DVD recorder woe

[snodgrass]

I am having persistent trouble with my Panasonic Freeview-integrated DVD recorder, which more often than not will record a programme for 10 minutes or so and then suddenly abort the recording. This is doubly annoying because the machine also then goes into a protracted self-check procedure before I even get the TV picture back. Why is this? It's not a cheap model - I got it discounted as end-of-line for about �260, but it was about �400 in the shops 2 or 3 years ago. It's supposed to take both DVD+R and DVD-R discs, and I tend to use -R as it seems to prefer those to the + variety. This is once again one of the sometimes-it-behaves-sometimes -it-doesn't problems that seem to have plagued me with most of the electrical equipment I've bought. Can anyone help?

[Bathsheba]

Hi snodgrass. I'm certainly no expert, cos electrical items misbehave with me also, but don't you have to use RW disks to record? x

[Postdog]

Can't help you snodgrass, but from what you say, it' seems it's nothing you are doing wrong. You say it goes into some sort of self check routine, so I would assume that in doing that it "corrects" anything going wrong....only it doesn't!. I'd get on to the manufacturer (do they have an email on their site?) and get some advice from them.

If it's any consolation (tho I know it won't be...) I have a twin tuner freeview hard drive which is the dogs proverbials, except, for some reason every two months, it gets very tempremental and cuts off recordings early, and I have to do a re-install. Not a great problem in itself except that it also means manually sorting the channel list.

[snodgrass]

Thanks guys. Bathsheba, I suspect -RW discs might work better but if I insert one it says I have to 'format' the disc first and, pathetically, I don't know how to do this. Manual is of course somewhere in the house but so is the fiver I'm convinced I lost down the sofa in 2004. Any ideas what this formatting gubbins might involve?

[pauln90]

You dont say which model you have.

So check out the Panasonic site for "How To's" and Manuals here :-

http://www.panasonic.co.uk/customer-Support/do wnload-centre.asp