Panasonic DMR-EA18K DVD Recorder

May 22, 2008 - Purchased this Panasonic DMR-EA18K DVD unit online after an extensive amount of research to find a unit that just records and plays DVD's (also plays CD's). Have already tackled the conversion of VHS tapes to DVD's and wore out a VHS/DVD Sylvania player/recorder after 4 years. Now we will settle back and just enjoy this Panasonic at an excellent price and excellent quality. The manual is very involved and not being a technical person (female), decided to let my "instincts" take over. Unplugged the other unit and plugged the Panasonic in the same way and we have a Pioneer TV so the ability for two Panasonics to communicate, did not happen however, did not find that to be any kind of a problem. Had to purchase an HDMI splitter as the Pioneer only had one HDMI connection and needed two since we have Directv Satellite. After connecting and getting everything working, did a lot of "playing" with the remote to find out what I needed to just do what I wanted to do. There are plenty of things to play around with but bells and whistles are not my thing. I want to settle on the "bottom line" and only do what I want to do in the easiest manner, less time and effort and come up with a product that is satisfying my needs - the Panasonic DMR-EA18K DVD Recorder does exactly that.