Panasonic PV-HS1000 ShowStopper Digital Video Recorder
Good Product
I originally bought this about six years ago, and it worked well.  Then I moved and didn't set it up again until a few months ago.  I was surprised to see how future-proof the system was.  It was able to recognize my new digital cable service and download the appropriate channel guide.  The remote is difficult to use at first, but with a little practice it can be mastered. <br /> <br />I do have some complaints, though. For one, there's the small amount of disk space (not their fault, when they made it that was a pretty big hdd). Also, when left on for a while it seems to start getting minor hiccups where it fails to detect the video signal and cuts out for half a second.  Restarting the device seems to correct it.  Also, when the device is recording a show and I fast forward through a previously recorded show at high speeds like 16x or 20x the currently recording show will skip a little bit in some parts.  Both of these problems are fairly insignificant, and are probably the result of the hard disk just getting old, as these things never happened when I first got it.  Overall, the product is very nice and I've gotten a lot of use out of it.