Panasonic  DMR-ES40VS VHS / DVD Recorder Silver
Totally Cool
Works great, very good/clear picture, even tapes record very clear. Makes a little bit of noise, but I bought a Panasonic surround sound system to go with it, so I just crank some volume and the slight noise from the DVD player is a non-issue. Assigns chapters to DVD-R discs when you finalize them. I have experienced no picture breakup at chapter intervals, like some reviewers of the older model mentioned. Takes awhile to figure out all the stuff this unit can actually do, which is alot! It can burn copywrighted tapes to DVD by just running the tape past the copywright message and then push the dub to DVD button. Normal recording and playback is very simple to figure out. I wish it would dub tapes to DVD at high speed, but it won't. You have to wait for the whole tape to play. I LOVE the commercial skip button and the 200 x fast forward speed. Like I said, this thing is totally cool.