Panasonic DMR-E50K DVD Player/Recorder
Works as advertised    -when it works
I finally broke down and bought this recorded when it was on sale on this site in early August.  My DMR-E50(P)K experienced a drive motor failure in less than four weeks of my purchasing it. (Quality Control issue with Panasonic).  It took 14 days to get it fixed through a local authorized service center.  Up until that time it was working pretty well.  I found the unit reasonable easy to operate.  I have used Maxell, Sony and Fujifilm DVD-R&#146;s without a single disk failure during recording or disk finalizing.  The finalized DVD-R&#146;s do not play on my less than one year old Apex AD-1200 DVD player, but do play on my two plus year old Samsung DVD-511 player.  Despite some of the hype, I have found the video quality to be only &#145;good&#146; even in the XP (one-hour/disk) mode.  Certainly not as good as a high quality VHS tape recording from which a disk had been recorded.  The digitization effects (ie. visible pixels on contrasting edges and within flesh-tone colors) are fairly noticeable.  Overall, I will be satisfied with it, as long as there are no more mechanical problems.