You are absolutely right, you can stop the recording by the red button, but you can´t change the recording time by 30-minutes-steps without the RECORD-key! Also you cannot start recording directly in tuner-mode without RECORD-key, you have to change to the guide-plus-menue. And finallly you need the RECORD-key for recordings from a camcorder connected

With "GO+Blue then RED" in tuner mode you will start a recording for 6 hours, no possibility to change the recording-time by 30-minutes-steps, therefore the RECORD-key is required. The RECORD-key is also required for recordings of external sources, p.e. from a camcorder connected on the front of DVD2. But I have found the solution (with your

Sorry, my above post is wrong, I have already checked the connections: The DVD2 has to be connected to Scart "AV". The integrated videorecorder is connected to Scart "VTAPE1". If you connect the DVD2 to Scart "VTAPE1", DVD2 doesn´t work. In the Sources-menue of the Avant, AV is set to DVD. If you change to VTAPE2

The DVD2 only works if you connect it to VTAPE-1 Scart-Connection. Connection to VTAPE-2, DVD2 doesn´t work at all. I have also tried to register the DVD2 as DVD, VMEM/VTAPE or V.AUX: always the same problem, the RECORD-key doesn´t work on DVD2, only will start the internal videorecorder in the AVANT.

GO + 1 calls the options-menue of the DVD2, GO + 2 calls the Guide-Plus-System, where you can program timer-recordings (no direct recordings from the actual tuner-program), GO + 3 is not available (shows X ERROR). If you press MENUE and then 5 (DVD) there is shown the DVD2-Menue which is helpfull if you have forgotten the BEO4-keys to remote the DVD2

Hello, I am owner of the DVD2 together with an Avant 32 VCR and I have a big problem with this combination: The RECORD-key on Beo4 doesn´t work with the DVD2, because only the integrated Videorecorder of the AVANT reacts by using the RECORD-key. Therefore it´s not possible to make records from a camcorder and to record directly from the