Sharp DV-HR300U DVD Player/Recorder with 80-GB Drive
Nice unit - decent price - but lacks features
First off, don't take this as a reason NOT to buy this unit.  The player/recorder worked great right out of the box.  It records great to -RW and -R discs and to the hard drive.<br />The dubbing feature from the HD to the DVD burner is a little slow (it's actually 1x mode) unless you activate highspeed dubbing, but has a neat timing feature where you can schedule a dub from HD to DVD in the future.  I pop the DVD in when I go to bed and it's ready to pop into a stand alone DVD player when I wake up.  I was so happy to see that the DVD-R played in my 6 year old Sony DVPS-550S player!!!<br />My biggest beef is the lack of editing support.  You can edit scenes, add chapters, and move things around but the menu is clunky and it take for ever to change the name of a title with the remote control.  I now burn to DVD -RW, finalize the disc, and dump it onto my PC for advanced editing and then reburn to -R disc.  I was debating on whether I needed a HD unit or not.  A HD makes it a lot easier to use the unit as a VCR, which I have started to do.<br />Overall, VERY satisfied with this unit.  I was lucky to get it on Amazon for 379!!!