Panasonic DMRE50S DVD Player/Recorder , Silver
Guys, you'll need to read the manual....
I pride myself on being able to figure things out with the user manuals.  Not with puppy...Simple operations become a frantic search in the manual on how to do these things.  I haven't had any problems with discs compatiblities.  I bought a Sima SCC2 digital color corrector to compliment this unit.  With this I'm able to back up my videos and DVD's.  The quality on the XP mode is incredible, can't tell between broadcast and the dvd copy.