DVD/HDD Recorder - Panasonic DMR-EH55

[nashty1]

I was considering the purchase of an Oppo BD-83 recently so I went to check out how much I could sell my "old" Panasonic DVD recorder for on E-bay. I was shocked when I found out that the last completed auctions for this item were just short of $400! Can anyone explain why this player is still drawing such a high resale price? Don't get me wroing, I am not complaining. ;D I just am floored. That is almost as much as I paid for it 4 years ago. Granted it has hard disk recording capability, but I do not use this feature anymore since it only has an analog tuner. Anyone have insight into what these are being used for now that keeps the price so high?

[roadrunner]

My best guess is because of the relative scarcity of DVD recorders with hard drives; and, the handful of available units in the US are priced very high -- the "old demand curve" from Economics 101. ;D

[nashty1]

You have to be right, but it's the demand part I can't figure out. Can't this be done just as easily or easier with a computer these days? Without a digital tuner this is a glorified VHS recorder. All of the functionality that was there when with analog OTA stuff is rendered obsolete. It will record to HDD but you have to feed it an externally decoded digital signal and then manually setup the record features. Thanks for the input. I was just wondering if there was some other angle that I hadn't considered.