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  • jagman1 Rank: Lance Corporal 29th Jul 2007

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    Good Points: Too few to mention


    Bad Points: Too many.


    General comments: DO NOT BUY THIS AT ANY PRICE.
    I have this unit & it's so bad I am appalled.
    The pathetic limitations are unbelievable in a machine of this supposed sophistication. 'Archive all your tapes' the ad says... forget it. Not with this pile of rubbish, you won't. You can't leave it to transfer a whole tape as the auto track is appalling & at the next program on the tape the tracking goes off & you have an unviewable transfer - so you have to watch over it to track in each new program! Think you can transfer a tape overnight? Forget it!
    The last straw was today when it stopped tape to HD transfer AGAIN because it failed to autotrack a VHS tape & interpreted the bad tracking as COPYRIGHT!
    what's going on here then? can't it distinguish between a copyright tape & a home recorded 20 year old tape from the BBC? Why won't this piece of junk track it in when my other VCR will?
    I'm amazed & disgusted that PANASONIC produce such poorly thought out units.
    This also won't let you record onto DVD & HDD at once. Why? you say - the ad says it's got 2 tuners? Yes, but one is assigned to the VCR! In 2007? Oh, I forgot, I could record to VHS tape... you must be joking... in 2007? I bought this thing to get rid of my tapes - not make more.
    The VCR is so poor, it takes ages to stop in FF mode so you end up miles past where you want to be & today it's started to chew perfect Scotch tapes which play in my other VCR! Oh, the VCR display (which you're not likely to need for much) is glaring, undimmable & always visible but the other one which is vital & gives you all the info on DVD, HDD recoding, editing etc, is dull orange & even in brightest setting is unreadable on any bright day.
    If you are dubbing a DVD you can record to HDD but not the other way round!
    You can't add or edit a timer setting if it's in timer record mode.
    The one touch record function is pathetic. 30, 60, 90, 120, 180 & 240 minutes or nothing. What's wrong with 10 or 30 minutes every press?
    The remote is a mess, one set of buttons need switching to VCR, HDD, or DVD so you can't control more than the one section at a time which means you can't transfer anything manually. No thought gone into this then?!
    I could rant for ages but I need to watch the tracking.
    BE WARNED, DON'T THINK ABOUT BUYING THIS UNIT AT ANY PRICE!