As I mentioned a couple posts back I went out to my local Wallyworld and picked up the Polaroid DRM-2001G DVD Recorder. I paid $219.

I haven’t fully tested it but so far I’m pretty impressed especially for the price. It has an 80G hard drive. It does a very nice job of recording and I do find the hard drive to be handy. The remote is a little confusing but once you get the hang of it it’s not too bad.

I’ve transfered some Home Video VHS tapes from a VCR through the composite inputs.

How were the results ?

My family commented that the recordings looked better than the original VHS tapes. As a matter of fact the final DVD’s look better than DVD’s I’ve made when going from a VCR, through a DV camera with pass-through to convert to DV-AVI.

In the HQ (1 hour mode) the recorder encodes at 9Mbs. The YesDVD feature is actually pretty cool. I think some people will find it quite useful.

I have been using the unit a lot in the past few weeks and I will post a complete review soon.