Panasonic DMR-EH50S DVD Recorder with 100 GB Hard Drive Recording
As advertised
I agree with most of the things in the reviews, I will just address a few differences:    1.- TV Guide works without a Cable Box (that's what I have and it worked fine, but it does take about 20 hrs to download and may require extra fiddling with it...mine told me there were 4 different downloads so please tell me which one is your cable company...after that I had to wait another 3-4 hrs) but after that it worked as advertised.  Organizing the channels in the order I want takes a while.  Check with your cable company if the TV guide thing is a must for you...it makes life easier, but you don't really need it if you know when your favourite TV shows play (use your computer and the internet ... not big deal)    2.- It's a somewhat complex (compared with a toaster) machine, so obviously the manual es extensive...but if you finish Highschool and read carefully you should be able to figure it out...I don't understand the reviewers that complained about it...yes the manual could be better, but it's not advanced calculus!!    3.- My $35 DVD player has much more options to play a movie than this thing, that was a let down. I can't \\"zoom\\" for example, it's not as easy to call the movie menu or to advance to a particular scene.  It takes a few more buttons to turn own the subtitles or change the language/sound on a movie...but I guess otherwise the control would be too big...but still, it could have been made more efficient...so it is really geared to record stuff.     4.- I tape TV programs mostly, 'cause I am never there when they play live, I don't dub VCR tapes to DVDs or mess around with pictures or MP3 (those I do all in my computer) so I don't know how those features would work for you.  But if you want something that tapes from your TV, the Hard Drive really delivers, you can record over 100 hrs of TV shows (so if you are gone for a couple of weeks it's great, my VCR stops at 8 hrs tops!)  But really that's all I got for $350, so all and all I'm still not sure it wasworth the money.    5.- Delivered very fast from Amazon