Sony RDR-GX330 Single Tray DVD Recorder
Yes yes finally a recorder that works!
I do lots of research before I buy. My research lead me to the Panasonic ES15. It reads and writes to just about every type of media. Bad choice. The tuner quality was horrible and the disks it burned were as bad as the tuner. It went back and I bought my second choice, the Samsung R130. This one only writes to -R/RW media but the picture quality was great. Unfortunately, the disks it creates can only be read reliably on itself. They wouldn't play correctly on my Sony DVD player nor my desktop (with two different drives and two software packages). What good is it if I can't play the disks anywhere except itself? <br /> <br />Enter the GX330. It was more expensive than each of my first two trys. This one writes to dual layer media though. Picture quality is great, maybe a bit better than the Samsung. But here is the best part. I can play the disks it creates on my other player and my desktop with zero problems! This player creates a menu on the disk that actually works! I haven't had a chance yet to play with all the settings when you finalize a disk but just plain vanilla out of the box worked great for me. It does what I need it to do. The quality is super. I couldn't be happier. <br /> <br />This is the player to get hands down!