about six months of use, my recorder started losing the ability to recognize commercial DVDs. Then, it locked up while dubbing from HD to DVD-R, went into Recover, and made the disk useless--at $1.50 or so a pop. Then, it stopped working altogether.<br /><br />The repair place that Panasonic sent me to said that they couldn't get a new \\"deck\\" from Panasonic for about six weeks. I called Panasonic, got the part expedited, but, when the repair part was installed weeks later it turned out to be defective. That was weeks ago. New repair parts are still weeks out. The parts guy at the repair place told me that these things break constantly, specifically that they were released to the market before the technology was right. So, the Panasonic DMRs are piling up at the shop. It takes a long time to talk to someone at Panasonic (I'm on hold now and have been for about 20 minutes). The people I've talked to are nice but refuse to connect me to anyone above them and essentially are not permitted to do more than pass on the problem to their bosses. The most recent one even said this was my fault because I didn't call every few days to see if they had done anything about the part. When I told him that this was corporate responsibility, he just got evasive and continued to make it my fault.<br /><br />So, if you buy this, expect it to break, expect that there are no parts, expect to get the run around.<br /><br />I paid a lot of money for something that doesn't work and can't be fixed.<br /><br />Anyone for a class action lawsuite?