Panasonic DMR-E55K Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder/Player , Black
Good inexpensive recorder with warts
It's a nice little recorder, but:  the disc menu it creates is broken - the background only goes a very little way down the screen, about halfway through the first row of menu items.  The rest is black.  At first, I thought it wasn't leaving enough room on a full disc, but I tried one only 3/4 full, and it did the same thing.  The menus still work though, and most will only have one or two items on them.  And as others have noted, the user interface needs a lot of work, though partly it's the interaction with the remote --- moving around the text entry menu, I have to push the remote buttons a couple of times often to get them to take.  If it weren't for that, it wouldn't be so bad.