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Product Description: 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)
Toshiba DR410 1080p Upconverting Tunerless DVD Recorder Features:
- DVD Recorder
- Progressive Scan
- 1080p Upconversion
- ColorStream Pro
- JPEG Photo Viewer
Customer Reviews:
- DOES THE JOB: I used this tunerless DVD recorder to convert my small collection of VHS home movies to DVD+R discs. It took several weeks, and the recorder did the dubbing smoothly and glitch-free. If you are using composite cables from VCR to DVD recorder, try not to use the cables that come in the box. I saw a slight but noticeable improvement in picture quality when I upgraded from the superthin video cable provided with the unit to a General Electric shielded cable I purchased from Target several years ago.
Well though it may record, the D-R410 is not perfect. If a large part of your viewing diet consists of material recorded with video cameras (e.g., TV programs on DVD, music videos, and concerts), playback on this unit will not yield good results in progressive-scan mode at 480p: you'll see distracting video artifacts such as uneven edges on diagonal lines. Moreover, the motor makes a ticking sound that some people might find annoying. Because of these issues, I wouldn't consider this recorder a bang for the buck.
Nevertheless, if you have a collection of videotapes that you'd like to convert to shiny plastic and the tapes aren't copyright-protected, this is an inexpensive, disposable machine that will effectively do the job. - Just fine: This just plugged right in and worked fine without any fuss. I am certainly satisfied and impressed so far.
I'm just curious, what does the 1 star reviewer think the word "tunerless" means? Other, that is, than what it says? I do not think that reviewer's evaluation should compromise the high level of the other ratings because of that reviewer's ignorance or oblivion. - Know what you need: In my ignorance, I did not understand the meaning of "tunerless" . I have cable TV and thought it would be fine but you must have some sort of box. It was easy to set up but took me awhile to understand why it did not work.
- Just dandy!: Gets 'er done!
This has a lot of features that probably I will never use. But I have a whole bunch of VHS tapes that I want to copy to dvd, because they take up so much room.
The remote control that comes with it has a lot of buttons but hey, you will use every one of them!
I think it's a great machine. - Great price, good performance, but some issues: This is an impressive upconverting player and a good recorder with automatic finalizing. But the consumer should be aware that the instruction manual is 100 pages, the remote is poorly laid out and illegible in dim light, and the claim about Regza compatibility may be exaggerated (important to me since I'm using it with a Regza HDTV). The player permits the user to provide the proper settings--480, 720, 1080i,1080p--which, moreover, are illuminated on the face panel. If you have an HDTV capable of 1080p, be sure to set the progressive scan rate in the recorder's menu system. At the same time, be realistic about what to expect. Like numerous other reviewers of "upconverting" DVD players, I notice very little difference in picture quality whether I'm using this Toshiba model with HDMI connection or a 4-year-old "cheap" Sylvania player with component cables (resolution seems equally sharp with both). No doubt the improvement becomes more noticeable as the size of the screen increases (though there's something to be said for counterclaims that the processing of non-HD discs occurs in your HD television set regardless of the converting/up-scaling or non-converting player providing the source signal).
My Sony DVD player remote operates my Sony television set and includes a volume control. The Toshiba remote not only excludes the volume control but something as basic as the off button is a mere stump in a forest of surrounding buttons on this player's user-unfriendly remote. Toshiba TV remotes, on the other hand, are generally of high quality and include DVD player control, but make sure yours is compatible with this player. Finally, the Toshiba, like the Sony, is wired with a copyguard sensor. So far the copyright protection seems to be less sensitive and more forgiving than Sony's (unlike Sony, Toshiba doesn't produce and market its own movies and commercial audio recordings).
This may be the least expensive DVD recorder available, and the workmanship, apart from the shabby labeling of the remote, strikes me as solid (just be aware that the machine is double the thickness and weight of many upconverting player-only machines).
[Update: This Toshiba model gets high marks for playing difficult discs. I have a scuffed copy of "Oklahoma" that repeatedly freezes and gets rejected by a new Sony upscaler as well as a Mac Superdrive. To my surprise, it played without a hitch in this Toshiba.]
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