Philips HDRW720 DVD Recorder with 120 GB Hard Drive
Be prepared to spend a week learning how to use it!
I was so excited when I purchased my unit from costco. I had everything plugged in and powered on, then I actually tried to use it.  Here are the problems I encountered:  1. The TV Guide does not work with Satellite  2. You cannot bypass the famous \\"Time Shift Buffer\\" to record directly to the HDD. EVERYTHING must past through the Time Shift Buffer (get to know this concept well).  3. So many buttons, so many modes!! On the remote we have a yellow, green, blue, and red buttons which change functionality based on which function button you pressed first. Don't pay any attention to the \\"Stop\\" button. Pressing STOP during a recording will not work and this was by design.   4. When recording a TV show, for some reason it decided to record at least 30 seconds sooner.  5. Once you have \\"recorded\\" it to the \\"time shift buffer\\" you must go through a series of steps of finding the title, marking it, then flushing it. Yes, you must flush it from the Time shift buffer to get it to the HDD. After it's on the HDD then you can \\"Archive\\" it to a DVD.   6. After this, I decided I'd rather flush it down the toilet and returned it to costco.  7. THE absolutely worst part was their very RUDE customer service.     After asking the person a very simple question, \\"How do I get the recording from the Time Shift Buffer to the HDD so I can transfer it to an actual DVD disc\\", the service person waited 5 minutes before saying a word.      Do you know what he said? \\"It's in the manual.\\"      I asked, \\"Which one? There are three.\\"     Philips had made errors in the original manual so they had to include 2 extra handouts to try to explain the time shift buffer.     And, get this, to manually stop a recording you have to push the info button then press the stop button twice!! WOW! super intuitive interface!! That's in one of the handouts.    I would recommend they hire an expert User Interaction Designer.     I would not recommend this system.    *******************************  I purchased the Panasonic DMR-EH50S DVD Recorder with 100 GB Hard Drive Recording from Amazon and it is AWESOME! Very easy to use!