I got a copy of this set last week. I'm quite impressed. I was quite surprised that the discs work on my Playstation2! Some criticism: Even on my very small 4:3 TV the picture quality has a slight jagged look of horizontal aliasing, and the frame rate doesn't seem very smooth. But I attribute that to the fact that my PAL TV and Playstation2 are broadcasting the picture in NTSC. There is probably a loss of quality when my PAL TV snaps into its secondary NTSC mode that it wasn't really designed for. But apart from that, I find the picture to be a little better than VHS, which is all I need.

Oh, one more tiny criticism. The most annoying thing about the picture is that bright red things are pixellated. It's weird how compression algorythms always make red stuff very pixellated, like in jpg photos. I hope that gets fixed for TR47's 2.0 versions.

I have one question about the lifespan of burned DVD discs. How long do they last? Because I've heard that CD-Rs only have a lifespan of approximately 3-6 years before the ink starts to run, and I assume DVD-R is the same? Still, I shouldn't worry -- in the years it will take to degrade, I'll finally get a better computer and my own DVD burner, and just re-tranfer them.