Toshiba D-VR3 DVD Recorder
Product Description
With an array of recording and playback options, the DVR3 is sure to satisfy even the most die-hard recording enthusiasts. It records to DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD-RW discs in addition to VHS tapes. You can even take advantage of bi-directional dubbing for easy transfer from VHS to DVD, and vica versa.
Toshiba D-VR3 DVD Recorder
Test report
DOA, March 12, 2005 Reviewer: Alanwagen "alanwagen" (Fort Worth, TX USA) - Thank you Amazon for your easy return.
Got it out of the box and tried to format the DVD Ram disk it
came with. At 85% it had a data error. After that it would not read, recognize or write DVDs. Powered off to reset but still broke. Of course I was very disapointed.
I going to return and try another and also get a service policy.
After reading many reviews of all DVD recorders, I have decided that they all seem problematic and fragile.
Suberb!, March 5, 2005
A Kid's Review
I had been wanting a DVD recorder for a long time, ever since I heard them on the Discovery Channel and I am so glad that that I saved up and bought this Toshiba DVD recorder, I like the DVD recorder and I like that it also has a VCR. I am sorry but I am very heavily disagreeing with the previous review that says this DVD recorder is hard too use, When I was shopping for a DVD recorder and I said I wanted one that was easy to use the sales guy told me that out of all the brands they were selling this was the easiest to use, the most user friendly and after having used this and taped over 100 movies that I taped off of cable movie channels I agree with him 100 percent This is so easy to use and the remote and its buttons is large enough for me and the movies I've taped on DVD's look great! You have to remember that you aren't going to get the picture quality that you would get with professionaly made DVD's that you buy with programs already on it and the quality is only going to be as good as your TV, cable or satelite reception. I have noticed that some blank DVD's work better than others, I prefer Memorex the picture always looks great while other brands I tried were bad. One guy said that his unit froze and I admit that happened to me once but it was because I had hit the wrong button but in my experience if you hit the DVD or vcr function keys then it starts working right and you don't need to reset the clock or channel memory. Also you must realize that sometimes you may put in a blank DVD that turns out to be a defective dud and a lot of times when the blank DVD fails people seem to automatically assume it was the recorder unit itself that failed and they don't stop to think that perhaps it was the blank DVD that failed and then they return the unit and bad mouth it without realizing that it was the DVD that was defective or that they themselves just did something wrong! I personally find this Toshiba DVD recorder with the VCR to be of the higest quality and I have no qualms about recommending it and if I could I would buy more of these for other rooms! Of course with any item like this it is possible to get a unit that is defective but my DVD recorder unit is not defective at all.
Toshiba D-VR3 DVD Recorder/VCR Combo, March 1, 2005 Reviewer: P. Sorensen "Music Lover" (Tallahassee, FL USA) -
I chose this product because I have a recently-purchased large screen Toshiba TV and an older Toshiba VCR. Those products have been excellent in all respects. This product is very difficult to use, has a poorly-written and unhelpful user's guide, and has poor technical quality in several respects. The DVD recorder produces a mediocre picture. The VCR is very noisy. The remote control is the worst of any product I've owned. The buttons are tiny and the text is very hard to read. The electronic signal is poorly engineered and in general just refuses to work. There are many other problems. I would be glad to be rid of this machine so I could buy a better engineered DVD/VCR player (without the DVD recorder).
A Good DVD Recorder with One Little Flaw!, November 15, 2004 Reviewer: S.H. "Summer-Rainbow" (From an Island) - I got this Toshiba DVD recorder for a birthday present and it is a DVD player/recorder/VCR combo and I like that I can take our old homemade family video tapes and copy them to DVD and I have also copied some old made for television movies and Christmas specials from video to DVD and I have gotten quality recordings each time I have made a copy to DVD disc and I'm happy about that but for some reason you can only pause a recording if you are recording a TV show or movie directly from the channel to DVD but when you are making a Dubbing copy of a video to DVD or DVD to video you can't edit it or pause the recording so I have to take a point off for that but all in all I'm pretty satisfied. This Toshiba model uses 3 types of discs, DVD-Ram which is nice and lets you rerecord over it but unfortunately this doesn't work on alot of DVD players and I have found that they will not play on or Samsung and Go.Video DVD players and will only play on this Toshiba DVD Recorder. The second type of discs you can record with on this recorder is DVD-R and I have found that these will play on the Samsung and Go Video DVD players and I will for now on be using DVD-R Discs instead. I know that DVD-R discs can't be recorded on again once the discs have been finalized but most of the things I record are things I want to keep anyway so I have no problems with this type of discs because I can play them on our other DVD players. The third type of disc that can be used is DVD-RW which I haven't tried yet but If I saw some in a store I would buy them to try out. I almost forgot to mention that this DVD recorder VCR combo is very user friendly, it's so easy to use and you don't have to be an electronics expert to understand how to operate it and the remote is very good too and it's not to big or too small and the number and function buttons are big and easy to see! Another thing that is nice about this DVD Recorder/VCR is that it doesn't need a computer to work, all you have to do is hook it up to your TV just like you were setting up a regular VCR! Just make sure you buy discs that are compatible with it. Make sure you can use the dics with a DVD recorder that isn't a computer DVD burner and also some stores will not take back a package of discs that has been opened.
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Toshiba D-VR3 DVD Recorder
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