Toshiba RD-XS35 DVD Player/Recorder with 160 GB Hard Drive
Satisfied
I've held off buying a DVR for a long time.  Having missed the Tivo lifetime sale and the price of them now on Ebay at $600, I decided to go with the Toshiba model.  It seems alot of people are complaining about the TV Guide feature.  There is one important fact about the feature, it's free!  I have no experience with Tivo or Direct TV or any other monthly service, my cable cost $20 a month and I wasn't looking forward to doubling that for a one year subsciption of Tivo.  As far as the complications of operatring the machine, I haven't had a problem trying to figure out some of the programming features, but I haven't gotten to all the features yet.  When deciding on buying a unit, crunch the numbers and decide for yourself what you want to do, lock into a contract or deal with imperfections.