Panasonic PV-HS2000 ShowStopper 30-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Great product but has serious limitations
I am very happy with the Panasonic PVHS2000 but wished I had bought the Replay unit instead.  I will not try to describe all of the delights of having a personal digital recorder...<br />I do want to note that Panasonic's version of the  Replay unit is different from the similar unit available from Replay.  The  Panasonic unit will not let you play copy-protected DVDs and video tapes.   It appears that they don't want anyone to copy DVDs and video tapes to the  hard drive for later viewing. This restriction was not prominently noted  and at first it didn't bother me very much.  I didn't intend to copy DVDs  and tapes to hard drive anyway.  It wasn't until much later that I realized  what a real contraint that was.<br />I have only have ONE S-video connector at  the back of the my TV.  The Panasonic unit is connected to the TV using the  S-video connector.  When I went to attach my DVD player, I found I could  not connect it to the S-video input of the PVHS2000 as it would not play  DVDs.  So I had to connect the DVD player to a composite input on the TV.   This meant that I could not take full advantage of the enhanced picture  quality of the DVD player. I had a similar problem with the VCR.  It could  not be connected to the PVHS2000 because some tapes are protected.  <br />So,  just be aware that the Panasonic version of the Replay system is NOT the  same as the original.  How many other differences there are I can only  guess at.