Today I bought the new Panny DVDR E80 Gig- Tell me..  

$699 at CC( I will obviously return it if prices fall in 30 days which I feel they may- I did not buy for $550 on the net because I wanted the $49 3 year warranty and support that a local store gives me).What specifically would you like me to try? It is set up and ready. I have numerous S-VHS videos that are originally recorded 4 hours that I want to burn to HDD or DVD. In fact I am dubbing right now a 3.5 hour FB game (S-vhs). I set the black level input to darker rather than lighter(only two choices). I frankly did not know which is better but on this vid there is a lot of whitewash on the S-VHS tape being input. They do have two other OUTPUTS on the E80 for S-VHS/composite and Component depending on your wires going out from the E80. BTW this is a very complicated DVDR if you want to use the advanced stuff. I am no genius but fairly up on this stuff. A lot of regular Joes who do not dwell on this will never figure this hard drive sh.. to DVD editing etc out. This is not like a freaking VCR. More like a computer which a lot of people still have not figured out. Plus and this is Big- if you have High definition and two complicated 5.1 systems as I do, be ready for some hours baby. I have spent them. BTW I did get great surround optical (not 5.1 but the same sound WAS coming out of all 5 speakers)tonight from the DMR-E80hs out of my new panny receiver on previously burned dvd -r's.

Actually when I said two other OUTPUTS, I should have said menu output choices within the black level menu(not on the back of the unit). It allows you to set the level to darker or lighter depending if your hooked up with component output or S-VHS/composite output on the back of the unit.