Doesn't look good. I did the Google search that YOU could have done and found one small ray of hope amid a lot of gloom:
http://club.myce.com/f181/u61-error-panasonic-dvd-recorders-fixable-243009/ - especially the 2nd post
http://www.techlore.com/forum/thread/20851/panasonic-dmr-es46v-error-u61
http://howtomendit.com/answers.php?id=131485
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/106-dvd-recorders-standard-def/1395173-dmr-es46v-u61-error-self-check-failed-message.html
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/106-dvd-recorders-standard-def/1158210-u61-error-when-off.html#post16856463
Anon, February 2017
