Pls choose one have good maintenance service. Also, check whether the device is hot especially if with harddisk and bring with your own RW disc to test the recording function with different speeds, i.e. HQ, SP.....
My experience on AxL is very bad, I bought one last yr and always don't know when it could record sucessfully or not; besides, the warranty only lasted for 6 months. My friends who had bought this brand also had very bad comments.