Panasonic DMREH50-can't save position of DVD movie

[bimbamboom]

I just purchased the Panasonic DMREH50 DVD recorder. It doesn't seem to allow me to save the position of a DVD movie that I'm watching. If I turn the unit off, then on again, I want the movie to start playing at the scene I was watching. Anybody else notice this feature lacking?

[donpedro]

Pioneer has that feature... I am not aware that Panasonic should have it. Is it in the manual ?

[trhouse]

I checked the Panasonic ES10 and Pioneer 531 for this feature. The Pioneer can resume playback from the same place from either the hard drive or a dvd disk after powering down. The ES10 cannot.

Inside the ES10 I found no battery but the 531 has one, which may explain why it can remember where it left off.

[edit] The battery could have some other purpose as well, since neither of these units is really off unless unplugged from the wall.

[hech54]

My cheapo player has that function on ALL of the time and I hate it...

[Synergy]

I just purchased the Panasonic DMREH50 DVD recorder. It doesn't seem to allow me to save the position of a DVD movie that I'm watching.

This is not technically true since all current Panasonic DVD players/recorders use the "Position Memory" key on the remote to accomplish saving the position of a DVD during playback. While it is one additional step required especially compared to other brands, it can still memorize the position even after the DVD is removed and put it back in.

If this is too much for you, then don't ever buy any Panasonic players/recorders.

[musher70]

need to be using dvd-ram discs for that
feature...thats the benefit of this recorder...

wanna use dvd-r, get another recorder

[bimbamboom]

My old Panasonic DVD player has the memory button, but the EH50's remote doesn't. Nothing mentioned in the manual either.

[trhouse]

It sounds like none of the current line of Panasonic recorders has that button. Here is a picture of the remotes from the DMR-ES10 and ES30. They do not have it either.

[geoffco]

There is definitely no facility to remember where you have got to on a DVD if you remove a disc from the Panasonic EH50. I know because I contacted Panasonic with that very question. I have only had the recorder for a week so it's little early to make a complete analysis. It was a tough call between that and the Toshiba XS34 SC. The main thing I love about the Pansonic is the thumbnails. They're actually a miniature screen of the movie you have recorded complete with movement and sound. I agree with most reviews that I've seen that the manual is very hard going it, seems to go out of it's way to confuse you continuously referring you from one page to another and back again to find out what you want to know. I had a hard time getting the TV Onguide to pull in all my "Rogers" cable channels and would have thrown the towel in if I hadn't come across an article on the internet whereby someone living in Manhattan had the same problem and they hit on the idea of entering a zip code that was in (I think) Queens it worked perfectly. The cable line up was the same so it was fine. I did the same. It wouldn't work with my zip code so I entered one just a few blocks away and it worked great.

My biggest gripe with the Toshiba was that the remote was too confusing, there seemed to be a zillion buttons on the top plus a another dozen underneath the bottom half of the remote