What is the best DVD recording medium?

I don't see why you can't and in fact Panasonic just came out with a unit that has replay built in.

That's good news, I guess, considering all of the copy-protection going on with music recordings. But I can't believe the networks would allow me to record all of the upcoming 6 Feet Under, Season 3, shows on Tivo or Replay, and then burn my own DVD set of the season, when they carefully time and place their own DVD set on the market for premium dollars ($100 list for the upcoming DVD set of Season 2). Are there any types of program material you CANNOT dub onto a DVR recorder like your Panasonic? For instance, can you dub other DVDs? What are you planning to use your Panasonic for? Also, do the DVD-R blanks hold a lot of hours of content?

I am dubbing other DVD's, old video stuff, ect.

By the way, after doing some more online research, I learned that you should not record DVD's at anything other than the 1 or 2 hr recording time options, otherwise they will not play back on any other machines. Also, there is debate over whether recording on DVD-R is better than on DVD+R in terms of being able to play back on other machines. I did not realize that the -R and the +R were different media! And finally, some programs and movies and esp. PPV may broadcast with a copy protection flag and not allow you to copy to TiVo or DVD recording machines. I don't know if it's worth investing in a recording machine yet. Have you found yours useful for your purposes?

Its ok and I got a good deal. Frankly it is frustrating that there are multiple standards. it makes it difficult to assess to determine the best mode. Thanks alot for the input.