These Liteon 5005 DVD recorders are sensational.They make beautiful recordings as good as Sony's for a lot less money.You can update the firmware and they can be set to be REGION FREE allowing playbacks of DVD's from throughout the world.Very easy to use the guider button makes it a snap even if you never operated a dvd recorder before.

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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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It did work for awhile. Now it doesn't even power on.
I expect a product less than 3 years old to last quite
a bit onger before it completely dies. Into the trash it
goes. I'm not going to waste my time trying to fix it.

Does anyone know what company made "Go Video."?

I'm sure the pice of junk came from China or somewhere
overseas. My mistake for buying into it.

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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 to copy VHS to DVD. I thought is was high quality because it cost so much. VHS player is terrible quality. So I don't use it for that. It finalizes recordings for half an hour. I'm stuck with it. I won't buy Sony again because I feel ripped off. DVD fast-forward and rewind is ridiculously slow.

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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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The quality of recording is great but their are TWO BIG PROBLEMS: ONE: The manual is the worst I have ever read, inexcusable in today's environment. TWO: The system is incredibly difficult to setup in order to receive TV Guide and each time you don't setup properly you have to start all over again - come on Panasonic - you guys are smart enough to develop a better system! Unless you are a gadget freak and have a lot of time on your hands to talk with Tech service save your money and get another simpler unit.

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3 months after purchasing this Phillips DVD player it started acting funny. It would be temperamental about which discs it would play despite all of them being authentic USA DVD's purchased from Borders or wherever. More than half the time you put a disc in the DVD player now, it just freezes with the screen saying "loading". It wont respond to anything so you just have to unplug it. This has even been the case with brand new DVDs so it isn't due to scratches. As of yesterday, the screen will go blank and then turn to a green flashing screen sometimes when in the middle of a movie or it will slow down to slow-motion and stop responding. This is the 2nd Philips DVD player I've owned, the first was the exact same model and crapped out in the exact same with within 6 months.

I would strongly suggest looking at other DVD players. This one is cheap, lightweight, thin and stylish, but it simply doesn't work. I will not buy Philips brand electronics again.

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