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Toshiba DVR610 1080p Upconverting Tunerless VHS DVD Recorder |
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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | | Enjoy the convenience of VCR and DVD playback options without the need for two units. The D-VR610 not only saves space, but also offers 1080p upconversion of DVD content via HDMI to near HD picture quality, and makes copying your videotapes to DVD a snap with bi-directional dubbing! Record your favorite home movies directly to DVD with the D-VR610. An HDMI output enables the D-R560 to play DVDs to your widescreen HDTV delivering sharp imagery on screens optimized for 1080 resolutions, in an upconversion mode. Video Upconversion to 720p/1080i/1080p 10bit Video DAC with 54MHz Processing DivX Home Theater Certified Digital Photo Viewer (JPEG) One Touch Recording makes recording your favorite show simple. Just connect your DVD recorder to your cable or satellite box and you are set to record with the push of one button Auto Finalize with Undo simplifies the recording process by automatically finalizing your recording for playback on standard DVD players Bi-directional dubbing lets you copy from tape to disc, or vice versa, with the push of one button 24bit Audio DAC with 192kHz Processing Plays MP3 and WMA formats (2-Ch) Dolby Digital Recording Features - Instant Skip, Zoom, and Editing (Playlist/Rename Title/Chapter Creation) Connections - Component Out, HDMI Out, Front DV Input, Front A/V Input (including S-Video), Rear S-Video Input/Output, Rear RCA-Video Input/Output, Rear Analog Audio Input/Output, Coax Output Approximate Unit Dimensions - 17.13 (W) x 3.92 (H) x 10.31 (D) | |
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| | After a month of frustration with a similarly priced unit that was a major name brand, we returned that unit and bought this Toshiba model instead. The other unit was constantly making DVD's from old home VHS movies and the audio would be out of sync. We tried seven different movies and five different DVD recordable disc types. No matter what, when the DVDs came out, the people's mouths would move and the audio would come across two to three seconds later!
As stated, this unit is a huge improvement over the other previous unit we owned/returned. If you're looking to copy VHS to DVD on a budget, this is the model for you. The unit features a full set of outputs (HDMI/Component/S-Video/RCA) and has 1080p upconversion when watching DVDs.
The only downsides to this unit are the somewhat funky remote and the overall layout/complexity to the user manual, I feel that the manual could have been much easier to understand with a bit better organization and not so much crammed on every page.
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| End your searching now.... | |
| | Like many others, I was searching for a simple way to convert VHS tapes of family home movies to DVD, considering that VCRs are almost completely unavailable, and soon these family tapes would be unplayable forever. I first purchase the Samsung model, and discovered that much to my dismay, the audio and video did not synchronise! Turns out that it was a Samsung problem, and they could do nothing about it. Returned it.
Then I thought I'd try this Toshiba model. Well, first off, THERE ARE NO AUDIO/VIDEO SYNCHRONIZATION PROBLEMS WITH THIS MODEL!!!! If you follow the steps listed in the manual (and it's not hard to understand, don't know what everyone's complaining about), and if you record in "SP" mode for two hours, the end result will look and sound exactly like the source VHS.Terrific, Toshiba strikes again!
In regards to editing menus, if you've owned a Magnavox dvd recorder before this one, it will be like deja vu. They use the exact same program!
Really, this is the vhs/dvd recorder to buy. It will not disappoint you!
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| Don't Pay More For Tuner If You Have A Box--Works Great | |
| | This is my first DVD recorder, except for my computer. Manual is confusing but isnt to hard to play with and figure out. Was recording in minutes.
Purchased it primeraly to transfer my home movies onto DVD and it works GREAT! I had the same problem with the static as an earlier reviewer, copy protected error, but I simply stopped during the static and restarted when the movie picked up again, this was caused by the camera being shut off incorrectly. It made for a lot of chapters sometimes but isnt the DVDs fault.
I started with DVD+RW but couldn't get them to play in my other DVDs, even after finalizing. I switched to DVD-R and they worked great in other DVD players, which allowed me to dub DVD to DVD to make copies for family. This did not however repeat the chapters on the disc and the AUTO chapter I cant figure out either, its turned on but doesn't work. So I ended up with 2 hour DVDs with no chapters to skip to. The only way I figured out to make them were stopping and starting the recording.
Recorded great from my TV (actually my Satellite Box) and from the DVR in the box, so I can record a show to DVR first and if I decide to keep it simply record it to a DVD. Of course it wont record in HD so I have to unplug it to watch HD again, but this is still no the DVDs fault. It does record HD DVR events but not in HD.
The play back quality is good, better from the VCR tapes than original but not as good as on TV since I get HD. Purchased or rented DVDs play excellent tho.
Overall I would recommend the Dvr610 as long as you have cable or satellite, why pay more for a tuner if you already have one?
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| | I purchased this three weeks ago and STILL can't get it to work properly. Don't bother calling Toshiba. You don't get help, just attitude.
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| | I had a pile of VHS tapes that I was able to throw away after copying them with this brilliant product. Although I no longer keep VHS copies of anything, the player still works fabulously to simply play DVDs. I was a genius to have purchased this product.
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