RCA SCENIUM Digital Media Recorder with DVD Player (DRS7000N)
Wow....exceeded my expectations
I did a lot of reading, and there are a lot of people who were unsuccessful with this digital video recorder.  I'm now pretty sure the failures were most likely user error.<br />I'm a long time RCA customer, with a fully integrated home theater, based on RCA's wonderful brand.  I love having a true one remote (not macros) entertainment system.  This component fits right in, and really enhances the quality of my Home Theater experience.<br />Anyway, this unit offered me the bonus of adding RCA's \\"Scenium\\" double-scan picture technology available in current model digital RCA big screen sets to my 2 year old 52 inch analog RCA MM52110 big screen.  Wow....the quality of my Cox cable signals are now right up there with the off-air ATSC Digital signals I'm getting with my DTC-100 HDTV set-top.<br />I'm already a big fan of Guide+...works great here with Cox cable.  I even watched a DVD movie in progressive scan (of course), and the quality is on par with my former JVC progressive scan player....but now I can watch DVD-R and DVD+R material that I'm creating with my own DV gear.<br />The digital TV recording seems to be working quite well.  Even my wife was impressed....and that's a big deal.  We even copied some of the family photos to the recorder via CD-R/JPEG.  Works as advertised.<br />Kudos to Thompson...they did it right again (which is good, because the two different RCA 6100P DVD players I tried 2 years ago were garbage).