Panasonic PV-HS1000 ShowStopper Digital Video Recorder
Good Product But DVD Owners Take Note
This product is certainly well put together. The box contains easy to read instructions and has all the necessary accesories needed to get up and running. Now in previous versions you could hook up a DVD player through the server. However now they discourage that and for a very important reason. Many of the new DVD's have copyright protection. If you try to play it through the server, it will stop you. Also the manual notes that this same copyright protection might eventually be used for broadcasts and provides a solution to the problem (using a spliter). On most newer televisions (within the past five years or so) there are two video imputs. The server will take one of them leaving the second for your DVD or VCR to play through.