Some of the posted information is still relevant for the newer models.
Since you are asking for tips on the newer models, I hope you will find the information helpful on the next post.
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Some tips for the new generation of the Panasonic DVD recorders:
1. Some users of the EH50 model report that now they can record up to 2hrs and 9 min. on a DVD-RW/R in SP mode.
2. Pressing the “Stop” button while you record the program doesn’t give the immediate response. It has a delay of about a second. You will have better results if you first press “Pause” and then “Stop”.
3. Don’t leave the disc in the recorder. In a situation of a power outage or unplugging the unit, with the next plugging in, the recorder will keep on checking for very long time before it will allow you to use it.
4. If you don’t have a cable feed or antenna connected to your DVD recorder, every time you turn on the unit, the Setup screen will ask you to select the language, going immediately afterwards with the channel scan. It is very annoying, indeed, but there are very simple solutions to this problem:
- Instead of the “Power”, always use the “Open/Close” button.
- If you prefer to use the “Power” button, then press the “Return” button when the Setup appears on the screen.
5. The Panasonic EH50 will allow you to mark chapters while recording other programs, as well as while playing back when it is still recording. After you start with the recording, press “Play” on the remote and you will go to chasing play mode. Now you can pause and mark chapters pressing the “Chapter Mark” while the recording of the program is in progress.
6. The recorder will remember where you stopped the playback of the disc and will resume from that point. What do you do if you want to start watching the movie from the beginning? There is an easy solution – press the “Stop” button again. This will erase the memory and will allow you to watch the program from the beginning. Sometimes people start playback from the Navigator and when they press “Stop” it will bring them back to the Navigator screen. In this situation it is necessary to press “Return” and then “Stop”. The next step to start playing program from the beginning is to press the “Play” button.
7. What is the best way to dub the program from the HDD to DVD disc: high speed or FR? Dubbing to a disc with FR is “Real Time” dubbing that involves re-encoding of the program resulting with loss of chapter information and compromised picture quality. Recording at XP mode to the HDD and doing an FR dub will result with the worse picture quality than recording at SP and dubbing at high speed. For the best PQ avoid double encoding - use HS dubbing. -
Thanks Zoran, It's really a help to have someone who is so intimate with a product line.... I am looking hard at the JVC dr-MX1S now. It's about $100 more than the Drme 50hs but also has a Prgogrssive scan VCR. The owners manual also shows the ability to program some SAT-TV boxes. I have a message into panasonic cust support on that question since they say nothing about it in the manual....
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Hi. I am new in the forum. I am from Spain, so, please, pardon my english!
I have the DMR-EH60 (I think is the same that EH50 with different HD).
Thanks, Zoran, for the tips. Could you say anything about the setup?
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This time Panasonic did everything to fine-tune its new generation of DVD recorders for the North American market and I believe the same is done for the other markets too.
Therefore there is not much to tweak and adjust on these new machines. On the recording side, the only option is the selection of the Line-in NR. This filter will affect only analog inputs and I suggest that you leave it on “Automatic” position. If you dub the highest quality analog signals (Betacam SP or analog output from DVCam) you can switch it to “Off” because you need the purest possible path of the incoming signal. I found that if this setting is left on the “On” position, it could have an adverse effect on some recorded footage.
On the output side, you have more choices for adjusting the picture quality so choose them in any way that will please you the most. -
This time Panasonic did everything to fine-tune its new generation of DVD recorders for the North American market...
Also, I don't seem to have a HYBRID VBR RESOLUTION setting on my DMR-EH50.
One other thing, I've just got into transferring my Hi8 tapes to DVD using a standalone unit. I used to do it through the computer, but thought this would be a lot easier as I have a lot of tapes accumulating. The thing is, the user guide is not very user friendly and really only shows the functions of the unit and not really HOW to do as a step-by-step tutorial. I've already burned two useless DVDs in trying to transfer one of my tapes (one with no chapters and another with chapters but no thumbnails on the main screen) I'll probably burn a few more coasters before I get it right.
I was hoping that someone may post a HOW TO procedure on going from a camcorder, to the HDD, edit the recording, create chapters, playlist (I missed that one on my first burn) and then finally burn to DVD.
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Any tips ot tricks on getting a a disc to eject? This was MY mistake. I had a disc sitting by the computer that wouldn't show up on my drive. Thinking that it might have been an unfinalized disc that I mistakingly brought over, I put it in. Well, now it won't eject. I tried the stop button and channel down button already, no workie. Any ideas would be great, I'll give it about a day then I'm buying another one.
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Hello!
good Job here. I have a DMR-E60. i have use it for 2 years in my studio every day. quality product. Now i think it's time to change the optical laser because when i put a blank dvd it says NO DISC. i had clean it, but now i must change it. Any way how to buy a new one, because i live in Albania, and here not a panasonic center. I need the number or code of this product (Laser) may be like TCxxxxyyy because i don't have the old laser to look for this number on it.
thank you. i had buy the dvd recorder in usa, and a friend of mine can buy there the laser but he wants the number of this part.
thank you all of you
good job
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I believe the latest crop of Panasonic recorders (15, 35, 45, 75) have additional features, different bugs, etc. than the older models mentioned.
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Heres a question. Is there a way to fix these things to where it will use the whole disc. I have the Es25 and that really bugs me.
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Zoran,
I have the 75v. My primary purpose is to convert my VHS tapes to DVD. After recording to the HDD, I burned the title onto the +RW and then use TMPGEnc to remove the extras. I noticed there are 2 video files. I also use DVD Shrink and confirmed that the two files are identical (title 1,3). However, the original +RW and edited version have significant volume (audio) dropped. It is almost like half the volume when played on other DVD players and on computer. When play on the unit itself, it is only somewhat louder but it is still significantly lower. I tried to set the Hybrid VBR Resolution to fixed but this feature does not appeared to be on the 75v. Do you know what went wrong?
As far as some of the pervious posts on burning the entire disk. It appeared that this unit also will not use the entire disc. The most I can get is almost 4.1 Gb. This is on 2 hours and 23 minutes in FR mode. I get nearly the same for 1 hour and 38 minutes of recording in FR mode. So it seems the unit will leave some spaces. -
Zoran, I just wanted to write to say that even those of us who don't (yet) have Panasonic are learning useful things from your first post outline of settings! My Samsung has an XP setting, and I have encountered the oddity of putting a finalized DVD-R (which supposedly makes it DVD-video) into my five year old JVC player and having the playback in super-slow motion. I didn't think I used XP to record the Kennedy Center show, but now I don't know! I have used it before. Anyway, what you write about XP may well apply to other machines and computers! So I wanted to thank you for that information.
As you're obviously well-versed in Panasonic, I wondered what your general view of combo units are, as opposed to separate components? I've got an eye toward the unit with the Hard disk but that half-a-grand price tag is daunting. They did have one without the VCR called the EH55S and people were complaining about the TVGOS and seemed to have complained it out of existence. Are these good reliable units?
Also, any idea when black machines will come back? I hate to sound like such a "girl", but I really don't like all the silver!
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This thread does help, but might need some updating now that Panasonic has come out with new DVD recorders with ATSC tuners. Specifically DMR-EZ17K, DMR-EZ27K, DMR-EZ37K, and DMR-EZ47K.
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Read your post and thought you really know about Panasonic DVD recprders.
Ihave an DMR80H which I dearly love. Bought five for Christmas presents for my five married children.
I now have cable TV and can not figure out how to set up the recording program to record channels above 99. The program will not accept a three digit number. Do I have it wired wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated. RonC -
Originally Posted by RonC
To get the "higher" channels you need to use a cable box to do the tuning and input that into one of the inputs on the DVD recorder.
It works best if you have one cable box for the TV and one for the DVD recorder ... that way you can watch one channel while recording another.
Most cable companies will give you a 2nd cable box for $5.00 to $10.00 extra per month.
- John "FulciLives" Coleman"The eyes are the first thing that you have to destroy ... because they have seen too many bad things" - Lucio Fulci
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Although this post is 2 1/2 years old, I guess it's never too late to say thank you. I'll try those settings as soon as I get my ES46V.
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Ok, I am not new to DVD players.... But a friend has a Panasonic DMR EH55. The manual says it is divx compatible, so I Burned some movie files to dvd using Nero 7.10 Burning Rom, udf. the unit gives an error unsupp on the unit, I have tried burning at 8x and 4x using both DVD-R and DVD+R disks. I have authored dvd's for him using the same media with convertxtodvd no problems. I have burnt these same files and played them without problem on my 2 Philips players and another friends LG.
Panasonic's customer support is telling me I have to register Divx VOD to get it to work, I'm sorry I think that is pure BS, I even read them from the manual that Divx from PC and Divx/VOD are two different issues. Any Suggestions? -
Try burning with another program ... I suggest ImgBurn which is freeware.
Also try one DVD-R and one CD-R and see if one vs the other works. I've heard some MPEG-4 capable DVD players can only handle MPEG-4 on CD-R discs although I would be surprised if the Panasonic was limited in that way.
More likely it is the burning program at fault.
- John "FulciLives" Coleman"The eyes are the first thing that you have to destroy ... because they have seen too many bad things" - Lucio Fulci
EXPLORE THE FILMS OF LUCIO FULCI - THE MAESTRO OF GORE
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zorankarapancev, thanks for your tips. I am due to get a new dvd recorder and seeing your experience makes me want to consider getting a panasonic, maybe the unit you use. Thanks once again for your knowledge and tips.
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great tips about the settings
I'll try that out on the two I have
E95 and E100
Both my machines sat in their boxes for quite some time because I found the instructions to be confusing. There was quite a lot of info to absorb. And I even tried BEST BUY to get a sales person to show me, but they didn't have a clue either....so I didn't feel too bad about failing to comprehend the manual.
I think panasonic screwed up by not enclosing a short how-to video, to help folks get going.
Because once I called panasonic and the guy walked me thru a cpl sticking points, I was off to the races!!! lol
Anyways, I've been keeping my eyes open for either a pioneer or panasonic with an HD tuner, because after february, I'll only be able to record 1 channel off a converter box at a time. But I haven't seen any with the HD tuner!!! I'm surprised or am I just missing seeing the HD tuner in the spec? -
None have a HD tuner. The DVDRs with a digital tuner downconvert the HD to SD and then record that.
If you meant the, the ability to tune to a HD channel, then any of the Panasonic EZ series machines will do that. Pioneer does not import a DVDR with a digital tuner. The only Pios available would have a analog tuner and are available in Canada.
I believe their is one cecb that has a manual timer to change channels by itself, the Zinwell's Zat-790a. Since the new DVDRs are rather unreliable I'd suggest using your old one with a converter box anyway. It's what I'm currently doing and get great results. -
yeah, that's what I meant, the ability to receive broadcast hd signal
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To Zoran, or anyone else, please......
I've really enjoyed the Panasonic DMR-E80H and gotten lots of hours of enjoyment, but the disc tray is sticky. Sometimes it won't open at all. Other times I have to his the button a few times and it opens. Do you have any suggestions? -
ianmaciain,
sounds like the button has worn contacts inside. or it could be a sticky relay, but I've never opened one of these up.
I'm sure somebody somewhere is familiar with that, you may try a vcr shop etc. ask questions, sometimes they'll help with suggestions.
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Hi everyone,
I have a Panasonic DMR-EH60. Recently while playing with the remote control, I have set the main unit for ''Remote DVD2'' and the remote control do not communicate with the main unit. I did everything step by step in the users manuel. I can not bring the settings to the original ''DVD1''
Is there anybody there to setup the unit or remote to speak to each other again? Or is there anyway to set the unit to factory settings from the main unit rather than the remote control?
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You seem to have been lucky. Three units, three failures. Here are some of the major problems:
Panasonic DMR-EZ485V DVD-Recorders- two units.
One unit purchased 12/29/2009, the other a refurbished unit received after returning a DMR-EZ48VK in December, 2009 ,still under warranty ,because of multiple problems.
1. Switch on, sometimes no sound; have to switch off and then on again to get sound.Problems with both units
2. Only Memorex, Fuji, and Sony DVD + RW discs have been used on the units.
3. With timer delayed recording, after trying to record, panel message says : ‘There might be a problem with the disc. Self check will start.’ After completion there is nothing recorded on the disc. The disc has been successfully recorded on the unit before! Happens three to four times a week. Sometimes the delayed timer recording does not come on but If I use a minute timer delay for the unit to go into the record mode it records 100% of the time.
4. Unit frequently freezes. Have to unplug at back of unit.
5. Frequently get a U99 message after trying to use timer recording. This is with discs successfully used on the unit before.
6. After using Fast Forward x 2 x10 etc., when try to playback there is no sound. If I rewind a bit and play there is sound (happens 100 % of times).
7. Sometimes the skip button on the remote doesn’t work.
No help from Panasonic; told to return for another refubished unit with 90 day warranty.
Ray Best
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IMHO the EZ-48(5)v is the biggest POC Panasonic has made to date. It's VERY problematic, the only people that don't have problems with a EZ-48v are probably the ones that never use it. If you read many forums you'll see a pattern, DON'T even think of a EZ-48v. If you can get buy without a tuner the Panasonic EA-38v has proven to be more reliable. If you need a tuner your best choice would be a EZ-28 with a external VCR. I can't stress enough to NOT even consider the EZ-48v, it's that bad
Firmware updates fix nothing and Panasonic can't repair them, they are just a bad design from the beginning.
A couple other Panasonic clunkers would be the '05 ES-20 and ES-40v combo, they were the first Panasonics to contain LSI silicon for their brains. The EZ/EAs are also LSI/Magnum but other than the EZ-48v they aren't too bad.
IMO it's not the LSI silicon, but rather the way Panasonic implemented the chip, bugs etc.
If you were to have started with the ES/EH series of Panasonics like I did(with the exception of the ES-20 & ES-40v) you'd be a Panasonic user for life. Or at least as long as you can keep 'em going, which for me has been 5 years for my oldest ES-30v.
Sorry about your bad luck with the diva of Panasonic DVDRs, the EZ-48v
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