Toshiba DVR610 1080p Upconverting Tunerless VHS DVD Recorder by Toshiba
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Digital camera reviews of Toshiba DVR610 1080p Upconverting Tunerless VHS DVD Recorder
Digital camera Review: Defective -- busted DVD tray
Summary: 1 Stars
Recently purchased this product online after reading positive reviews here. DVD player was broken on arrival -- tray would not open and issued a consistent grinding noise. Similar problem was reported by another poster here, so there may indeed be a defective batch making the rounds. Buyer beware.Digital camera Review: Disappointing birthday gift
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this VHS/DVD recorder for my mother's birthday. When we hooked it up, it played tapes and dvd's fine, but wouldn't tape from vhs to dvd. We called Toshiba's help center and they were very helpful, but nothing they suggested worked. After several attempts with different techs., it was decided that the dubbing unit was frozen. We are returning the product now.Digital camera Review: Does a great job
Summary: 4 Stars
This Toshiba is a very easy to use combo recorder and produces excellent DVD's and VHS cassettes, just like I've come to expect from Toshiba. They always combine quality with simplicity. I bought it for two reasons: I needed to replace our 3-year old Symphonic combo (which did a great job as well but was getting tired after 800+ DVD recordings) and to upconvert properly to my new Samsung LCD. The up-converted videos are fantastic - kudos! The only drawback is it will only record the main speeds. I would have liked to see record modes in the 2.5 and 3 hours formats like my Symphonic. Whenever the content is more than 2 hours I have to use the 4 hour mode, which isn't as sharp a picture as the 2.5 or 3 hour formats of my Funai (Symphonic) SV2000. Otherwise, I love it! A good choice for doing any kind of SD recording.Digital camera Review: Does what it says it will do
Summary: 4 Stars
My daughter made most of our copies so far, but this machine does just what it says it will do - copy uncopyrighted VHS tapes onto DVDs. As other reviewers said, you can't copy tapes that are protected, and you need to follow all the directions and finalize your disks before removing them - but it's a relatively easy process and you can watch TV while things are being duplicated. For my needs, to copy videos of my kids when they were little, it works just fine. I'll go on Amazon or Ebay to buy the few VHS tapes that I bought prerecorded as DVDs if I want to have them; most were to entertain young children and aren't of interest to us anymore now anyway!Digital camera Review: Don't Pay More For Tuner If You Have A Box--Works Great
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my first DVD recorder, except for my computer. Manual is confusing but isnt to hard to play with and figure out. Was recording in minutes.
Purchased it primeraly to transfer my home movies onto DVD and it works GREAT! I had the same problem with the static as an earlier reviewer, copy protected error, but I simply stopped during the static and restarted when the movie picked up again, this was caused by the camera being shut off incorrectly. It made for a lot of chapters sometimes but isnt the DVDs fault.
I started with DVD+RW but couldn't get them to play in my other DVDs, even after finalizing. I switched to DVD-R and they worked great in other DVD players, which allowed me to dub DVD to DVD to make copies for family. This did not however repeat the chapters on the disc and the AUTO chapter I cant figure out either, its turned on but doesn't work. So I ended up with 2 hour DVDs with no chapters to skip to. The only way I figured out to make them were stopping and starting the recording.
Recorded great from my TV (actually my Satellite Box) and from the DVR in the box, so I can record a show to DVR first and if I decide to keep it simply record it to a DVD. Of course it wont record in HD so I have to unplug it to watch HD again, but this is still no the DVDs fault. It does record HD DVR events but not in HD.
The play back quality is good, better from the VCR tapes than original but not as good as on TV since I get HD. Purchased or rented DVDs play excellent tho.
Overall I would recommend the Dvr610 as long as you have cable or satellite, why pay more for a tuner if you already have one.
update: Dec 2009 Still works great, recorded lots of movies and shows but most purchased vhs movies wont record.