Home > Consumer Reviews > Toshiba RDXV48 - 160Gb Hard Drive DVD Recorder & VHS Combi With Freeview

I purchased this machine to copy my old VHS videos onto the HDD then after editing onto DVD's. Some reviews I've seen have indicated that editing is tricky - I have found this not to be so. However the recorded programme index is poor - on an old Toshiba HDD recorder I have you could change the thumbnail to show what the programme is or change the title. On this machine you cannot change the thumbnail and the title editing is very poor. General playback and timer recording is straight forward. Overall a good machine but some things could be better.

The toshiba is the first I have bought from toshiba and one of only two I found with DVD/VHS/HDD/HDMI/ Digital/Analogue tuners
The handbook is very extensive albeit with one or two errors, e.g. to dub DVD to HDD it does not say start the dvd and press the dubbing button on the remote, which automatically starts the dub to HDD, if you follow the text the insert DVD is there in the text but not the start DVD etc so it is a little confusing.
The HDMI to tv I use and the result is superb, it of course cannot makeup for the very variable broadcast quality the TV people transmit but DVD, HDD playback is great, so far I am very satisfied,
The toshiba almost qualifies for the title 'My flexible friend' with apologies to the similar TV advert.

Looked at various combi's, and this sounded about the best regarding function and value for money as I wanted to put all my old tapes on to DVD. Well I am not disappointed, I found recording to the hard drive first and then getting rid of the rubbish splitting the episodes and giving them separate titles is very good, once you get used to the remote controls, then recording to Disc I found the picture and sound quality was unchanged when i played it back on my laptop; I have not tried to take my film off my video camera yet but don't see too many issues. Initially it is worth keeping the manual close to hand. Without a doubt money well spent.

Well having read a few reviews about the product I became aware about the fan noise, but as it has a hard drive like the computer I am typing this on that small amount of noise is to be expected.

Other than that it does what you want it to, and is very good capable product.

I looked around, and could not find a product that does as much as this does at the price you can get this on Amazon!

DVD,VHS,Hard Drive & Freeview + all in one unit means this is a product well worth having.

I was in the market for a good solid all round machine that featured-
-A VCR
-DVD Recorder
-Hard Disk Drive akin to a Sky + box
-Freeview DVB

Backing up old VHS tapes was a must for me,and after a few simular machines failing on me
( Older DVD recorders seem to have high fail rate
and tend to break down) i took the plunge and ordered this model.

As of yet i have not given it a extensive playtest but from the strength
of the onboard Freeview mode i was pleasantly surprised of the signal strength i recieved via a normal INDOOR aerial! On a good day most of the channels are interference free and i did not need to change position of the aerial.Ch5?? Ah well...i have Sky for that station anyway :)

I havent sought out a region free code or macrovision bypass code as of yet,but from my experiance Toshiba machines are difficult to make region free,if it is possible at all.

I am pleased with this machine,it does exactly what i wanted it too do.