JVC DRMH30S DVD Recorder with 160 GB Hard Drive (Silver)
Not ready for prime time.
On paper it looks good, but once out of the box it is a major disappointment.  You would expect to be able to record to the DVD and the harddrive simultaneously, but you can't, nor can you record to one while playing a movie from the other.  Several menus go a level too deep, but the real killer, is that it hangs up.  It just gets confused and the ONLY way out is to unplug it, so if you decide to buy this thing, make sure the plug is accessible.  As an example, last night I programmed it to record 3 one hour programs in LP mode to the DVD.  There should be room for four hours of recording and even if there was not, the excess is supposed to go to the hard drive, which in my case is virtually empty.  This morning the player was still turned on but in the 'frozen' state.  So I unplugged it, plugged it back in, let it go through its set up procedure, and then discovered that it had only recorded the first program and most of the second, but none of the third.  If that's the kind of performance you can live with, then by all means, get this one.  Oh yeah, it also turns it self on for no apparent reason, makes some kind of chattering noise like the read/write head is bouncing around, and you guessed it, the only way out is to unplug the piece of junk.  Can you tell I'm not happy?  It has now been six months since I made this purchase.  Getting it out into the open has helped some, it generates a lot of heat, sometimes even when it is off, getting it out of the cabinet helped some.  But it still goes into a 'chattering' state for no apparent reason, lights are off indicating it is not turned on, but something inside 'read/write head?' is making a noise that sounds like a repetitive 'seek' action. Sometimes just turning it on and back off stops the noise, and sometimes you just have to unplug it.  And yes, sometimes it still quits prematurely during a recording leaving you wondering what the last part of the program was about.  Contrary to comment above, I AM NOT A PAID COMPLAINER.  Just bought a Pioneer HDTV that works great.