Panasonic DMR-E80H Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder with Hard Drive , Silver
So far the best dvd recorder
Before my purchase of this dmr-e80h panasonic reocrder I read all the reviews I could get hold of in the internet. Several month ago I bought the Philips dvdr985 which to me was a big mistake; I had numerous problems with it. I finally decided to buy the DMR-E80H despite some of the negative comments about it.<BR>Having used it for almost two weeks at which time I was able to familiarize myself with what it could do, I will say this is one of the best DVD recorder around at its price range (there is a panasonic with 120 gb costing more $1000). It could do what I expect a dvd recorder should do.  As long as you read the manual thoroughly you should have no problem with it. The manual is very thorough in detail. I have no problem recording TV movies and keep them on the hard drive. I taped old home movies and was able to store them at long play mode with excellent result and very good resolution (4 hours of video in one disk).  You could edit and remove the commercials from the TV movies (by using the &quot;dividing method&quot;)in the manual. The bottom line is that this unit is good as advertise. I have not exprienced any of the negative comments I have read in some of the reviews. By the way, I hardly use the DVD-Ram disk which is the rewritable disk. After editing I usually just transfer the finished product (by dubbing) to a DVD-R disk. I used the Memorex DVD-R disk (not the one recommended by Panasonic) and it works in all dvd player I have tried including my laptop dvd player. I gave unit a 5 star as I could not find anything negative about it.