Polaroid DVD Recorder with 80 GB Hard Drive & TVGuardian Filtering, DRM-2001G
Do Not Buy!
I picked this DVD recorder up yesterday because of the price, approximately $220.  I bought it as a second machine.  My primary DVD recorder is a Panasonic, which I've had for two years so far and have been very happy with.  It also cost about $450, which I didn't want to spend again--but I should have.  Prior to the Panasonic, I owned a Sharp DVD recorder, so I know my way around DVD recorders.  Despite that, this Polaroid DVD recorder has proven incomprehensible to use.  One warning sign: When you turn it on, there is a display asking if you want to use the TV Guardian (which filters out profanity, a selling point to some).  The trouble with it? There is only an option for OKAY, not a NO THANKS button.  I had to figure out to pop over to the set up screen and then back out to get rid of the TV Guardian window.  Indicative of the poor writing that should guide you through the manual, the TV Guardian window tells you: \\"This will be display five times.\\" <br />If you are buying a machine with a hard drive to edit out the commercials before you transfer TV shows onto a disk, I couldn't figure out how to do it from the manual, nor from playing around with the remote.  For anyone who's ever owned a DVD recorder, you can figure out how to use the machine from playing around with it as much as from the manual.  Not in this case.  Also indicative of the poor planning and user-unfriendly nature of the machine, on the remote, some of the buttons are named above and some below.  This machine is going back into the box and back to the store.