DVD recorders

With twin Freeview HD tuners, a 250GB hard drive and DVD recording, this is a flexible device

After a DVD recorder, VHS recorder and Freeview PVR all rolled into one? Here's your answer – and it's a decent performs to boot

No-frills DVD/HDD recorder but it does a fine job of the basics

If you're after this sort of one-box solution, the Panasonic is a good option, but for the cash we'd like to see better functionality

It isn't a bad recorder, but there's no one area of performance where it excels above average

With a massive 400GB hard drive, the Panasonic DMR-EX88 can record a whopping 712 hours – that's nearly 30 days – of telly!

This DVD recorder ticks all our boxes for spec and performance – and it has a gargantuan 250GB hard disk

This promising Pioneer is let down by lacklustre video and audio performance

This does everything we hope for from a DVD/HDD recorder and in fine style – no more than we've come to expect from Sony

This is a good recorder but there's some great competition about, meaning this Toshiba doesn't do enough to be considered an all-star all-rounder