True, true, and true. My dad actually asked me about the unit recently. He's interested in it, but wishes it was a Sat unit as well.

My main gripe after the commercials is that Panasonic insists on backing that damn DVDRAM. I mean seriously, when you have a hard drive that big, what use is a recorded copy that can only play on that unit? That doesn't make sense to me.

Does the unit also use DVD-RW? Last time I checked, it wasn't as supported as DVD+RW is for models that use that format.