I did as recomended by Panasonic and took it to an authorised repairer, apparently it is a RAM fault and the repair would be just short of £200, so the only real option was to look for another machine only of a different make, as to me there is a question mark over this model, as all I did was to try to record on to a DVD+, formatted, I will keep this open in case I ever make any further progress on this.
Lionel Clarke
July 2010