I took it for granted that I wouldn't have any problem with this, but how do you program an EH-75 to start recording when you are not going to be home and keep recording for 72 hours max (LP Mode).
I want to start at 5 PM Friday and end at 5 PM Sunday.
When you program manually you enter a date and a start and finish time.
There is not a date for the end time and there is no length of time.
I guess I could set it to stop and start every 6-8 hours but I don't want to take a chance on losing the beginning or end of anything.
The only other way I can think of would be to set it to start at 5 PM and end at 11 PM and make sure I get home to hit the record button.
But I am not sure about that. The manual says if you hit record 1,2,3 times it changes the length of the recording.
If you only hit it 1 time will it start and then keep recording until the HDD is full???
What am I not seeing? This can't be as complicated as I am making it.
I hope someone out there can point me in the right direction.
Thanks

You have a couple of problems. First, according to the manual, you can only record a maximum of 68 hours on the 80 GB HDD of the EH-75 in LP mode, so you can't get 72 hours. Second, timer recordings are for a maximum of 8 hours, so you can't use that.

If you start the recording manually, you can fill up the HDD with 1 recording, but the recorder will create a new title every 8 hours.

Do you use the TVGOS? If you do, you can use it to set the recording for every program listed during the 72-hour period (of course, there's that 68-hour limit). From my experience with Panasonic recorders and IIRC, if the programs are adjacent and the channel doesn't change there is no loss of programming, but I would try this beforehand to determine that for sure.

You still have that 68-hour barrier to overcome, though.

Good luck.

Uh...scratched head..why would you ned to record 72 straight hours of anything?

rgrzzara-
When I empty the HDD it tell me I have 36 hours and 14 minutes in SP and
72 hours and 29 minutes in LP. That is why I thought 72 hours was going to be perfect. Just in case I will make sure to be here and monitor the time towards the end and have a DVD-RAM in the machine.
And that reminds that somewhere in the manual there was something about if one media gets full it will switch automatically to another. I have to look for that.
The manual also says when making consecutive recordings you lose 15 seconds each side. But like you say probably nothing if it doesn't change channels.
The only part of using the TVG that bothers me is I would be relying on the station to be accurate with their start and end times.
I feel safer if Ican just let it go the whole time. And I know that the 8 hour break will be a PITA when editing, But the whole thing is going to be anyway
if I do it that way because I am going to have about 72 divide title, retitle, thumbnail, chapter and test.
I wish I didn't like Gene Autry movies so much.
Good thing I bought the extra RAMS today in case anything else comes up in the next 2(?) weeks.

Westly-C
It's not my fault they are playing all of Gene Autry's movies in order at one time.

I have the EH75V, and whenever I record two things consecutively from the same channel, and whether I use TVGOS or not, there's no more than a one-second gap between the two programs, if even that.

That being said, I'd still suggest starting the recorder and letting it run straight through. You won't take a chance on missing anything that way.

I took it for granted that I wouldn't have any problem with this, but how do you program an EH-75 to start recording when you are not going to be home and keep recording for 72 hours max (LP Mode)...Thanks
Short answer, you can't there is a max time limit for timer recordings. I recommend that you program it to start while you are not home, and to record for the max time length. When you get home, hopefully before the program timer ends, wait for a commercial, stop the timer recording, and start manual recording. The machine will create a new title every eight hours after that, if left unattended, but it WILL fill up the whole hard drive if you let it go that long.