Toshiba D-VR 16

Advantages: Very versatile, easy to use, space saving
Disadvantages: not the best playback quality I've seen

...for the addition of titles. The process seemed to be quite labour intensive and rather slow - there must be an easier way. I found various companies on the Internet who offered a service to transfer recordings form Video Tape to DVD but that meant paying out for each tape to be transferred and the cost, for our collection of more than 30 video tapes to be transferred to DVD and for multiple copies to be made for each of our children, was quite prohibitive. The solution appeared after more research. A combined DVD writer and VCR. More research showed that several manufacturers produced these so we needed only to comapre specifications and costs to select the unit which would best serve our requirements. We finally settled on this Toshiba model and after some comparison of suppliers we placed an order with LX Direct at a total cost of just... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Easy set up and good user guide
Disadvantages: No scart lead supplied

...recently bought this DVD/VCR recorder combi with Freeview by Toshiba as I have been wanting a DVD recorder for some time now, but also I have a number of videos still and not quite ready to get rid of them yet! I spent a bit of time looking around before deciding on this one, and what made me decide to buy it was the fact that people were saying it was easy to set up. I am not the most technical minded person, so the easier the better as far as I am concerned! I did think that being a DVD/VHS combi it would be quite complicated to operate and set up, but I have been pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to use. The thing I like most about this is I have a lot of videotape of my daughters when they were younger, which I had transferred from my Sony Handycam onto VHS, and would dearly like to have these on DVD now as videos are fast... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Very neat compact unit
Disadvantages: not easy to set up

...Having waited almost 2 months for this machine, I could not wait to unpack it and get going. However, I found the instructions very difficult to follow because I have a cable box. I kept losing my cable picture so it was very much trial and error before I got it right. Having succeeded in getting the machine connected, I find it is very easy to use. The remote also works with my TV so that is an advantage! Recording on to DVD is very simple and the quality is excellent. Recording on to VCR is even easier and, again, the quality is excellent. It is also very easy to transfer a VCR on to a DVD and vice versa. I haven't tried transferring my camcorder fims on to VCR or DVD but it looks very simple so I don't foresee any problems. The Toshiba DVR3 can record on most types of DVD including -R, -RW and RAM and can read even... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful