I am having some trouble getting my Panasonic DMR E85H to work. I am trying to hook it up through my Direct TV, but every time I go through the set up for the TV guide thing to automatically recognize the Direct TV it wont. I have gone through every code it has to offer. I know that I have everything hooked up correctly using the S-video cable from the reciever to the Recorder as well as the G-link thing sitting in front of the sat. box. I also cannot figure out how to get it to copy a dvd on to the hard drive. I know that there is a way around the encoding thing, if you go to the scene selection part of the movie and then start recording wait for 11 seconds then press play it is supposed to work, but nothing happens, not even a error message. I am really lost and have absolutly no idea how to work this thing, if someone can help I would really appreciate it.