I have a philips TV with a philips home theatre.. I can say, it's awesome. Mine doesn't have a recorder, it only plays DVD's, but at 200 euros for a full home theatre it's amazing. It can generate beautiful sound, plays well, also self made dvds, and I also run my computer sound through it (doesn't have a digital input, otherwise I could have 5.1 sound on my pc too).
So I voted philips, just because I'm happy with what it does.
Oh yea, and it has an USB port, don't know if I can play a movie from there though, I should try!