Panasonic DMR-E55 menu problem

Is anybody using their e55 to record video camera movies?  If so are
you seeing any menu writing problems?  And what media are you using?
Are you using line input 1, 2 or 3?  Is cable hooked up for tv
recording?

It was Datalife Plus.  Check this out - I did a bit of testing and this
is what I found.  I called Panasonic and they had not heard of such a
problem so I took the unit back and exchanged it for a new one.  I
hadn't originally connected the first unit to cable since i was only
creating dvds from a video camera. So I hooked it up to cable, setup
the channels, etc and recorded some tv shows.  After finalizing, the
menus came out fine!?!  (on low and high quality media so we can take
that out of the equation)  I tested again with video camera as source
(on low and high quality media) and the menus came out fine!  Cool, I'm
happy, there's some weird requirement with cable being attached, I'll
deal. I tried with just an antenna hook up and no dice, bad menus.
Fine.  I go to bed, come back the next day, burn another dvd from a
video cam... perfect.  A couple hours later, I burn another from video
cam and whoa - bad f_in menu!!  I run another test because I had
disconnected the camera before finalizing, thought maybe the thing is
flaky that way but again - bad menu.  I'm at a loss.  I found a forum
where several other people had the same problem:
http://www.avforums.com/forums /archive/index.php/t-132230.ht ml
but no solution...
-dbc

On 7 Jan 2005 11:16:55 -0800, "dbc" <dave.b.chand @comcast.net>
wrote:

I haven't had that happen, but one disc I finalized isn't recognized
by my computer, though it will play on the Panasonic (E75) and another
DVD player. I blame it on the media (Memorex) though.

-
-Jon Purkey - <jonpur @aol.com)
 For a quicker reply by email please use the
 address found here: http://tinyurl.com/o8ka

On 7 Jan 2005 11:16:55 -0800, "dbc" <dave.b.chand @comcast.net>
wrote:

What Verbatim disc was it. There is a crap disc called verbatim
datalife which are really bad.

The datalife plus ones are the good verbatims.