Panasonic PV-HS2000 ShowStopper 30-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Unreliable at first, but...
Mine has failed for the second time in two years. I bought an extended warranty, so I could box it up and send it back to the repair shop in Illinois AGAIN, but this year I bought a new, pre-formatted replacement hard drive, and installed it myself.    The recorder now has 120 hours of recording capacity versus the original 30 hours.     It was still working well when I \\"cut the cable\\" in late 2010 and got a Roku, you know, for Netflix and Hulu plus.     I need to sell my Showstopper.