Toshiba DR420 DVD Recorder, Black | 
 enlarge | Brand: Toshiba
Category: CE
List Price: $103.99
Buy Refurbished: $79.99
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New (3) Used (9) Refurbished (2) from $79.99
Rating:  104 reviews
Sales Rank: 353
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.3
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 16.6 x 2.3
Front DV Input
Kodak Picture CD
MPN: DR420
Model: DR420
UPC: 022265002216
EAN: 0022265002216
ASIN: B001T6O0ZK
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Records -R/-RW, +R/+RW Formats | | • | Playback:MP3, VCD, JPEG, Kodak Pic | | • | 1080P Upconversion and DV Input | | • | Auto-Finalization | | • | HDMI connection |
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Product Description
The DR420 is an excellent solution for archiving your favorite home movies to DVD. That's not all; the DR420 also enhances your DVD collection with 1080p upconversion to near HD picture quality via HDMITM.
Video upconversion up to 1080p resolution via HDMITM takes your current DVDs to a new level, for an amazing viewing experience on today's HDTVs.
One Touch Recording makes recording your favorite show simple. Just connect the DR420 to your cable or satellite box and you are set to record with the push of one button!
Multi-format recording and playback provides the utmost in recording media convenience with compatibility with the most popular formats (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW).
Auto Finalize with Undo simplifies the recording process by automatically fi nalizing your recording for playback on standard DVD players.
REGZA-LINK® (HDMITM-CEC) makes controlling multiple components easy. Just connect your recorder to other compatible devices using an HDMITM cable, and then control them using one remote, no additional programming or setup required!
Front DV Input makes it easy to save your precious memories to DVD.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 104
 Perfect replacement for a VCR (plus good upconverting DVD player) April 17, 2009
DEREK MCCARTHY (Acton, MA)
204 out of 206 found this review helpful
This unit is really great! We recently got a 40" HD TV and needed a replacement for the VCR -- we wanted to record shows (and On-Demand movies) at a good enough quality for HD viewing.
One option was DVR from Comcast for $10/month (which might or might not allow recording of On-Demand movies and transfer to computer for disc-burning). Another option was using a computer with a video acquisition device and record to hard drive. The third option was this unit for $110, delivered, from Amazon -- hands down the most practical choice.
Though this unit doesn't record in true HD resolution, the quality is about the same (in 2 hour mode, 16x9) as regular 16x9 enhanced DVDs. At first I was worried the recorded discs might not play on other DVD players; but they did, no problem at all on any of our equipment (that is, after the recording is finalized). The recording time for a DVD-R disc (on high quality mode) was 2 hours and 8 minutes. (On lower quality modes, it's 4+ hours and 8+ hours.)
Navigating the menu system is easy enough, and each recorded disk is given a simple menu with the various recordings available to choose from (which by default have the date & time of recording as the title, but can be renamed).
Upconversion of commercial DVDs is quite good (enough so that we're not that motivated to get a Blu-Ray player yet ;-).
Our only complaints (which are very minor) are that the tray-eject is a little slow & noisy and that there isn't component video inputs (just composite video & S-Video inputs). But it was easy enough to hook up to our cable box (or TV) to record from their outputs.
This will be a great unit to have until Blu-Ray recorders become less expensive.
Works perfectly June 12, 2009
Ulf Axmacher (Missing Finger, VT)
97 out of 99 found this review helpful
I bought this unit to transfer videotapes to DVD, and to save TV shows on DVD from my cable DVR. For that purpose, it works perfectly. The setup is simple, and the controls are very easy to use. The manual is very clear, with nice big pictures to show you where the relevant buttons are. I had it set up and dubbing within 15 minutes.
I only use DVD-R format discs (due to their universal compatibility), so I cannot comment on how the recorder works with other formats. But when I played back my recorded DVD-R on other machines, I had no compatibility issues, they played perfectly, and the picture was sharp and clear.
DVD-R discs have to be "finalized" before they can be played in other machines. This unit finalized a 3/4 full DVD in just a couple minutes- much faster than other DVD recorders I have used in the past.
The recorder only offers Composite and S-video inputs. It would have been nice to have Component or HDMI inputs as well for higher quality. However, I used the S-Video input and the playback quality was still excellent.
The recorder does offer Composite, S-Video, Component, and HDMI outputs, which gives you lots of options for connecting to your display. I went with the HDMI connection because it is simple (just 1 cable for both audio and video) and provides the highest quality.
As a bonus, this unit is also a very good upscaling DVD player. With the HDMI connection to my display, I was very impressed with the quality of the 1080p upscaled image.
For the very reasonable price ([...]), this is a nice piece of equipment which performs as advertised.
Great price and performance April 26, 2009
Michael A. Mccormick (Daly City,Calif.)
54 out of 56 found this review helpful
I bought this unit after reveiwing other brands on the Amazon web pages. I wanted to copy from Tivi to DVD.Nice owners guide and physical looks. The tray opens just like other players with a little noise, no big deal! It does take awhile to finallize your dvd copys but, no big deal. Component out only,no cable terninals,no tuner. the recording light on the front is real tiny.On screen menu is good. For my use this recorder is perfect.
Buy this if you are looking to replace a VCR... October 14, 2009
deepwoods (PA)
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
If you are an old fart like me who was still clinging to the VCR to record TV shows during the week so you can watch them later, and you want to want to move into the 21st century, the dr420 is perfect (assuming you have a tuner, like a DirecTV box).
This machine works perfectly, and the DVD upconversion is very good. I liked it so much I bought two more and replaced all of the VCRs in my home. I am using DVD-RW to record daily shows. After I watch them each day I format the disk. 1000 formats per disk! I have been using the dr420 like this for a couple of weeks only, but so far I could not be happier.
One "warning" though. Unlike what your old VCR might do, the dr420 will not pass through the audio/video when turned off. This was not a problem for me, as my DirecTV box has multiple outputs. So in one of my set-ups, the TV has a direct connection to my DirecTV box and my dr420 has another, separate, connection to my DirecTV box. I use S-video from DirecTV to the dr420 and then again to the TV (two channel audio as well). Then I have a direct coax connection from the DirecTV box to my TV, which is used when the dr420 is powered off.
UPDATE** After 3+ months all of the dr420 machines are working as good as from day one. I am very satisfied with this product.
Go ahead and get it July 2, 2009
K. Bush (Morristown, TN USA)
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
I bought this DVD recorder to convert my old VHS home movies into DVD's. I had it up and running in no time. It is extremely easy to use. I had shopped around before buying because I wanted something easy and something that would work well. If you are thinking about getting a DVD recorder, but are unsure... rest assured, this is a great recorder. I'm extremely happy with it.
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