Panasonic DMR-E50K DVD Player/Recorder
A great investment!
The wife &amp; I decided to hold off on buying a DVD player until they could record, and those units were more affordable. To the DMR-E50K I can only ask: &quot;Where have you been all my life?!?&quot;<BR>This is a great concept and a wonderful machine. <BR>I currently have 2 VCR's slaved to one another then channeled through this unit, the satellite receiver and either the DVD player from my home theater, my camcorder or my digital camera connected to this machine. It is not an overstatement to say that this device is the workhorse of our Media Center. And it's up to the job.<BR>Until I brought this out of the box, my wife was recording her craft shows to video tapes. Twenty-some of them, to be exact. This means that on a 6 hour tape, there might be 30-40 minutes of stuff she wants to save for future reference. Now, she can use the timer to record the whole show, but edit out the stuff she doesn't want to keep. Also, all those tapes will, someday, have the parts she wants to keep transfered to DVD.<br />As other reviews have noted, I am also transfering my old video tapes to DVD and simply based on the space I'm clearing up, this machine is worth the price.<BR>The only media problem I've ever encountered was when I bought the wrong format. Other than that, all the media I've used have worked well.