Toshiba D-VR5 DVD Player Recorder with VCR

Product Description MULTI DRIVE DVD RECORDER W/VCR HDMI .com Get maximum enjoyment out of both your VHS and DVD movie libraries with the progressive scan Toshiba D-VR5 DVD player/recorder with integrated full-featured VCR. It records onto DVD-R/RW as well as DVD-RAM discs, and it's also compatible with playing CD-R/RW and VCD discs. You can play discs burned with MP3 and WMA digital audio files, and it's also DivX Home Theater Certified--meaning that it's compatible with video burned to disc using both the DivX video format. You can also view photo slideshows from Kodak Picture CDs with JPEG images. The D-VR5 makes it easy to connect to brilliant imagery with its component and HDMI connections--the latter offering pure digital audio/video performance with no degradation of signal. The VCR features 19-micron heads that match precisely the width of the SP and EP azimuths and read only the signal recorded on each azimuth (not adjoining tracks). Other VCR features include 8-event/1-month programming and auto channel setup. The DVD recorder allows you to record TV programming while your out of the house with a timer function, but it also offers easy one-touch recording. You get six compression modes for DVD recording from 1 hour to 6 hours of video onto one disc. Other recording features include automatic title/chapter/thumbnail creation, time base correction, and auto

Highlights: Single-disc DVD player/recorder with VCR; measures 17 x 3.5 x 12.25 inches (WxHxD) Records onto DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM; plays CD-R/RW, VCD, MP3, WMA, JPEG, and DivX VCR with 8-event/1-year programming, SP/EP recording auto clock Connections: composite (2 in, 1 out), S-Video (2 in, 1 out), component (1 out), RF (1 in, 1 out), HDMI (1 out) DVD offer Dolby Digital/DTS decoding; optical digital audio output

What you can expect: Single-disc DVD player/recorder with VCR; measures 17 x 3.5 x 12.25 inches (WxHxD) Records onto DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM; plays CD-R/RW, VCD, MP3, WMA, JPEG, and DivX VCR with 8-event/1-year programming, SP/EP recording auto clock Connections: composite (2 in, 1 out), S-Video (2 in, 1 out), component (1 out), RF (1 in, 1 out), HDMI (1 out) DVD offer Dolby Digital/DTS decoding; optical digital audio output

Customer feedback: 3.7/5 average rating.

Customers say: Customers find the DVD player performs well, with one mentioning it successfully copied 10 VCR tapes to DVD.

Review snippets: I worry about buying refurbished devices online. When buying vintage devices, you can never be sure of the state, and you have to trust the vendor to address any issues. I purchased a Toshiba VCR/DVD combo- legacy tech with a / I bought this as a scratch and dent. It was fairly inexpensive, but I was worried it wouldn't work with the new digital changes coming up. Some feedback was that the instructions to install were difficult. Mine did not come