Panasonic DMR-EX88EB-K (400 GB) DVD Recorder

My very first DVD Recorder was an early Philips, but once I discovered the advantages of DVD-RAM I've always bought Panasonic. Every recorder has been better than the one before, and the EX88 is no exception - for example, my last buy was an EX85, but that didn't have series record (which is one of my favourite EX88 features), nor did it offer one-touch recording of a programme that had already started (a real bug-bear). Then there's the massive 400gb hard drive - it's going to be a real challenge to fill that! Fortunately the EX88 allows me to group programmes into folders - and creates them automatically when I use series record. I have discovered one small problem - the 'simple' Copy function sometimes won't allow the high-speed copying of programmes from HDD to DVD-R when it ought to. Fortunately that's easily overcome by using the Advanced Copy (which isn't really 'advanced' - it was the only copy method that my earlier recorders offered). There are two standby modes - one cuts the wake-up time to just a couple of seconds, and whilst it uses a little more power, it's still no more than the EX85 used as standard.