Panasonic DMR-E100HS Progressive Scan DVD Player with 120GB Hard Disk
Don't let the other reviews scare you!!
This Piece of equipment is excellent.  The manual is only difficult in the details.  You have to do a little cross referencing to find specifics, but it's not that bad.  Don't let the other reviews scare you.  Set-up is a breeze and you can be recording dvd-rs almost immediately.  The picture quality is excellent and it's so great to do all the burning in real time or faster (high speed dubbing is one of the items you need to dig in the manual for).  This is so much better than burning discs on a mac or pc.  No problems with out of synch audio or discs that won't burn properly.  Get this item.  You won't regret it!