Recommendation for professional audio digital portal recorder?

Sony and Panasonic have Good DV recorders but if you go professional you won't get it for Under 600. If you go to yahoo and do a search for digital DV recorder it will come up with the Web site located in New York that carries that type of equipment. You can go to cnet.com and get some answers to. Not knowing what you are doing with it I don't know how to guide you. Do you want DV throughput of the signal to input to a computer to edit burn and finalize a DVD? if s only a professional machine will allow you to. are you making copies of the dvi? many answers but not enough info from you, hope this gives you some help.