This is our first DVD recorder. We have informed us in great detail, have read almost all the reviews and looked at the various units in the business. The external appearance of the Panasonic DMR-EH 56 we found a bit strange at first sight, others see just better, or quality of. We have the recorder now only a week and are totally satisfied. A very detailed guide makes getting started easy. Quick it has been found that everything is very self-explanatory menu. The operation is very intuitive and easy. The only tiny drawback: the OSD responds sometimes a bit slow, but as you get used to it quickly. The Aldi blanks run flawlessly. The quality of the recordings is super. One must not even use the highest resolution and still has no image distortion. Programming with the Guide Plus is pretty much the simplest thing you can imagine. No more anything else !!! The first time you have to bring about 2 hours time for Guide Plus. It's also great that the programs from the TV 1: 1 can take over. The annoying advertising in the movies you can easily delete work in a few minutes. The 160GB hard drive is enough to take approximately 73 hours of films in very good quality. The operating noise is extremely quiet at this unit. We are very satisfied.