Panasonic DMR-E30 recording problems

[bakerlite]

I have a problem with my newly purchased UK PAL DMR-E30 ... up to today, it has worked fine with Panasonic DVD-RAM disks and Bulkpaq DVD-Rs (a couple of which failed to finalise properly, but still play fine on the unit itself).

Tonight, using (several) brand new DVD-Rs, after just a few seconds of recording, the screen went blank, the Standby light blinked a few times, and the unit's display said 'Recover'. I swapped the power cable, checked all the connections etc, and managed to burn onto a new DVD-R. When finalised, this disk will only play up to a certain point, then the picture degrades and the disk stops - the same thing happened on my Samsung DVD player I'm told 'This disc cannot be played' after the picture starts to go wonky.

I tried again, with a brand new DVD-R, and the 'power failure' thing happened again.

I'm currently an hour into a new recording on another brand new DVD-R, but not convinced it will work when it's finished (if it gets that far).

The unit has performed brilliantly up until now - I've only been using it since just before New Year, and it's only had to cope with fairly moderate use - a recording I made on timer during the night worked fine!

I'm wondering should I get an engineer out on my extended warranty?

Cheers for any help,

Mark

PS - one factor which may be important is that I've moved the unit up and down stairs a few times - could this be part of the problem? I've been very careful - honest!

[PhilipL]

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[cachorrao]

I've had this happen to me a few times. Only using cheap media. I think that's what my problem was, a couple of bad disks. I was almost always still able to use the disk after it recovers. Never had the picture problem that you had though. I'm in the USA and have a NTSC though.

[filmbuffshawn]

I had the same problem using Ritek brand DVD-R's. It seems to be a problem with the cheaper disks. Some will shut down after recording for 40 seconds, and then recover afterwards. Once that certain disk has recovered I will never have problems with it again. If you record a lot, like me, live with it because good disks are too expensive. As for picture degradation, I've never experienced that.

[ktnwin]

I have tried to record DV8 tapes to my DMR-E30 using Ritek DVD-R (the purple ones, 81cents/piece). I did 10 of them and they all work fine in the DMR-E30 and also in my other DVD players (Pioneer).