Panasonic DMRE85HS Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder with 120 GB Hard Drive Recording
Great recorder
The unit does a great job with very good quality in recording shows.  We like everybody likes raymond and the gilmore girls so i went on the channel guide to find when all of these are on and set up the recording accordingly.  The problem is that since this recorder can record so much I have too much to watch. <br /> <br />The channel guide is nice I just wish they would have some faster ways to navigate.  As you scroll through the programs there is no easy way of getting back to the top of the page that i know of so i have been quiting the guide then coming back in. <br /> <br />The channel skip is great to! what a nice feature just to be able to advance 30 seconds at a time.  I wish they had one that went back in time also! <br /> <br />The one thing i learned with some pain was the high speed dubbing mode (that needs to be set up before you do anything).  I had recorded about 20 hours worth of family videos from my vhs tapes and then when i went to burn dvd's I couldn't burn them in high speed mode because i didn't realize this had to be set up first.  So make sure you set this mode up first! <br /> <br />I have yet to use a dvd ram disk, don't understand why panasonic didn't throw one in. <br /> <br />Its also nice to have more than one video/audio in/out capability. <br /> <br />