RCA DRC8300N DVD Player/Recorder and VCR Combo
note the speed of the blank dvd's you use!
i bought this unit almost 2 years ago and am still very pleased with it. so far ive recorded over 400 movies to dvd (transferring from vhs and from satellite, tv). the quality of the picture is great and all movies susequently play well on my two other dvd players. looking at the other reviews i can tell i may be the exception. the unit has froze on me 4 or 5 times during finalization of discs, but after unplugging/plugging the unit continued to work fine. as another reviewer stated, u do need to be patient using the controls and not push too many buttons at once. the response is quite slow and too many commands seem to freeze the unit.  <br />a month or so ago i thought my unit had gone bad, every blank disc i was putting in it would say \\"disc error\\". i had almost given up and was ready to purchase another unit, and in a last ditch effort i decided to read the manual again. come to find out this recorder only works with blank dvd speeds of 8x or lower. i had not previously been paying attention to the speed of the discs when purchasing. by looking at the store shelves, most blank dvd+r media now are 16x, and the ones i had most recently purchased were 16x. looking back, i had ran into some compatibility issues with some blank 8x dvd's as well. i now have went back to 1x-4x discs and they are recording flawlessly. i would suggest taking this into consideration when purchasing this particular unit. 1x-4x dvds are getting hard to find, and i'm not sure they will be around much longer.