User guidance deficient, probably additionally defect in the unit

For user interface / usability:
- The EPG data load only sporadically and thus not available as a complete list. When the selected program but even dials / activated so that it appears on TV, load the data. Ie each time a program select so that the data also transferred and displayed. Impractical.
-the "real" recording time extend with additional buffer minutes. Nothing is more annoying than missing minutes at the end of a program. So the Ztugabe of an extra quarter of an hour. This is, however, not directly in the recording programming, but only out of this menu and go to the Home menu, edit the recording there. Has what of "pure - out - purely - out". I found very inconvenient. (You can, however, add a flat rate time, but then as the default setting is always valid and is applied in every shot)

Possible device errors:
For example, four Senungen recorded successively, the file list also all indicated in each case with the occupied space on the hard disk, but only the very first shipment could be played. I have no way found the content to show. Whether it is a defect I can not say, but I suspect it. If all the records are displayed in a list and can also be selected, these should also be playable, and not only the first of the list.

All in all I gave the device back and again chose Panasonic (DMR-BCT745).
Yes, it costs more, but it has a highly intuitive user interface and allows direct editing of the recording parameters. Can write BD, good for archiving.
Loads the complete program data automatically.

Summary:
The handling is easy all of a piece with the Panasonic. Clear recommendation for Panasonic.