Customer Reviews

Panasonic PV-D744S Multiformat DVD/VCR Combo

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This isn't a review of the product. The manual clearly states what formats are supported on this unit, and is inconsistent with what is written in Amazon's product description. I pulled the following list from the PDF format manual that can be downloaded on this page. (+) indicates supported, whereas (-) indicates not supported.

+ DVD-Video
+ CD-DA
+ CD-R
+ CD-RW
+ FUJICOLOR CD
+ Kodak Picture CD

- PAL video
- Multiregion
- DVD-RAM
- DVD-ROM
- DVD-Audio
- DVD-R/RW
- DVD+R/RW
- CD-ROM
- CDV
- CVD
- CD-G
- CD-Text
- VCD
- SVCD
- SACD
- Photo-CD

In 3 hours of frustrated attempts to set up this Christmas present, I'm unable to get _anything_ to display on my TV; no setup screens for clock/tuners, nor even get the picture from a VCR to display (though it plays). The instruction manual provides icon images of buttons, but they don't match what's on the remote.

One single bulleted item says the remote only works with Panasonic TVs. I can only guess this means none of the Panasonic VCR/DVD features works with my JVC TV monitor(my 15 year old Logitech VCR changed channels and ran tapes fine).

A good buy! My Grandmother's TV has only a CATV input so this combo works great without having to buy a converter. If I ever buy a widescreen plasma display for Grammy, I can use the progressive scan component inputs as well! Anyway, I just hooked up the rabbit ears to the input and the TV to the output. I was up and running in no time!