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Summary: Toshiba SDV-280 DVD-VCR Review
Review: If I'd read some of the reviews here about Toshiba's poor customer service, I probably would have gotten something else. So far mine has been fine. The remote is awful but luckily I have a learning remote so I just use that. The tape transport is non-responsive. Hit stop and it takes maybe five seconds to stop. Other functions are similar. MP3 playback is only adequate, file names are truncated, but it works. In VHS SLP mode picture quality is a little blurry, but SP is OK. What I really hate is the Timer button that must be pressed to use the timer settings. Most VCRs can just be turned off to activate the timer. DVD picture quality is great.
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Summary: nice product
Review: it has clear sound and great mp3 playbak.
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Summary: A great step backward
Review: It plays tapes and it plays DVDs. That's where the convenience ends:
--terrible manual
--NON universal remote, and good luck finding one that will work this thing.
--If you're old enough to remember how we had to program a timer reconding back in the late '70s, you'll feel nostalgic: Want to record something on channel 342? You'll start at channel 2 and have to hold down the + button on the remote for a couple hours, because it ignores the remote's number pad! I'm going to take this one back and see if the Samsung V2000 is any better.
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Summary: Remote
Review: It seems easy enough to hook up, but the remote is not a universal remote. It would be a better product if the remote was universal. Who in this day and age uses more than 1 remote to control a TV and VCR?
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Summary: Remote control won't control TV <-- Shame
Review: It was a great idea to buy this unit instead of buying VCR and DVD players separately. I checked all the specs, inputs, outputs, etc., and was OK with them. Except one I did not check ... Will the remote from this combo operate a TV? This feature was so given that it did not even occurred to me to check it. For last ten years remote control from every single VCR player I bought, could operate many different brands of TVs. I also tried universal remote controls. They would not work with the combo b/c appearantly Toshiba came up with the new IR control codes that universal controls don't yet know about. Anyway, I am dissapointed in Toshiba. They lost a loyal customer and a big fan. I am returning this unit back. I am not used to use two remote control units to just perform one simple task like watch a DVD.
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Summary: Did not meet my expectations
Review: Package arrived with most of the tape torn off, but inside seemed undamaged. The first thing I noticed was that the user's manual was poorly written and very difficult to understand. Actually it looks like it had been thrown together at the last minute with a copy machine. Functionally, the DVD portion seemed to perform well but for whatever reason I couldn't even get the vcr to playback a known good tape, much less record to a blank tape. After three days of frustration I sent it back via UPS.
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Summary: I couldn't live without this
Review: People tried to talk me out of this. I'll always have lots of VHS tapes I'll want to keep and watch. And now I love DVD. With no space at home, this is a great space saving device that avoids the prospect of having to rehook wires and stack machines. No problems at all with this machine. I can't live without this.
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Summary: Another fine Toshiba product
Review: Player well defined as it regards to simplicity and size. Plays my MP3 files perfectly and overall, just another great product from Toshiba. Lastly... Remote could be a bit better but, I do not purchase a player based on the remote control.
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Summary: to many options
Review: Spent most of the evening reading up on the controls, not simple enough for me! Seems to work fine! Needs a SVideo input for the cable to vcr not just the DVD. I woonder if the GoVideo is any better? Be sure and check it out!
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Summary: Make sure you save your receipt
Review: Thank goodness that the DVD part of this unit quit working just before the 90 day return period at Target expired. The VCR always had poor picture quality and the remote only worked intermitently, so I'm glad to be rid of the thing.
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