Toshiba RD-XS52 DVD Player/Recorder with HDMI
Good Recorder
This is a good player, good DVD recorder and a good hard disk recorder.  My only gripe is with the menu structure.        Since this DVD Recorder does so many things, the menus are complex.  Although the you eventually figure out the menus, there are about three or four different menu buttons that send you in different directions, and sometimes intersect.  This is a very confusing layout.  It works - but it should be more consistent in the menu structure.  (Examples - sometimes the blue button saves, sometimes the orange button saves.  Other times the Orange button returns to the prior menu.  Setting thumbnail is sometimes done from the quick menu button, but not other times...)  One button that gets you everywhere would be better.     The folding remote is a nuissance.  Most of the editing and setup funcions require you to unfold it.  This is minor, but I thought I'd mention it.      I ran into an HDMI incompatibility.  On a JVC 52 inch TV the HDMI reported an error and would not transmit sound or video.  I I was never able to resolve the problem on the JVC 52 inch.  Note that it worked fine on the JVC 61 inch.  I exchanged TV for a 55 inch Sony TV.  By setting the sound to PCM, the HDMI worked fine on the Sony.