Panasonic DMR-EH50S DVD Recorder with 100 GB Hard Drive Recording
Serves My Purposes Just Fine!
Here is what happened the second morning after getting this dvd recorder:<br /><br />I was sleeping soundly when all of a sudden there came a thunderous crash! My face contorted in a wince. Without lifting my head off the pillow I knew what had happened. I had precariously balanced this unit on the narrow top of my television because I did not have any sort of a stable place that I could put it right away. I figured that it would fall off the tv before I could find a place for it and of course it did. Let me say that although it took a very nasty tumble (4 1/2  feet or more to the wood floor) there is absolutely no damage to it with regard to its performance nor to its outside looks that I can see. That is amazing to me!<br /><br />My local service is Charter Cable and I don't use a cable box setup.<br /><br />I use the TV Guide feature not so much to record from directly, but more as to find out what the future programming for any given channel might be. And then if I want to record something at a certain day and time, I manually set the unit to record it at that time. Setting it manually is not difficult.<br /><br />I absolutely love the hard drive in this thing! I can record directly to the hard drive and then edit the heck out of it! For instance, if I want to get rid of all the commercials from an episode of Columbo I just recorded from the Hallmark Channel it's not very hard to do so! And after all the editing is done I can burn the episode to a blank dvd media disk and then easily delete the whole thing from the hard drive, thereby freeing up more space for future recordings! Deleting/Erasing from the hard drive is such a tidy, fast, one-step process. I love that! Sometimes within an episode of something there might be only a portion of it that I want to keep (a funny 20 second moment in a Seinfeld episode for example); I can make a compilation disk ultimately of those funny moments I find on television if I want to do that.<br /><br />Also, before I forget, you can record directly to blank DVD-RAM disk media. I have not done this yet. As I understand it DVD-RAM is VERY flexible for editing on the disk.<br /><br />A couple of days ago I connected a VHS tape recorder/player to the Panasonic recorder and now I can take all those old VHS tapes and transfer them to the hard drive for editing and then to dvd. GREAT!<br /><br />Well, I don't really know what else to say about it, but I bet I'm leaving a lot out.<br /><br />This unit is worth buying if you want a lot of hard drive space and the ability to edit recorded material and then transfer it to dvd media easily.<br /><br />I give it a 5 star recommedation!RAM disk media. I have not done this yet. As I understand it DVD-RAM is VERY flexible for editing on the disk.    A couple of days ago I connected a VHS tape recorder/player to the Panasonic recorder and now I can take all those old VHS tapes and transfer them to the hard drive for editing and then to dvd. GREAT!    Well, I don't really know what else to say about it, but I bet I'm leaving a lot out.    This unit is worth buying if you want a lot of hard drive space and the ability to edit recorded material and then transfer it to dvd media easily.    I give it a 5 star recommedation!