Pioneer DVR 220-S (DVR-225-S) Progressive Scan DVD Recorder - silver
I still feel like an early adopter
I finally bit the bullet and bought a DVD recorder.  Everyone is a DVD recorder expert and with competing formats, +R and -R, everyone has an opinion.  My opinion is that if it's -R, it works on every DVD player in the house and the new portable in the car (the old audiovox portable barely played regular DVD so it naturally choked on DVD-R (which is the pioneer uses to burn.)  So the first task has been to copy our ancient VCR collection to DVD.  Easy enough, but certain titles (Sixteen Candles and Field of Dreams for example) are copy protected and unable to burn.  As far as good news, it's got several rca (red/white/yellow) inputs, so I have my Directv DVR in one and my old panasonic VCR in the other.  Copying from DVR is a breeze as well.  Complaints are it took me a while to figure out how to wire it up and the remote seems overly complicated.