Panasonic DMRE85HS Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder with 120 GB Hard Drive Recording
Buyer beware; TERRIBLE PRODUCT!!!!!!!
I would have given it 0 stars if I could have.  This is probably the worst DVD recorder that Panasonic has ever come out with.  I had been using an older model for almost 3 years, and the features were perfect for home editing and recording.  I heard that some improvements were made, so I checked it out, since the one I had was getting old.  I returned it the very next day, because the so-called improvements are horrible.  If you are just an individual wanting to do home editing and recording, which is who this is marketed to, this is not the model for you! <br /> <br />The older models allowed you to create a playlist by placing starting and stopping points whereever you wanted them.  You could even create a playlist that showed the same thing 50 times straight in different time frames, if you wanted to.  Any editing you can think of, the older models could do.  But these newer models do not allow you to do that.  You must create chapters before going to make your playlist.  Then, however it is set up, that's all you have to choose from.  You create your playlist by picking which chapters you want, if you can even remember what's on those chapters by this point.  You cannot scan through and put starting and stopping points whereever you want.  Pathetic machine! <br /> <br />I'm sure that Panasonic sees these changes as an improvement, but they are not.  My suggestion is that if you want to do some actual editing, which is the only reason you would buy a DVD recorder with a hard disk drive and not a cheaper recorder without an HDD, buy one of the older models from ebay or other places like that. <br /> <br />Three Panasonic models that I know are safe for you to buy are: <br />DMR-HS2 <br />DMR-E80H <br />DMR-E100H <br />Go with one of these instead of the newer models!