Panasonic DMRE50S DVD Player/Recorder , Silver
Have had unit for almost a year, recorded 400 dvd's
I purchased my panasonic dvd recorder in February of 2003.  For the most part the system has worked extremely well.  You do need to test and make sure the \\"finalized\\" dvd-r discs will be read by the dvd player you wish to play them on.<br />As far as discs, the quality and experience has varied.  I  have had mediocre results with Imation, Memorex.  I have had excellent results from Verbatim.  Most of my recordings have been on the DVD-R, but I also record on DVD-RAM, edit and copy onto the DVD-R discs(because they are less expensive).<br />The only issue I have had, if you begin to record, and stop recording quickly (15-30 seconds), the disc sometimes becomes unusable.  An easy solution to this problem is it let the  recorder continue recording for a minute or two, then stop the recording and the erase it.  <br />All in all, this unit has exceeded my expectations.  It has allowed me to copy many programs and films to dvd.<br />One other recommendation, I also purchased the Panasonic DVD player (Less than $100) that had a rebate ($30) that will play DVD-R and DVD-Ram.  So anything I record can be played on the player and watched, or (are you ready) can be played on the player and recorded on the recorder, for mixing dvd's or editing and then copying the dvd-ram recording to the less expensive dvd-r discs.<br />And, I have sucessfully been able to keep my dvd-r cost down to about $1.50 each, and the dvd-r to just above $4.00 each.