The EZ25 in question is now 12 months old and has been 'serviced' twice during this period. Both occasions the problems were put down to dirt in the machine. The fact that dirt can enter the machine and reach critical areas is in my opinion a bad design.
I have a number of discs which are scratched not because of mishandling but because the EZ25 has damaged them.
Despite the manual stating that it will record both +/- RW and RAM format discs it has always been reluctant to use +RW discs and more often than not reports them as unusable or unformatted, meanwhile a £50 cheapo from Argos happily uses the same +RW's.
Now the EZ25 has discovered a new trick, put a Blank RAM disc in leave it to record, Programmes 1,2 & 3 are recorded ok following the end of Programme 4 you switch the EZ25 on with a view to changing discs and promptly get a message saying the disc is unformatted!
So it appears instead of recording programme 4 it has somehow deleted everything from the disc including the formatting!
Panasonic will no doubt say there is nothing wrong with the machine and it's my fault for using bad discs, but the fact that 3 programmes were recorded successfully points to an error somewhere in the machine it simply should not wipe the disc completely clean in this manner.
I have a number of discs which are scratched not because of mishandling but because the EZ25 has damaged them.
Despite the manual stating that it will record both +/- RW and RAM format discs it has always been reluctant to use +RW discs and more often than not reports them as unusable or unformatted, meanwhile a £50 cheapo from Argos happily uses the same +RW's.
Now the EZ25 has discovered a new trick, put a Blank RAM disc in leave it to record, Programmes 1,2 & 3 are recorded ok following the end of Programme 4 you switch the EZ25 on with a view to changing discs and promptly get a message saying the disc is unformatted!
So it appears instead of recording programme 4 it has somehow deleted everything from the disc including the formatting!
Panasonic will no doubt say there is nothing wrong with the machine and it's my fault for using bad discs, but the fact that 3 programmes were recorded successfully points to an error somewhere in the machine it simply should not wipe the disc completely clean in this manner.
