Posted by Biz on 11/15/36 11:31

Make sure you arent getting interference from your cable tv connection, if
you disconnect all the extra cabling and play a recording, is the
interference still there? A bad ground can cause this to bleed through all
connections...

"HamNCheese �" <sorry_no_e-mail@none.com> wrote in message
news:hvcvm1hfd0qpu5csc1al3t5t9l496rjc20@4ax.com...
> >I have seen this very complaint about the Panasonic DVDR before in
> >these forums. Take it back and get an ILO DVDR05MU (not ZU) from
> >WalMart for $99.
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> Sounds like its a design flaw. I read the following on a customer
> website review. I may still try exchanging the unit for another of
> the same model; this may be one of these issues where it varied from
> unit to unit.
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> Like most home units of this type, the ES20 has a built-in cooling
> fan. It is barely audible, if at all. However, it is "visible": you
> can see RF noise from the power supply in your viewing and recording,
> especially in night or dimly lighted scenes. The noise is in the form
> of creeping gray bars that go up, down, slow, and fast, depending on
> the cooling fan's speed. When the fan is really slow or steady, the
> creepy bars fade away, replaced by a mild kind of static "frying" that
> you can see if you turn the machine on but turn the inpit signal off
> (that is, plug your cable box or any other source into an ES20 video
> input, tune into that input, but turn the cable box or VCR, etc., off.
> On the blank screen you'll see more than you ever wanted to know about
> the cooling fan). I can't fault the ES20 for this, becasue most home
> units work exactly the same way in this regard, and some are worse.
> Too bad manufacturers can't afford the 10-cent capacitors that solve
> this problem.
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