Dvd Recorder question

On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:47:39 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
<spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote:

>On 11/03/2008, kaboom posted this:

>> **You're welcome, Gene Now I'm wondering how I can get Carl to fix
>> mine
>
>> kaboomie
>
>From the URL you published, it looks like a pretty straightforward job
>- also, IMHO, that site is as clear as Heathkit instructions were, back
>in the day.

**They do but I've never done that kind of work and I don't want the
e85 to be my first try. Don't you wish that there were more sites
like that vassfamily page? It's fantastic.

>If I still lived in RI, I could drop in on you with tools and fix it
>(if I figured your approximate location correctly). Unfortunately, I'm
>now a couple of thousand miles west of there...

**I'm in CT I have a friend who used to work as a repairman for
Tweeter. Now he's with an independent company that fixes electronics
so he has access to tons of diagrams/instructions on repairing
everything. His forte is TVs. I asked him about repairing the recorder
and he thinks it'll be a piece of cake. So, piddies crossed, I'll have
it done soon.

I'm still thinking of picking up some other DVD recorders. It feels
like they want to stop making standalone DVD recorders in favor of
VCR/DVD recorder units. I happen to think that those machines don't do
either (record with VCR/DVD) very well. The World Gift Center has
Pioneers and Panasonics with hard drives (as well as brand name VCRs)
but they are made for other regions (they still work here but are
usually minus a tuner). I'd like to try a Pioneer at some point or
even another Panasonic, they are really ideal for VHS to DVD.

kaboomie

xeaglecrest@att.net <xeaglecrest@att.net> wrote:
>
> To view the signal strenth meter, Press the DISPLAY button and
> scroll down to OTHER
>

Thanks. My weakest signal is 93%, with most of the rest 98/99 %.

> I mainly use my TiVo's to do the inital recording and then later
> transfer

I record to DVD-Ram, then use the computer to eliminate commercials
and transfer the programs to DVD-R.

> shows to my Panasonic EZ-27. Last night there were several conflicts so
> I set two of them to record staight to the Panny and ran into the
> problem
> that another poster noted. They were back to back shows on different
> channels. When I went to check to see that the second show was
> recording
> OK, it was stuck in REC-PAUSE mode. I had to unplug the unit to get it
> unlocked. I ended up loosing the 1st few minutes of the show.
>

As I said in my earlier post, this problem holds for models EZ-17,EZ-27, and EZ-28.

> -Bill