- 08
- May
Tag : 1080p upconverting, recorder, toshiba dr410, tunerless dvd
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 Company : Toshiba List Price : $129.99 Amazon Price : Too low to display Used Price : Average customer review :  |
Features
- DVD Recorder
- Progressive Scan
- 1080p Upconversion
- ColorStream Pro
- JPEG Photo Viewer
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)
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 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. The player permits the user to provide the proper settings–480, 720, 1080i,1080p–which, moreover, are illuminated on the face panel. However, like numerous other reviewers of “upconverting” DVD players, I notice no 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 fine with both). Perhaps it requires a screen of more than 50″ to notice the advertised improvement (though I’m beginning to take seriously the counterclaims that the processing of non-HD discs occurs in your HD television set regardless of the converting 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 player control, but make sure yours is compatible with the DVD 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 (take a look at some of the reviews of Sony DVD recorders).
This may be the least expensive DVD recorder available, but the workmanship of this product (especially the remote, with its small buttons and faded labels), produced in China on consignment by Toshiba, doesn’t inspire the same confidence in the brand name as the Toshiba HD television sets.
[Update: The Toshiba player gets high marks for playing difficult discs. I have a scuffed copy of “Oklahoma” that repeatedly freezes and gets rejected by a new Sony player and older Sylvania player as well as Mac Superdrive. It sticks momentarily using the Toshiba but soon spins merrily on its way. If the player continues to be non-responsive to my Regza TV remote, however, I plan to return it, possibly exchanging it for another just like it (though the price has gone up). Toshiba’s response was unhelpful, informing me that Regza Link does not mean the player and TV share processors and tuners. I knew that. I was merely asking how to enable the Regza switch to control Toshiba player functions like on-off, start-stop.]
