JVC DRMH30S DVD Recorder with 160 GB Hard Drive (Silver)
Not pleased.  Owned 6 mos. and I'm ready to replace it...
This thing is only good in theory.  All the specs look good, but it is unreliable.  Freezes and reboots plenty.  After a couple of months the DVD drive door dropped open and hasn't closed since.  Program scheduling is convoluted and tempermental.  I couldn't get it to record a regular program at 11:00 am M-F unless I created a second regular program to \\"wake it up\\" at 10:57.   <br /> <br />There's one thoughtful feature that creates a library of all the programs you record to DVD but, like everything else about this device, it is unreliable.  There appears to be no ability to backup or download this data or upgrade the firmware as appears to be necessary.  The JVC website was utterly worthless as help. <br /> <br />When I copy a program to DVD extra frames of video creep in and push the audio out of synch.  MP3 audio and a few other DVDs won't play at all.  High Spped Dubbing only works with SP mode.  That's just stupid.  Many aspects of the navigation are poorly designed.  The cable box control does not work with my Dish Network box. <br /> <br />Using the remote to name ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING is tedious.  Television programming now has id tags but this machine does not know it.  All the letters and symbols are placed on an open pallette and navigating it is very tiring and unintelligent.  Picture quality is very good, sound is good enough.