Panasonic DMR-E80H Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder with Hard Drive , Silver
Great unit when it works
I have had this unit for 2+ years, and it is a terrific machine, until it breaks.  I too enjoy the high quality recordings, and the ability to record to hard drive, edit (get rid of those commercials!), and then record to DVD -R or -RAM.  However, my unit has recently stopped writing to DVD -R format, giving me the \\"Recovery\\" message, and then \\"Bye\\".  When I took it in for repair, I was told that it would be at least $320.  When I called the large store where I bought it, they told me not to get it fixed as it wasn't worth it, but rather to buy a new one.  Given that I have about 70 hours of stored programming on it, I really don't want to throw it away (it works well as a DVR machine now), but spending $500+ to buy it 2 years ago, and $320+ to fix it is way too much.  Panasonic should allow a trade-in allowance to one of their more reliable units.