I am about to buy my first DVD recorder and I would need your inputs to take a final decision. After having reviewed a lot of your posts I am between the Panasonic DMR-E85GCS and the Pioneer DVR-530H, both of them in PAL/NTSC version, multiregion (code free) and dual-voltage (110V -- 220V)
My preferences would be classed in the following order:
1) High quality product --> Low probability to present failures. 2) Recording quality 3) DVD Play back quality 4) Easy to use 5) Possibility to record from Digital camcorder (DV). I heard that recording in Panasonic devices through S-video (Digital -- Analog -- Digital) could sometimes be even better than recording through IEEE (Digital to Digital) 6) Editing features