I paid $300 this model last year. Within 10 months it stopped working properly. The DVD would play some discs but not others and gave me an error message that made no sense "Check disk to see if dirty." Some of the disks that got this message were right out of the manufacturer's box!! Some disks worked fine, so I thought it must be reacting to an anti-copying coding, or something. Then a few months later, the VCR started to chew up my tapes. I decided to throw the whole unit out. I would not recommend this model. I do not know what is going wrong with Panasonic. Quality control has gone downhill, judging by this unit.