[ELMERDINKLEY]

I recently purchased the Panasonic dvd recorder/vcr combi. It is a lovely machine with HDMI and upscaling. However I am having problems with the following. I am trying to converts old vhs tapes to dvd by selecting individual programmes from the vhs tapes and transferring them to dvd. I simply can't fathom out how to do this. There is no pause facility on the dvd recorder so it looks like it will only record a full vhs tape or a timed part of it. If you try to record vhs to dvd by timer, it will record the program but you cannot then remove the vhs tape, insert another and continue recording. Anyone got any ideas. This is driving me bonkers. It's a cool machine but I would have though a fundemental function should be to allow you to pick programmes from each vhs tape and add them to a dvd.

Any help is appreciated.

Mel

[Gavtech]

Hi Mel

It is probably item 7 of column 2 of page 50 of the manual you need to look at.

Choose just to copy... NOT copy and finalise.

Thereafter you should be able to set up another timed copy and record it to the disc.... then finalise when the disc is complete.

[ELMERDINKLEY]

Gavtech,

Thanks v much for the swift response. Unfortunately I had tried to do it the way you suggested. When I copied the first program, I would then insert a new vhs tape and record the second program to dvd. Unfortunately when I viewed the dvd, it had recorded over the first program with the second. Something that I don't understand as I was using dvd +r disc not dvd rw. This one has me completely stumped???