Toshiba RDXV48 - 160Gb Hard Drive DVD Recorder & VHS Combi With Freeview |
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Toshiba
EAN: 5017151619918
Label: Toshiba
Manufacturer: Toshiba
Model: RDXV48DT
Publisher: Toshiba
Release Date: 2008-05-15
Studio: Toshiba |
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- DVD/-R/-RW/RAM/+R/+RW & VHS
- Pause Live TV
- Simultaneous Record & Play
- DivX, MP3, JPEG Playback
- 8 Day EPG
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Product Description
This model combines VHS, DVD & a 160GB Hard Disk Drive Recoding & Playback! All this with a Analogue & Digital Tuner Too!
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Goodbye to tapes, 2008-11-03
Over the years I have accumulated seriously large quantities of video tapes from conventional VHS to mini dv's, these are distributed all around the house in cupboards, on shelves ...everywhere!. This piece of kit does exactly what it says on the box. I can transfer/edit to DVD reducing my piles of tapes to a much more manageable number of DVD's. The controls are simple and instructions are well produced and easy to understand. Overall a really first class buy and it arrived bang on time.
Toshiba RDXV48DT Good but read the manual, 2008-10-17
I bought the product last week and looked forward to using it straight away. Being male and a technician I set to and connected everything up but it didn't work like I expected.
Reading the manual (which is not the easiest I have ever read) sorted the problems out and the results are very good. The worst problem was when I came to try to copy and edit some tapes. Unless you are very experienced at video editing you must read and constantly refer to the manual, so have it to hand. At 103 pages it is quite long and the people who wrote it must have assumed that the user is already knowledgeable. That is my only complaint..Could have been written better.
Other than that the picture quality is excellent, and the Tuner produces the best pictures I have seen. Almost glitch free viewing.
Fully recommended.
 overall great value, but..., 2008-11-12
It does all that it promises.
I know nothing of Sky + or whatever, so can't compare its recording function for ease-of-use. I've found it all easy to use so far. It's very quick and simple to set it to record to HDD a program by just choosing it from the daily listings on the Freeview menu.
However, as I think someone has pointed out on a forum here, I'm very surprised there's no way to record (to any format, VHS, HDD or DVD) one channel and watch a different channel at the same time. Yes, while recording TV you can watch an already-recorded medium (on VHS, HDD or DVD), but nothing live. This is especially odd as this machine boasts two TV tuners, one digital, one analogue. So what's the point if you can't use both simultaneously? (Of course while the machine's recording from a TV channel you can primitively switch your TV onto it's own (non-video) channel, but in the case of our old TV that's not good quality... And why should I have to find this poor solution with such a nice new video machine?)
My 2nd slight disappointment is I'm sure not unique to this brand or model, but I guess it's a similar story with any modern DVD recorders. One reason we wanted a VCR player and DVD recorder combi was to transfer a few of our much-loved well-played old video tapes onto DVD. Is this "pirating"?? Perhaps, but so be it; purely for our own personal use, before the (irreplaceable) video tapes finally snap. But even trying to dub from some VHS tapes the machine pipes up "copyright material - though shalt not copy". I dunno, these new-fangled machines are too smart for their own good sometimes...
These gripes aside, this is a super video recorder for a great price, and no qualms at all about choosing it.
So good - I bought another one!, 2008-11-11
Toshiba RDXV48 - 160Gb Hard Drive DVD Recorder & VHS Combi With FreeviewAfter reading the reviews I bought one and its a fantastic piece of kit especially when you consider its below £200.00. Its really easy to use and contrary to another reviewer the remote functions without any issue even when far from the machine. Its very easy to set up - in fact it does everything for you and you can get rid of all the recorders, boxes and cables under your television and just have the one box. I really can't think of any bad points - although the instruction manual takes a bit of reading however its hardly worth bothering as the on screen instructions are so easy to follow and it appears to enhance all my TV programmes in fact its so good i'm going to buy another one!
Worth Every Penny, 2008-10-24
This does exactly what it says on the box! A sophisticated little machine which I bought to supplement our Phillips set-top box and it works perfectly. Our area goes digital next June. Not as daunting to use/understand as some would have you believe and it has many innovative and welcome features that make using it and its operation a pleasure. Only slight niggle is that it is quite noisy (even when switched off and with a timer program waiting to spring into action). Only time it is silent is when completely shut down and not in timer mode. You get used to it though and for this price this is a very minor inconvenience.
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