sometime in the past three months quite a few of the owners of this recorder had all sorts of problems,mainly lock-ups, loosing station memories and so forth, I being one of those. Thought I would return the unit to Sears,and hold off for,maybe an upgrade to this recorder.That was back in June [that machine had a March 2007 manufacturing date]. Three weeks ago was in Circuit City and noticed on the rear of the recorder a date of July 2007.... thought, What the heck, give it a new try-out. After salesman opened a new box for me [to check the date] I brought it home. Very glad I did. the unit is working like it should, from all aspects.Even on dvd-ram,no station loss [OTA]...Am on 23rd dvd recording of old home movies and such,with no problems. I've always been in favor of Panasonic since the Vhs, tv's and other of their equipment I've owned through the years. This might have some improvements the over March 2007 units. Thought Iwould post this,may help others,Good Luck!

Yeah date makes a difference, seems that alot of the late 2006 manufactured Panny 35Vs had DVD mech issues because for like 2 months at the beginning of this year I was getting alot of them in that needed mech replacements ... they all did the same thing too, the clicking noise when you start the unit up ...

I have a March 2007 EZ27.

My issue is the unit locking and sometimes the disc (Panny DVD-RAM) becoming unreadable.

It's very consistent.

If I record, or add a chapter, then play till the end, it locks and sometimes the disc becomes unreadable.

I can keep this from happening every time by powering the unit off and on after I record or add a chapter.

Last night I fell asleep while recording. I woke up, unit was locked. Powered off and on at the unit, disc was unreadable.

Any way to fix this?

tia

I just sold my phillips dvdr3455h because of the analog tuner. I was going to get the dvdr3575h as a replacement but it's sold out everywhere. Should I get a DMR-EZ27? They are going for nothing on Ebay. Do they record okay to dvd-rws or are dvd rams a must? Thanks in advance.

Well, if you don't plan on using the HDMI-out for upconverting to the TV, then the EZ17 does everything else an EZ27 does, for LESS $$.

HTH,
Raph

I ended up getting this recorder and man what a piece of crap!! The tuner makes channels look like total crap...It's slow as hell...has really few features when compared to my old phillips dvdr3455h, which now I wish I didn't get rid of..The only thing that's worth a damn is the upconversion which isn't really the huge leap I was expecting. I do not, repeat DO NOT recommend this piece of SH#T!

I've had this recorder for a couple of weeks now. My primary use is the tuner only and playing DVDs. I'm using the tuner to display tv on a LCD monitor. Regular cable feed and the picture looks very good. DVDs on my projector are also very good and sometimes I may use tv output on the big screen (picture is still great).
For me this not a bad piece of sh**.