Panasonic DMR-EH50S DVD Recorder with 100 GB Hard Drive Recording
Problems to consider
If you buy this box, which seems to be the best of a set of weak products, you may want to know how to fix problems:  After three weeks my TV-Guide Function disappeared.  I pushed the TV-Guide button on the remote and nothing happened.  Pushed Setup button and navigated to TV-Guide and the screen went blank.  The rest of the machine worked fine.  Was the box broken?  Unplugged the DVR, waited a half minute, plugged it in and was told to do TV-Guide setup.  Within a day recording operations were back to normal.  If this TV-Guide reset/failure occurs periodically as other DVR reviews suggest then you will miss scheduled recordings occasionally. <br /> <br />After making DVDs from my VHS tapes of family events the resulting DVDs could not be copied by ordinary software like Roxio 7 or Veritas 4.6.  Once deleted from HDD my titles could only be recaptured as a playing DVD, i.e. as analog input with loss of menus and quality.  Panasonic EH50S then let me make a DVD from what it had recaptured.