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Greetings - I just bought a SONY 60" rplcd and I'm about to purchase a DVD to help me calibrate it. I'm new to all this stuff but the only guy locally I've heard of was $300+ and for that I'd like to try my hand first. I've heard of (3) Digital Video Essentials, AVIA, and one called...

I've spent a week reading everything I could find here comparing the technologies, and I think I'm pointed in the right direction but wanted to solicit some comments just in case I'm missing something. I have a 12x20 room, will be doing mostly DVD viewing and satellite-to-DVD recording - VERY...

Greetings - I'm reading furiously to learn about which vendors to avoid and which are best. My first Q is - where is the best place to purchase out-of-print DVD's? Don't ask me why but I missed 'A Bug's Life' when it was out and now it appears to be out of print! Second Q - I read a LOT of...

Marvin - It would be very interesting to research the failure rates of the Pana units compared to others. Trouble is, my repair shop was less than forthcoming only to say "No no we don't see a lot of these in for repair". Yeah right. I wonder if consumer reports has anything on these.

Not to beat this black-level thing to death, but one more bit of info I thought people might find interesting. I first had a Pana HS2, and a Sony player (don't recall the model but it was middle of the road in price). I would use the Sony player to test EVERY DVD I burned on the HS2. Well...

Phil - In short, to the best of my knowledge, "NO" and "NO". I have found NO way to enter a name (which the E80 had) and no way to tell if the program will fit. That's not the worst of it, believe me. No way to specify Sun-Sat recording, that was nice too. But the scrolling is what's really...

Marvin - Just something to consider - but a bigger hard drive that only lasts 3 months isn't such a great deal is it? Not to mention, with a horribly busted interface, you'll have no fun trying to make use of all that space! My E85 has been OVER a week in the shop after 3 months of use. The...

Uh - WOW - that's a rather insulting comment I gotta say. In the immortal words of Jar-Jar, "How wuuuude!!!" To the original poster - I can't speak about the Toshiba but as I mentioned I have plenty of experience with various Panasonic models - and whether Joe believes me or not, that...

> Have timer-recorded a few things which recorded fine. One thing I noticed on the timer recording is that it can only remember up to 1 month. For example, every Monday means every Monday for a month and expires -- I'll have to remember to keep "renewing" the programming. It's not like my VCR...

Peter - If I haven't bashed Panasonic enough already I have one more comment to add - as I found out my E80 was covered under warranty, I took it in for repair. It's been there 2 days, and the word from the repair center was that they are waiting for "permission" from Panasonic to replace not...

And here's some additional info about the problems with the E85 I have noticed - again - from another thread . ---- I'm curious to know if you guys who just upgraded from the E80 to the E85 are seeing the same horrible interface problems that I've been seeing - or is it just me?! Biggest...

Hey Peter - as I'm not "allowed" to post the url link to my review in the other thread, I'll just paste it here. I wanted to offer some feedback in case anyone is interested in hearing from an experienced owner. This is my third Pana unit, and I'm about to switch brands. Here is why: I...

Well THAT was nice. Great site here. Peter - I just composed a rather lengthy reply for you but thanks to this site's terrific "policy" of disallowing url links in a post until you've submitted 15 posts, I lost the entire reply. The url by the way, was to another thread here and my review of...

Hey Alan I actually restrained myself in my posts compared to what I was saying in my living room when I saw all this stuff!!! In all seriousness I see almost no similarity between the E80 and E85. The user interface is a complete rewrite, even the remote has all the buttons moved and some...

I'm curious to know if you guys who just upgraded from the E80 to the E85 are seeing the same horrible interface problems that I've been seeing - or is it just me?! Biggest issue for me is arbitrary timer events not firing and programs not recorded. I have yet to determine anything about this...

I'm still new to all this stuff although I've been burning DVD's like crazy for quite a while! But with TV's I'm less educated. I currently have a SONY 53" projection. I'm trying to figure out what's the next step up. I've read/seen LCD's, great quality, but I've heard they're not-so-nice...

Ok but if I -did- want to replace the hard drive myself, I'd still like to find out if it's ok to do. I'll probably keep the unit and I'm sure the drive will die again after the 1yr is up. Anyone?

Dennis - if you're paying $.60 for your Ritek's you might want to find another vendor. I routinely get them for $.50 at places like Shop4Tech(.com) or Meritline(.com) and usually with FREE shipping (at S4T usually). I have done over 1500 recordings with Pana HS2, E80, and E85. I have found...

I wanted to offer some feedback in case anyone is interested in hearing from an experienced owner. This is my third Pana unit, and I'm about to switch brands. Here is why: I started with an HS2 (when they were $999). I have a library over 1200 SVHS and VHS tapes to dub, along with making...

Well I'll be!!! Right you are! They must have changed it since the HS2 - I had the hard drive die in that one too and the repair shop said "Sorry, 90 day warranty only". PS: You'd THINK that after 2 out of 2 units having drives die that I'd give up and buy something else. Considering the...

I have a Panasonic E80HS which has an 80gb hard drive. I believe the hard drive has died as the unit is giving me an "UNFORMAT" error and a much less descriptive "FORMAT FAILED" error when I try to format the drive. It was in operation for approximately 6 months and used heavily prior to...