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Summary: Pacific Rim [Junk] !!!
Review: About nine years ago I bought a Goldstar VCR,I beleive it was the first VCR to break below the hundred dollar barrier it was so [inexpensive] I was affraid to buy it but I did anyway, After Nine Years of Service it turned out to be the Greatest Buy Ever!! The only thing great about the Toshiba W727 is the high speed rewind and the amazing automatic clock which is always in time even after pluging it in right out of the box {You don't have to program it's truely Amazing !!} But after that it becomes a total apiece of JUNK !!! The picture faded in and out from having a signal to having no signal, the sound was just as bad with a low monitone sound that faded with the picture. I put in many tapes with the same results but it wasn't until I put in a brand new tape of Hannabal that I hadn't even seen yet AND IT ATE IT !!!...
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Summary: disappointed buyer
Review: Great features, great price, looked fabulous but, it didn't work. Not long after it was plugged in my wife began to call it the possessed machine. If it was turned on with a tape in, the machine would cycle through rewinding for 2 seconds then fast forwarding for 2 seconds. It would keep doing this until we turned the VCR off. When you inserted a tape recorded on one of our other VCRs it would adjust the tracking until the picture was a diagonal smear. When it played back a tape it made, it would fast forward for ½ second every 20 seconds. This made it impossible to watch a tape recoded on this VCR. If all this wasn't enough it stopped rewinding, pressing the rewind or fast forward button would cause the tape to fast forward.
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Summary: Good buy
Review: Great machine for that price. The auto clock set is amazing. While using the VCR's tuner, it displays the channel identification (i.e. WNBC etc...)and the name of the TV show. My [expensive] HDTV can't even do that. Playback & sound quality is on par with other Hi-Fi VCRs in the same price range. My only complain is that there is no rewind or forward button on the VCR. You can only use the big round knob to FF & RW.
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Summary: over 100 button
Review: I am quite happy with the Toshiba W727. Yes, the manual is a little hard to understand since it was obviously written by a non-native English speaker. However I had no trouble figuring out all the features. My one negative comment is in the ability to control a cable box. It can, in fact control my cable box, changing the cable box as needed for timer recordings. However, it cannot set a cable box channel higher that 125 and most of my premium channels are above 200.
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Summary: A Happy User
Review: I am quite happy with the Toshiba W727. Yes, the manual is a little hard to understand since it was obviously written by a non-native English speaker. However I had no trouble figuring out all the features. My one negative comment is in the ability to control a cable box. It can, in fact control my cable box, changing the cable box as needed for timer recordings. However, it cannot set a cable box channel higher that 125 and most of my premium channels are above 200.
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Summary: Very Good VCR......Just Not Perfect!!
Review: I am very dedicated to Toshiba. I own a 32" Television, DVD and VCR from Toshiba and I am very happy with all of them. I replaced an older Toshiba VCR with this one and it is a very good VCR. Postives include: VCR Plus(makes programming a snap), Very Quick Rewind, Auto Clock Set and Channel Programming,Front A/V inputs for your camcorder make transferring to VHS tape very easy, Excellent Picture and Sound. The negatives(which are minor) include: Commercial Skip is poor - you have to press the button 1 time for every 30 seconds you want to fast forward, up to 6 times for a 3 minute max. It's easier to just press fast forward and then play when the commercial is over. The remote is full and the buttons are small. The wheel on the remote is for fast forward or rewind in small increments or used for frame by frame in the pause mode. Personally I will never use this funtion. On the VCR itself there are no forward or rewind buttons you have to turn the knob on the right. As for others who say the instructions are hard to understand, I didn't find that at all.
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Summary: Did not find the quality Consumer Reports touts
Review: I bought this product because Consumer Reports recommended it
as the best choice for a stand alone vcr. I have never had a technical product that was as user unfriendly as I found this vcr to be. I could not rewind, fast forward without spending huge amounts of time. I could not count on a show being taped
when I programmed the vcr to tape a show and if the show was taped, I could not play it back. I am totally dissatisfied with this product and am returning it.
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Summary: Great Buy
Review: I liked this VCR from the moment I got it. First, off I don't have cable TV and I use the antenna. When I plugged the wire into the VCR my reception actually got better. Second, I was able to program my VCR in less then a minute. The VCR is very good, makes FF and rewinding quick. There is even a commercial skip option. It was pricey, but I wanted a VCR that I would keep for awhile so it was worth it.
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Summary: good value VCR
Review: I was very pleased with this VCR. Got it over Christmas, setting it up was quick and without any problems. Picture quality is pretty ok, build quality is solid, and though the mechanism is a little noisy this VCR is good value for the price. Would recommend it.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: Like another reviewer here, I bought the Toshiba W727 based on its supposed ability to work with the cable box to change the channel on the box. Even with an old analog box I couldn't get the feature to work. I thought maybe it needed a newer box, so today traded in my analog box for a digital box, and of course it can't switch the channel on that, either. I've spent several frustrating hours over the past few days trying to figure out this problem, only to now find that there's no way this VCR is going to change those cable channels! I've also found the manual difficult to follow, though if you can figure out where to start, once you get to on-screen programming that's pretty clear. I haven't dared try VCR Plus programming; not even sure I can do it with my cable/vcr/tv configuration. The picture quality, however, has been very good. All in all, though, I kind of wish I'd bought the similarly highly rated and slightly less expensive Sony SLV-N55.
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