When I bought this unit,it seemed to offer the best performance for the money. It was new on the market, and there seemed to be more customer complaints on more expensive Sony and Toshiba units. It was cheaper, far easier to use, and produced better video quality than a terrible Phillips unit it replaced.
As in other reviews, after a year or so, things started to go wrong. First, on an intermittent basis, after I loaded a blank disk, it would prepare it for recording, then read out "stop" mode, but you could hear the disk still spinning wildly in the drive. When it was doing this, it would not stop, or go into the "record mode" until I turned the unit off and on, often numnerous times. Frequently the recorder would not turn off without cutting the power to the unit. Some time after this began, all timer recordings failed. Most failures resulted in disks that could no longer be used- the unit would neither load, nor initialize them if the original recording process aborted. Recording quality als...

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Don't buy SONY! After owning this product for little over a year, it fails to read any disk. All disks, commercial, -r, -rw,+rw, even disks it has created on it's own, generate the "disk error" message. Brand new disks (straight from the packaging) even generate this message now. Sony was uninterested in assisting me, simply telling me to send the unit in, at my cost and they would let me know what it will cost for repairs. Best case scenario was over $120.00 plus shipping. Costs could be $300.00 or more. Or course then they could keep the paperweight and I could tell them not to repair it. Don't take my word for it, before you buy Sony, google "Sony disk error" and see how many hits you get. The most knowledgeable claim the problem is a faulty laser assembly, which Sony is aware of but refuses to make right. I realize things do not last forever, but modern electronic equipment should function longer than 18months. I don't see myself ever purchasing another Sony product.

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I'm looking for a new unit because this Go Video product is worthless. Even if you try tech support you are not going to get any response. All the functions relating to programming a recording on the VCR side do not work. I don't even bother with the DVD recording side. As as simple player it is ok. But, who knows, tomorrow that function may disappear. I don't recommend buying any Go Video product

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Very happy that I got to archive my old home VHS to DVD with great results.

Great features:
This is an excellent entry-level DVD-recorder. The TV Guide feature is the reason to past over Panasonic cheaper brother the E55s which just have the VCR-plus feature. TV Guide is a simpler and free version to TiVo. It has an on-screen menu of the channels including title, time, info and the option to record. Sadly, TV Guide feature only work for antenna broadcasting and basic cable. Digital cable and satellite users might have to invest more money into a TiVo recording device (lack of component input here).

The recording quality is great, which is almost the same or lesser then the original, but never better. I transfer old VHS home video to this device and it was easy with excellent quality. Recording TV programs through the antenna is simple, but the quality depends on your reception. DVD-r is more common then DVD+r. I use XP or SP mode (1-2hrs) for VCR transfer, and LP or EP m...

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I bought this unit and it worked great for about a month. Thank goodness I bought an extended service plan. It started having what looked like signal disruption lines going through the pictures. I would click stop and then play gain and it would be fine for a little while. It also began sticking on the subtitles. The movie would go on with the subtitles still stuck at the previous clips. The last thing it started doing was moving very slow frame by frame on its own. I would have to forward it to get past it. These were brand new DVDs that played fine on my cheap $40 player. I took it back and would have been happy trying another but the store was out of stock and the item is discontinued so they offered me a Panasonic DMR-ES35V. So far so good with this one. It's working great and the remote is a lot easier to use.

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Strengths: This is a great DVD recorder, easy to edit and program, really sharp DVD's, the best electronic equipment I ever had (I did not try a progressive mode, because I have a regular TV).

Weaknesses: TV Programming Guide does not work for digital cable boxes (but I don't really need it). There is a half of sec. delay between chapters, when you copy directly to DVDs (you will not have it if you turn off Auto Chapter). There are no digital audio input ports.

(...)So, now I can play all my video files from the HV-670 removable hard drive (or from the RDR-HX900) on my TV. I can also record TV programs on the RDR-HX900 hard drive and copy them on DVDs (and from these DVDs to the HV-670 hard drive). From the HV-670 hard drive I can copy files to/from my computer.

If I need to copy anything from the HV-670 hard drive to the RDR-HX900, I just play the file on the HV-670 and record it on the RDR-HX900 hard drive. I think this is a perfect combination of all options, you ever dre...

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I purchased this machine to replace my Go Video DVD Vhs recorder which gave me problems from day one. This machine does beautiful copying on tape or dvd disc, and also is wonderful for transferring one to another. It uses several types of disc, which is convenient to the "electronically gifted". The machine has just a few flaws though, for one thing the instruction manuel is one of the most CONFUSING things I have ever read. Also, when transferring from tape to disc, you cannot edit by pausing. The remote control is like most, it has almost too many buttons too close to each other. But this machine DOES make beautiful copies on all speeds,and does not freeze up or distort sound like the Go Video. To finish, if panasonic were to ask me what they could do to improve it, I would only have a few suggestions, all which would just make it EASIER, Not more complex!

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I purchased this item from Computer Brain - fully expected to not get it by Xmas - as I ordered just the week before. It came with 3 days to spare! Hookup was easy and straightforward, there was a special running so I purchased the lifetime TIVO advanced service - well worth it. I've scheduled items to be recorded on the TIVO from the web, and downloaded items to my laptop and desktop PCs. I used a USB wired Ethernet adaptor that plugs into my wireless bridge (Along with my XBOX and XBOX 360). They all coexist over the wireless ethernet just fine.

The subscription or "season pass" functionality is just awesome. I no longer watch live TV - I have the TIVO record it at the quality, frequency I want and watch the TIVOed shows. Never understood why people raved about them until I had one. The DVD burner works great - just two minor gripes - it would be really nice to have the ability to mark a begin and end point in a show and record just that - I'm not talking advanced editing, just a couple ...

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This was the first DVR recorder my fiancé and I had purchased. We wanted something besides Tivo and decided to go with this. We bought it in October 2005 and at first it seemed great. We were a little wary of the bad reviews, but everything was working fine and we loved it. But then around January it started acting up.

The TV Guide listings weren't updating as frequently and so we switched to manually scheduling shows to record. That worked fine for a while, but then it wouldn't record a lot of the scheduled shows unless the DVR was turned on...we think it was downloading the TV Guide listings during the times it wouldn't record. Turning off the TV Guide solved that problem. And then a few weeks after that, it began recording the PBS station instead of the stations it was scheduled for - if it was scheduled to record channel 6, the display showed it was recording that channel, but it was actually recording PBS. It became so frequent that whenever I had a show scheduled, I had to check it and make...

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I bought this dvd player back in 2003 as a suggestion from a friend. it plays .avi and .divx files i burn onto a dvd. it also has an easy code to make it region free. which again is awesome cause i have a lot of region 2 and 3 movies. i never had a problem with this player. it has always worked. the only thing it doesn't like are mp4 files. don't know if there is an update for that. it is a little dated being from 2003 so it has no hdmi out put. but if you are looking for a good player that will last you a long time, i suggest this. i have had mine for 6 years and love it.

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