Lite-On LVW5001 DVD Plus Player/Recorder
A good recorder for the price.
This recorder is still hard to come by.  I have had about 30 days experience with it, and here are my thoughts.  The good: 1) Intuitive menu's that I have grown to appreciate 2) burns a disc successfully and plays on my 3 other dvd players in the house.  Here is the not so good: 1) 1 button record only records, for example, it does not give you the option of 30 minutes, 60 minutes and so on.  I wish it would.  2) It is finicky playing audio cd's.  This is a big drawback. 3) I think it takes a while to load the disc (I am not sure if that is representative of all recorders, but it seems a little long 4) It's odd that the S-Video port is not enabled out of the box.  You need to be aware of this before you return it. Hook it up to a composite video source first and then enable the s-video.  Lite-on has a good reptuation for their PC products.  This unit appears to have positive reviews overseas.