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Toshiba DR410 1080p Upconverting Tunerless DVD Recorder |
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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | | Save your favorite home movies to DVD, and get the most out of your DVD collection with 1080p conversion via HDMI to near HD picture quality, for an amazing viewing experience on today's HDTVs with the D-R410. Compact design and numerous recording and playback options make it a great solution for your home theater needs. 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 24bit Audio DAC with 192kHz Processing Plays MP3 and WMA formats (2-Ch) Dolby Digital Recording L-PCM Recording (XP mode only) 3D (Virtual Surround Sound) Features - Instant Skip, Zoom, Editing (Playlist/Rename Title/Chapter Creation), and Commercial Skip Connections - Component Out, HDMI Out with REGZA LINK, Rear S-Video Input/Output, Rear RCA-Video Input/Output, Rear Analog Audio Input/Output, Coax Output, Front DV Input Approximate Unit Dimensions - 16.54 (W) x 2.32 (H) x 9.72 (D) | |
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| Toshiba DR410 tunerless DVD recorder | |
| | I believe that this product is fine, but I had to return it because I do not have the resources (space and equipment) to use this. My equipment is old and I am too old to get new TV and Vcr and DVD players.
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| Just what I was looking for. | |
| | I was looking to archive my old Hi-8 video tapes and this did just that. A very short learning curve. Once on a power failure I was sure I had made a coaster, but no the unit recovered where it was on that DVD disk and went ahead and appended the rest of the video. A good no frill product.
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| | Very happy with my purchase. I bought one for myself and one for my father. This unit is easy to install and easy to operate. great value for the money. I could have bought one with more bells and whistles for a lot more money, but so far this is a great investment. great buy for someone who needs just the basic recorder/player.
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| | I bought this four months ago, expecting something solid but not spectacular. All things considered, I'd have been better off setting my $120 on fire. At least then I wouldn't have to find some place to recycle this piece of trash.
My D-R410 now does a fine job of wasting a few minutes in each futile attempt at reading a variety of pre-recorded DVDs and CDs, as well as blank DVD-Rs. It is equally adept at failing with all of those formats.
While I realize my experience may be an exception, take this for what it's worth. Something that doesn't work out of the box may be a hassle to return, but when the fine Chinese craftsmanship holds up just long enough to pass the 90 day warranty period it's a complete waste.
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| | I wish this was a better unit; but the test of a DVD recorder is image quality, and this one is quite poor.
I recorded a ton of the 2008 Olympics on this Toshiba. I was greatly disappointed looking at the DVDs. I recorded from HD transmissions via my HD tuner output; something I've done before with other recorders, and I had much better results.
This is my 3rd DVD recorder in the last 5 years, and this one is the worst. It is worth a fee to get rid of this. I'm not plugging other brands; just a warning this model is cheap in all ways. Just maybe other Toshiba's aren't so bad; but I won't gamble that again.
The unit's best quality mode, "XP", records only 1 hour per disc. This mode looks pretty good, with only occasional image problems. However, there should not be ANY artifacts on a 1 hour mode disc, based on comparing other older DVD recorder's "best mode".
The 2 hour mode, "SP", is just awful. It looks like other recorders 4 or 6 hour mode. I see big, fat blocks, digital "sparkle" and cracking in the image, and other constantly annoying visual artifacts. Again my older recorders don't have this poor video quality in 2 hour mode.
If you aren't fussy about image quality and have a small TV you may not care, but future large/HD TVs will show these recordings as 3rd rate.
*** I would not recommend this to anyone.
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