Comments on: Panasonic statement on GuidePlus

By: tiggybear

tiggybear — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:37:21 +0000

I wanted to buy a Panasonic recorder this week and the one factor that stopped me was the rubbish GuidePlus+ system.
It’s something I would expect on a cheap supermarket branded recorder, not an expensive one. Rubbish indeed.

By: david

david — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:12:33 +0000

Guess what happenef to me when I wrote to Panasonic about Gemstar this month. They wrote back with exactly the same response as Barry.Twigger. 10 months after they sent him the response I get the same robbing off reply. One less Panasonic customer.

By: Dave King

Dave King — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:47:56 +0000

I’m attempting to investigate this from a data protection angle. I’m right in thinking that you have to provide some information before the adverts are activated? Well if this information constitutes personal data then it’s likely that the adverts will constitute direct marketing – they’re being delivered to you as an individual. Section 11 of the DPA98 entitles an individual to opt-out of direct marketing delivered ‘by whatever means’.

Getting a response of out Panasonic isn’t easy though, they came back to me with a very simple reply stating that they don’t serve the adverts but I’m still waiting for them to clarify who the data controller is for the adverts.

By: Allerley

Allerley — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:02:29 +0000

My panasonic epg just shows two grey boxes where others see adverts. Is this something panasonic have recently changed? I’d much prefer to see vision and audio from the currently tuned channel. Every other epg system ive used does this so when I bought my 3D telly and derided to go for panasonic I’m annoyed to find two grey boxes instead of current channel. But at least it’s not showing adverts

By: Richard Blair

Richard Blair — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:46:51 +0000

I had the same standard response from Panacronic.

My dad, has the small screen large advert issue as well after getting a Pan HHD recorder. It was ‘the worst decision he has ever made’ to buy a Panacronic.

They don’t give a monkeys either, my advice, buy Sony.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 16 May 2011 21:16:04 +0000

The advert crap has stopped me buying Panasonic.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:52:18 +0000

Because I only have 19 inch screen in the bedroom ,now the guide is smaller becuase of these wretched adverts i cannot read it from a distance this would not be a problem with the guide on full screen like it is on my larger panasonic tvs’ am frustrated to see it cannot be disabled would not have bought had i known

By: Shanne

Shanne — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:19:35 +0000

Due to these reviews, we have chosen not ot buy this product. The advertising would drive me insane. Poor show Panasonic. And thank you reviewers

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:48:47 +0000

I was just about to buy a 37″ Panasonic, then remembered the problem of adverts on the EPG.

I find this very irritating on my parents LCD TV, so I shall have to choose another brand now.

Panasonic have this habit of introducing irritating little features to otherwise good products. A fine example is the electronic circuit they just added to their camera batteries, which makes it difficult to buy a sensibly priced non Panasonic spare battery.

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:55:00 +0000

Sounds like it’s time for some enterprising hacker to tinker with the firmware.
It’s not as if that doesn’t happen all the time with computers – the BIOS on my laptop has been patched so it won’t baulk at non-IBM WiFi cards, for example.