Toshiba RD-XS34 DVD Recorder with 160-GB Hard Drive
next time i will do my homework before i buy
i'm in a hurry so here's what i got...    got this recorder a year ago.. and love it. everything was working great... easy to use, awsome movie quality. here's the \\"but\\",    1. i don't know about you guys, but i this recorder use a lot of juice if you record regularly. the bills just blew my mind away. stop using. only use it for things that i needed to.    2. agian, i don't know about you guys, but my doesn't have a day light saving feature. i emailed toshiba, but they don't know. took it apart, reset the battery. later on i put a switch in the back to reset the time.    3. within that one year, i have had 2 times that my hdd have corrupted on me. while recording, power went out. boom everythings gone, and the second. while recording(while im not home) someone turned the power off.    4. the dvd drive is acting up now. can't detect any blank disc, but ok with the disc that have been recorded.. or store movie disc. i checked for a new dvd drive, when i saw the price. i just can't believed it. it's almost the same price as the recorder itself. i did buy those disc cleaner, but no use.. i tried to replace it with my other dvd drive, but won't startup.    5. you can't replace the hdd with your own. i've tried the pings, no use.    6. if the shows or the movies is copyright protected you can't copy them to disc.    7. you can't transfer ur own dvd's movie in to the hdd, other then it's own.    8. the dvd format or the file format, is hard to convert to other formats. it've been awhile now and i forgot what is the file format is. i was told that it's the latest file format for dvd movies and is a lot better then .vob. i gave up on that, maybe now there's such a utility that can convert it's format to others???. if you are like me on this part, do ur homework first.    9. i finally stoped using it, after i switch from cable to satellite. i just don't have the time to set every tv shows( every season tv shows moved up and down the time slip) or turn the satellite channels.like the other users said, do ur homework first. check with ur sat. or cable to see if they support your tv guide.    those are the things that i was hoping that it have. recap: rit now im searching for one that let me transfer the movies from the hdd to my pc and im looking for one that support both formats on the disc. that format and vob, but mostly i want one with vob and let me copy any tv shows, movies on to disc, afraid that the hdd will crash agian,,,and and also let me transfer my own dvd movies  on to the hdd.    peoples that might do the same things that i do...  - share game plays, projects, and family clips on to the net. don't really like capturing hardwares, don't have the time.  - like to backup the hdd with my own.  - need a cheaper dvd drive.    ok, thats a lot of negatives, and agian this is for those people that might do the same things that i do... im hoping that this will shed some light on those people...