Toshiba DVR610 1080p Upconverting Tunerless VHS DVD Recorder

Toshiba DVR610 1080p Upconverting Tunerless VHS DVD Recorder | Great Unit

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	Toshiba DVR610 1080p Upconverting Tunerless VHS DVD Recorder Toshiba Toshiba average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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!

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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Great Unit

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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Great Product

I am very happy with my Toshiba unit so far. I have not been able to find the time to play with all of it's features yet, but I am extremely happy with it's performance so far on the tasks I have tried. And as for the instruction manual... It's a novel I haven't finished yet either!!! LOL!

BUY THIS ONLY IF YOU HAVE A CABLE/SATELLITE BOX

Theres nothing wrong with the functionality of this DVD/VHS recorder, it just lacks the things that most people would want. The interface is somewhat annoying and there is a significant load time after every DVD is inserted into the unit (there is literally a progress bar that takes about 30 seconds). Aside frmo that, if you dont have a cable box or satellite box, you cannot use this to record anything on TV. It says that you can buy an external TV Tuner to connect up and use with it if you don't already have a box, but I have gone to radioshack, wal mart, best buy, and searched online for an external TV Tuner that would work with this and have not found one yet. Essentially, the only way I can use this is to go pay the cable company $5 a month to rent a cable box that will connect up to the back of this bad boy so that I can record TV shows. Otherwise, it works fine as a regular VHS or DVD player, but if you ever wanted to record anything on TV you must have an external TV tuner or a cable/satellite box. It does not work with one of the new digital to analog converter boxes either, I have connected everything and I just can't get a signal strong enough from the cable company to get through to the DVD recorder, meaning I have to get their cable box. I haven't bothered trying out the upconverstion on it because I already have an HD-DVD player hooked up to my good TV, but I assume it works fine since most other reviews say that it does. In short, if you don't have a cable or satellite box, just buy a dvd/vhs combo recorder that has a built in tuner, that way you dont have to rent a tuner (cable box) and pay money every month. They cost more if they have a tuner built in, but if you're like me and have to pay $5 a month, after a year of owning this, it would have been cheaper to just pay $60-$70 more for one with a built in tuner.

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