Panasonic DMR-E30S Progressive Scan DVD Recorder
Does what its supposed to...
This DVD recorder works fine.  It does what it advertises...it records DVD-Rs just fine and plays DVDs just fine.  Never had a problem with it once for any playback or recording.  It is reasonably user friendly and easy to use.  You can hook your VCR to it and record VHS tapes on to DVD.  You can hook your camcorder to it and record those to DVD.  Using SP recording format you get 2 hours of each DVD-R to record and the quality is good, even in LP 4 hour mode, the DVDs look good.  It's a Panasonic so you know the quality of the machine itself is solid.  I did not utilize the DVD-RAM feature, for right now there's no real need or market for this (YET).  So why only 4 stars and not 5?  Why did I end up returning it?  The inability to rewrite and edit the DVDs.  DVD-Rs can't, and although DVD-RAMs can, as stated above, this format/feature/technology right now is not there.  There is minimal to no compatablity on DVD-RAMs and there expensive \\"discs\\" compared to other rewritable fomats such as DVD-RW and DVD+RW.  So because of this non-feature, I gave 4 stars and went and bought instead a DVD+RW featured recorder.  One day when DVD-RAM becomes \\"IT\\" which I believe it will, I'll come back and buy one of these DVD recorders.