Toshiba D-VR610

usability, price, image quality, design

reliability

77% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

S-Video Input allows higher quality recordings

No pass through technology =when you shut off your recorder, the sound and picture (to your TV) also shut off. Pass through on other models /brands will allow the sound and picture to conitnue. Only disappointment

With the exception of Blu-Ray,played everything I threw at it.

Manual is complex, even for me, reminds me of an old VCR manual from the 1980's.

VERY EASY TO USE> ; THE instruction book sucks

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documentation is very good

Mine arrived not working. Refused to play a DVD, didn't bother testing rest of functions.

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Returned the unit because it would not recognize any of the DVD's that I tried to record to. Tried at least 5 different types. The only error message provided was a red circle with a line through it that appeared on the TV screen after the device gave...

I bought this unit to replace another brand's unit that was constantly recording DVD's from old family VHS tapes and the audio was always out of sync! I couldn't be happier with this unit compared to the other similarly priced brand available.

The only cons I can think of are: The remote has a short range of sight and is a bit boxey, the user manual is a bit complex/arranged poorly, and lastly the VCR when rewinding doesn't slow much, it broke one of my old VHS tapes. An easy fix, but worth...

Does what it says, can record 8,6,4 hrs on a disk 8hrs is a little choppy 6hr is standard def,comes with cables

remote is alittle hard to push makes it seem unresponsive, no tunner

Upconverts to 1080i and 1080p, plays DIVX files, writes DVDs quickly, easy operation.

None so far

It plays burned AVI and DIVX files. That's exactly what I was wanting. I didn't want to convert every single AVI file that I had in my computer just to play MPEG's on the DVD player. This player works great for this. I haven't tested the burn process,...

I haven't found any Cons. None to note.

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