Sony RDR-HX900 DVD Recorder with 160 GB Hard Disk Recorder
Could have got 5 star, but...
I've been waiting for a standalone DVD-Recorder for a long while as I find converting my MiniDV Tapes to DVDs on PC is too tedious process.    I've tried some high-end Panasonic and Toshiba models which I think are very good too but lack style and video quality found in this Sony model. So, I wouldn't complain about the price of this model as if you shop around you can get it for less than $700.00.    Many might complain about lack of features like recording a long title into multiple DVDs. For me that was never a problem as I can have them as different titles so I can record each titles to seperate DVD. It basically has all the features we ever get to use.     It's still not the perfect DVD Recorder I dreamed to have as it's far from what we can do on a DVD Recorder using PC. But the bottomline is, the video and audio qaulity is the best I've seen from any high-end recorders from Panasonic or Toshiba and it has great style and finish. It might also easily end-up being your best DVD Player.    I've been using it almost on a regular basis now for over 2-months and I have to say, I kind of mastered enough not to find any issues. The user iterface is very sleek and simple to understand. Quality is almost as good as the source recorded.