ianholm

I had a Panasonic DVD recorder and just bought a Panasonic 5-disc changer. Now the remotes control both units at the same time (e.g. press power on the recorder remote and the 5-disc powers on at the same time). Is there anything that can be done about this?

Brian Shannon

Well sometimes there are switches or different buttons to deal with this. I have Sony components that seperate the functions. If not then you may need to get a macro recording remote and program it for each seperate box and use that.

Spiky

You can get a remote (MX-850) or IR system (Xantech) with zone control that will control each independently. A simple macro setup won't work since they will still respond to the same commands. This may be a little pricey, also.

Search out Brian's idea first. I don't know about Panny's system, if it allows for different remote IDs. Most TV and VCR systems do. And satellite boxes. Just not sure about DVD players.

ianholm

Thanks for the suggestions. Looks like I'm stuck.

Brian Shannon

Well, hate for you to be stuck. Decide which one you need the remote for, most likely the dvd recorder. Then take some black electrical tape and cover the ir window on the cd player and operate it manually.

matome

Yeah, that's a sucky situation. I while back I had two JVC VCR's and they operated on the same remote frequency. Luckily one of them actually had an a/b remote channel switch which worked great. Haven't seen that in any of my new components.

Sonicflood

You can change the code on the Panasonic

Look in your manual. My Panny DVD recorder has a menu option to switch remote codes to allow interoperability of multiple units. There is a key sequence on the remote too. Don't have the manual in front of me or I'd look it up for you.

Sonic

Brian Shannon

Good to know, there you go ian

Sonicflood

Not sure which model you have. Here's a scan from my manual:

http://www.gulfwinds.com/panasonic_manual1.pdf

EDIT: I'll host this for a day, then delete.

Good luck!

Sonic

ianholm

OMG thank you so much! It worked like a charm. I lost the instructions for my recorder a long time ago (DMR-HS2) and never thoght they had this type of feature. I've been folding a piece of paper over the IR eye for the past year and a half. Thanks again for posting the instructions as well.

Spiky

Didn't realize you didn't have the manual at first. You should be able to download it from Panny. They have recent ones available.

Sonicflood

They (Panasonic) don't have all of the manuals available on-line. Mine wasn't, so I scanned mine.

Sonic

ianholm

Thanks, they still have my manual online, so I downloaded the PDF. I wonder if I can change my 40GB hard drive to something bigger.

Sonicflood

No, it won't work. The unit will only format to the original HD size, no matter what size HD you put in it. It's a part of the bios that can't be hacked.

Sonic