Panasonic DMR-HS2 Progressive-Scan DVD Recorder/PVR with 40 GB Hard Drive (Silver)
RAM let's you do it all.....
Coolest thing about this product is what RAM lets me do, and I did some research into RAM when purchasing this product and found out that both Hollywood filmmakers and now the military even rely on this stuff.  But for personal use, let's say you need to just edit home video that you just shot, you can actually edit the video right on the RAM disc.  Whether you actually shot on the disc or dump it from your camcorder, you can edit right there at your TV.  It's cool stuff - what happens is that the RAM just 'connects the dots' to the actual segments you want - whether a still photo, video, titles, etc.  You just drag and drop them around and put the scenes in the order you like.  So this means that you can shoot a movie in your camcorder and then take the RAM disc - if you have a DVD camcorder - or use firewire connection to the HS2 and edit the video.  When your done editing, you've never copied or deleted anything - all you have done is tell the machine where to find each one of the scenes on the disk - so all of your raw footage and the 'edited version' are still there!  Then if you want you can dump the finished video onto the HS2 hard drive to make millions of copies to cheap DVD-R disc to give to your friends.<BR>And like TIVO (which I love, but see that with machines like this - TIVO won't be around much longer) you can record TV shows to the hard drive using VCR Plus codes or by setting the schedule yourself, even a month in advance. So check one of these out; there great fun and you'll be happy you broke-up with your VCR...