| Average Customer Rating: 4.0/5
Total Reviews: 10 |
Rating: 2
VERY sensitive to power fluctuations
| I bought my unit in March. In June we had a brief brownout - lights dimmed for a moment. The unit completely locked up. Phone support couldn't help, had to return it to service. They couldn't fix it, and replaced it after a month's wait. Now 5 months later it's just done it again - the unit's completely locked up. It's still under the 1-year warranty, but I'm regretting the purchase. it's a great machine (if tricky to use) when it works, but it's just too finicky to be practical. Panasonic really should have done a bit more testing in the real world with this item. |
Rating: 5
This is a good product
I wouldn't ordinarily write a product review, but this is a good product. Here's how I use it: I've manually programmed it to record to the hard disk drive on a weekly basis the 8 or 9 shows I like to watch. These shows are automatically recorded every week and I watch them whenever I like (even while another or the same show is being recorded), and then delete them. It's that simple, and I don't have to pay any fee to TiVo or the cable company. There's plenty of room on the hard disk (for 34 hours at SP compression). I haven't had more then 8 hours of programming stored on the hard drive at one time in the two months I've had the machine. I set most of my manual recording periods for an extra 5 minutes just to make sure I never miss the very end of a show. And if a show may sometimes be 2 hours long, then I always record 2 hours -- there's plenty of room on the disk. The only time you can't record an extra window around a show is if there's another show right after it that you're also recording.
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Rating: 4
Complicated... but WORTH IT
The instruction manual is complicated and poorly compiled, lots of symbols and page re-directing, illogical order, etc. At first I was very frustrated. I found Tech Support to be extrememly patient, if not impressively knowledgable. I appreciated their assistance. But mostly I just spent several hours at a time over the course of a couple weeks to learn each feature one at a time. Some things do make sense and can be learned through playing and trial and error.
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