Toshiba RD970 - 250Gb Hard Drive DVD Recorder with Digital Freeview Tuner

May 26, 2008 | By Doug In DVD Recorders |

Toshiba RD970 - 250Gb Hard Drive DVD Recorder with Digital Freeview Tuner

DVD RAM/-RW/R Recorder

HDMI Output for upscaling DVD images to 720p 1080i and 1080p.

250GB hard drive

Store over 40 hours of Television

Colour: Black

Warranty: TBC

Customer Review: Rubbish!
Yesterday, my husband bought this DVD recorder to go with our new Toshiba TV and, on paper, it seemed a good buy. 250GB of hard drive space, a reasonable price. On taking it home and setting it up, it became obvious that all was not well. It is noisy with a really audible humming noise. Trying to press a channel number on the remote didn’t seem to work, we then realised that it was because it was so slow to respond. The remote control is made of plastic and not even smooth plastic at that! The recorder really feels cheaply made and looks like it has been put together in some third world country. Needless to say, it’s gone back to the shop this morning and we have bought a Panasonic instead! Interestingly, we thought that the Toshiba’s humming noise might be due to the fact that it has a hard drive but our new Panasonic is quiet, so it’s not the reason. We already have another Panasonic DVD Recorder and I am really impressed with Panasonic, it’s really easy to use and, if you also have a Panasonic TV, you can use a feature exclusive to Panasonic: Direct TV Recording: if you are watching TV and you realise you really want to record what you have started watching, you press a button and the DVD recorder records automatically what you are watching.

Customer Review: poor product from a good brand
I bought this as I have a Toshiba HD TV. Very happy with the TV, this product is poor, poor menus, poor setup, poor HDMI connectivity. It actually worked better through SCART than HDMI. Even simply playing a DVD caused flickering on the top and pottom 4 to 5 pixels when using HDMI.

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