A Title that was playing stopped at 1:26 and came up with the screen message:

Error E22
Cannot record to this disk

This was followed by

System Error
Please Power Off
SE 2 55

Pressing Power Off on the remote did nothing

Holding down Power on the unit did nothing

Pulling the power cord worked

After Power On the Title played correctly.

There are over 60 hours at EP left so no concern about storage space being low.

No disc in the DVD.

E22 is the error that a failing DVD recorder reports, but this had nothing to do with recording.

Any clues anyone?

What's the name and model of your hard drive based dvd recorder?

My bad, this was supposed to go into the Philips/Magnavox thread.

Will post over there and this one can die.