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Toshiba DR17DT DVD Recorder with Digital Tuner-1080p upscaling |  | Brand: Toshiba
Category: CE
Buy Used: £65.00
as of 30/7/2010 08:48 PDT details
Seller: Petebutt
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 33143
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8
Dimensions (in): 20.2 x 15 x 5.7
MPN: DR17DT
Model: DR17DT
EAN: 5017151616108
Release Date: March 8, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | DVD recorder | | • | 1080i Up Scaling Via Hdmi | | • | Freeview and Analogue | | • | Audio Dolby Digital / Dts Surround | | • | CDR/RW playback |
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Product Description
- Recordable formats: DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW.
- Up to 10 hours recording time on Dual layer disc. DVD upscaling to 1080p.
- Digital coaxial output. Component video output.
- HDMI input.
- Integrated digital tuner
- Playable formats: DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, DVD-RAM, CD, CD-R/-RW, VCD, SVCD, DivX
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| Customer Reviews:
 Old Technology February 1, 2010
Ilhan Erden (Staines, Middlesex, United Kingdom)
It's been a while since I bought this product, however after 1 day of fiddling around with it and using it for a couple of days, it turned out to be the worst piece of equipment I have ever bought. I put it up on eBay and sold it for less than I had paid for. I paid a little more and got a Digihome 250GB Freeview Receiver with dual tuner which is brilliant. Don't buy this.
 Great product. April 22, 2009
Mr. S. Morris (East Anglia UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Here we go whingeing whining people again! How can people moan so much? Anyway I bought one of the £39.99 refurb units. it's brilliant! An absolute bargain. Yes it does appear to take a while to load a DVD but is life so short we can't be bothered to wait 15 seconds or so! What's wrong with people! This is a good machine which does what it says it will. For £39.99 you just can't go wrong.
Toshiba DVD VIDEO RECORDER February 13, 2009
Ricardo (shropshire)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We have had one of these machines now for 1 year,it is easy to use,and we have found the recordings have very good picture quality,we are not whiss kids,but found the machine easy to use, and set up.
 Absolute Tosh May 31, 2008
doug
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
There are 3 things wrong with this product:
1. It is extremely user unfriendly (very complicated menus and bewildering options, including cryptic symbols that appear on the "Display" menu - great if you wear an anorak indoors and prefer browsing through the DVD manual to actually watching anything you've recorded).
2. The Freeview box works fine but when you record things it invariably records them in aspect ratio 4:3 and it is impossible to then play them back in 16:9 (I have a Sony HD ready widescreen tv). I've experimented with the aspect ratio settings (trying "Auto" and "16:9" to no effect).
3. Perhaps the worst thing is the picture quality. It's okay on SP - 2 hours per disc but there is no LP or, to be exact, what Toshiba call "LP" is really what other manufacturers call "EP" and gives you 4 hours per disc. This is annoying as many films are around two and a half hours long and LP is a good option to record them with. However, Toshiba's "LP" (really EP) quality is terrible (worse than my old £75 LiteOn DVD recorder) and it really isn't worth recording anything at this setting. For some bonkers reason Toshiba have included there own "EP" (6 hours per disc) and "SLP" (8 hours per disc) but you'd have to be insane, blind or just a fan of low quality, blurry, pixelated crud (usually in 4:3 - ho, ho) to want to cram that much onto a disc.
So, don't waste your money. Buy something with a real LP option that also gets the aspect ratio right. This is the worst piece of technology I've ever bought!
not that impressed (yet) September 2, 2007
Mr. S. Rodgers (UK)
49 out of 55 found this review helpful
I've only had this player 2 days but I must say my first impressions are not that great. On paper this machine seems to do everything, but I took a risk buying it as I couldn't find any reviews for it online. My first comment is that it's so s......l......o.......w. Put in a DVD movie and it takes an age for the menu to appear. Once playing a movie things are not much better. The 1080p upscaling (via HDMI) seems to work - however Iam not sure it's any better than the xbox360 over VGA.
The user interface looks dated and again is very slow to nativate around. I've yet to attempt any recording, but I hope it will score better in that area! So far only 3 stars (for HDMI output and styling).
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