Philips HDRW720 DVD Recorder with 120 GB Hard Drive
the worst piece of consumer electronics i've ever owned
I bought this about a year ago; for a month or two, I was happy with it.  It was a perfectly fine DVD player, the DVR functionality worked well.  (The DVR functionality wasn't as well done as what I hear from my Tivo-owning friends, but it seemed acceptable.) <br /> <br />Then it crashed, and forgot the channel listings it had stored up, and forgot what I'd asked it to record.  And it happened again, and again, sometimes throwing other misbehavior into the mix (individual channels dropping out of the programming guide, which admittedly may not be its fault; not stopping a recording when it's supposed to).  And it can silently not record programs for a week, if you don't notice that something has gone wrong.  It's simply not a reliable way to record a program; it works most of the time, but that's not the standard that I want my equipment to reach. <br /> <br />And now it can't read DVD's, either.  Really, this thing is just a piece of junk.