Andrew Alex
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We bought this Panasonic Recorder in September, from Comet. We bought this one because we have had positive experience of Panasonic before and because the salesman said it was easy to set up and operateIt has been neither. We had to call in one of my son's friends who (literally) has a degree in electrical engineering, to set it up, and even after he spent an hour on this, it has still been somewhat less than satisfactory:
1. It is a nightmare to operate. For the simple task of formatting a DVD I have to reach for my annotated instruction book: there are no helpful prompts at all.
Even showing a DVD needed the instruction manual, except on those occasions when it started working when you just popped the DVD in!
2. During the really complicated installation process we lost the ability to watch TV without going through the Virgin Box. This would not really matter except this obliges us to watch the channel we are recording. Surely this defeats part of the purpose of having a recorder in the first place.
3. Tonight was the final straw. Having managed to record a film last night, onto the hard drive, we found it would only record onto DVD in "real-time" and we had to watch it on the TV at the same time. At this point I removed the unit from the TV shelf, found the receipt and all the other junk and I intend to return it to Curry's tomorrow and recover as much of my £269.99 as possible!
ADVICE: Unless you like your tech complicated, don't buy Panasonic!!
AA
1. It is a nightmare to operate. For the simple task of formatting a DVD I have to reach for my annotated instruction book: there are no helpful prompts at all.
Even showing a DVD needed the instruction manual, except on those occasions when it started working when you just popped the DVD in!
2. During the really complicated installation process we lost the ability to watch TV without going through the Virgin Box. This would not really matter except this obliges us to watch the channel we are recording. Surely this defeats part of the purpose of having a recorder in the first place.
3. Tonight was the final straw. Having managed to record a film last night, onto the hard drive, we found it would only record onto DVD in "real-time" and we had to watch it on the TV at the same time. At this point I removed the unit from the TV shelf, found the receipt and all the other junk and I intend to return it to Curry's tomorrow and recover as much of my £269.99 as possible!
ADVICE: Unless you like your tech complicated, don't buy Panasonic!!
AA