Panasonic DMR-E80H Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder with Hard Drive , Silver
i love mine!!!! - best thing I ever bought for myself
Actually, I have the next bigger model DMR-HS2, and have had it for several months now and love it love it love it.  I think the main difference between these models is the larger hard drive in the E80HS and the JPEG capability of my model.  Anyway, I wanted to respond to the person who was not sure if they liked theirs because of copyright scheme, power failure warning, etc.  First of all, yes, of course for DVD your are going to be up against copyright protection enforcement with DVD burners so this should not have surprised you.   (I have not had any problem recording movies from cable or regular TV at all so far.)  Secondly, don't worry about the power failure warning.  I have had several power failures at home in my presence, and there were probably more than I know, ad I have yet to lose anything that was already recorded on the hard disk.  Cannot ask much more than that from electronics.  Also, I have played the DVDs that I have burned on several different players and they have worked about 90% of the time so far.  (I have burned about 175 DVDs so far with my DMR-HS2 and a lot of that is condensed material from the hard drive where I have removed commercials, etc.) Here are two different things I like to do before going to bed:  scenario 1. set the timer to record something in the morning (and it is nice that you can set the time while something is recording without interrupting it).  Then when you are finished recording what is on right now, then set the unit to burn stuff from you hard drive that you have edited to a DVD-R, and go to bed.  2 hrs after the unit finishes burning your DVD it will auto shut off from inactivity.  Then in the am it will fire back up and start recording your am show.  Pretty neat!  Scenario 2 - Here is another (one that I am doing tonight actually):  set the unit to record on L3 where your cable box is tuned to a movie channel and have it record right to DVD-R (since there are no commercials) using FR speed (optimum for time selected), then set the timer to record on another channel now or some other time (could be regular broadcast) to the hard disk.  It will switch from DV, L1, L2 or L3 on its own. (Of course with a cable box, I am using a splitter on the coax cable at the wall so that I can route what is coming in on L1 around and bypassing the cable box, whereas L3 comes right from the cable box's RCA outputs.)  Can't wait to upgrade my TV - although my current Sony looks great with the output from this thing.  I usually record on SP, XP and mostly FR (variable) speeds.  Also archive a lot from VHS - works great. A real solid piece of electronics!