TOP: to play the video tape collection on the recorder can be done in the simplest way via a single button.
Pictures can be taken simply on the integrated TV.
FLOP: Originally, I had been looking forward via the USB port, I just plug my USB flash drive and so to be archived movies / series just did and then drag it on my big external hard drive. Unfortunately, this is but impossible. Only individual JPEG images can be stored on a USB stick - which also must not have too much capacity. So I must therefore burn everything to DVD and then put it on my hard drive to the computer. If I delete my DVD and the movies would get from the hard drive to the DVD recorder, I have to first either re-burn back to DVD or put them in a different format and then put it on a USB flash drive / SDHC Card , Why it is technically not already covered so that you can sit right on a USB flash drive or SDHC card, is beyond me.
So up to the complicated techniques when dubbing to hard drive I am very satisfied with the device.