Panasonic DMR-ES10K DVD Recorder , Black
I'll give it four stars
I'm not going to say what's already been said so I'll just give my pros and cons about it.    Pros:  Renaming recorded titles on discs is easier because you can press certain buttons like number 1 to take you to a row of letters & numbers with the onscreen keyboard. (example: push 1 to take you to the row with ABCD abcd 1234 etc.)  Auto time and date set.  Three S-video connections two in back and one in front.    Cons:  No auto chapter skip markers until after the disc is finalized (which is only 5 minute markers). But this isn't much of a big deal because with the \\"time slip\\" feature you can quickly get to the end of a disc to make sure everything recorded ok. And after its finalized you can just input the chapter number. So let's say you want to go to 3 hours into the disc just punch in the chapter number like 10 for example.    All discs have to be finalized in order to work with other DVD players including -RW which can still be \\"formatted\\" and used again of course. I don't like this much because the Liteon I had recorded discs that didn't need to be finalized before they would play on any other player at least for RW.    Disc speed (quality) is not displayed onscreen so you'll have to look at the recorder to know what speed you're in.    No zoom for DVD movies.    No DV link for people with those type of camcorders that use it.    Not really a con but this unit has no fan in back. It has one air vent in back and two on the sides. I wonder if heat could become a problem later.    Other then all that it seems like a pretty good recorder despite it won't record macrovision VHS. And for now there is no hack for it.    Update: Last Thursday 2/12/09 it officially died. Too bad. I was expecting it to last longer.