Page 1 of R.I.P. Alas,, Poor Panny DMR-E30. I knew him well

well after about 4 years & thousands upon thousands of succesfull recordings, it seems all good things must come to an end.

the poor fella can no longer perform in the DVD Ram department, it can read em, but not format/erase them.

still plays & records dvd-r`s fine tho.

shame :(

This item was edited on Monday, 5th June 2006, 18:24

Don`t know too much about that model, but I think some of the older Panasonic recorders were based on their PC DVD writer drives (the LF-D311 comes to mind). If this is the case, you might be able to replace the failing DVD drive with a new PC one - cost about £30.
Since it still records to DVD-R, you could use it with a Freeview PVR or Sky+ box, just for making copies of things you want to keep permanently.
If you replace it with a new recorder, I suggest getting one with a built-in hard drive. You`ll never need DVD-RAM again.
I know how you feel though. My first DVD recorder was a Philips DVDR880 which died after only 8 months and had recorded less than 40 discs. I felt gutted although luckily it was still under warranty and I lost nothing. I think you`ve had your money`s worth out of your recorder.

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Philips DVDR880 which died after only 8 months
You mean it lasted 8 months!!!........Thats a record for that piece of junk.

This item was edited on Sunday, 11th June 2006, 10:58

minor update, it seems it can still record "some" ram discs, it just used a traxdata ram disc without issuue, but still wont record to official panny discs, wierd huh, still looks like the lasers on its way out tho :@(