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Old 09-07-2013, 12:31
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I have a DMR EX89B HD/DVD Rec which is a couple of years old and is used quite a lot for home made DVD's.

Yesterday, out of the blue it decided not to allow me to make any new chapter points in any of my playlists. It appears to be fine in all other respects, recording, playback, chaptering recordings directly etc, but all I get on a playlist is the message 'cannot set'.

The HD is quite near full, but there are only around 25 playlists on it at the moment and it won't allow new chapters in any of them. I tried deleting a few to see if it was because I had reached a limit, but no effect.

Its particularly annoying at the moment as I am a big cycling fan and every year I create a four disc set of highlights for the Tour de France, which I am right in the middle of doing each day.....until now!

Has anyone encountered this problem before or have any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Old 09-07-2013, 16:39
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Crisis averted!

In case this is of use to anyone else, here's what happened. The manual claims you can have up to 1,000 chapters in each of up to 99 playlists, so theoretically I was nowhere near that limit. Panasonic suggested resetting to factory settings, but as I would lose my playlists (though not the recordings) I chose not to follow their advice.

Just using the yellow button to insert a chapter mark kept giving me the 'cannot set' message, however using the menu when in chapter view to 'Create Chapter' gave me the message that I had reached the limit of chapters.: eek:

I tried to copy something to a Ram disc to finish it on my other, older, machine and found that, as if by magic, switching from HDD to DVD and then back again, it suddenly started letting me make more chapters!!!!!

So problem solved for now at least, although I am not sure why.....
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