Toshiba D-VR5 DVD Player/Recorder with VCR

by Toshiba

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.5 x 16.9 x 3.5 inches ; 13 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 13 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000F75YOA
• Item model number: D-VR5
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,804 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #72 in Electronics > Televisions & Video > DVD-VCR Combos

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Get maximum enjoyment out of both your VHS and DVD movie libraries with the progressive scan Toshiba D-VR5 DVD player/recorder with integrated full-featured VCR. It records onto DVD-R/RW as well as DVD-RAM discs, and it's also compatible with playing CD-R/RW and VCD discs. You can play discs burned with MP3 and WMA digital audio files, and it's also DivX Home Theater Certified--meaning that it's compatible with video burned to disc using both the DivX video format. You can also view photo slideshows from Kodak Picture CDs with JPEG images. The D-VR5 makes it easy to connect to brilliant imagery with its component and HDMI connections--the latter offering pure digital audio/video performance with no degradation of signal.

The VCR features 19-micron heads that match precisely the width of the SP and EP azimuths and read only the signal recorded on each azimuth (not adjoining tracks). Other VCR features include 8-event/1-month programming and auto channel setup.

The DVD recorder allows you to record TV programming while your out of the house with a timer function, but it also offers easy one-touch recording. You get six compression modes for DVD recording from 1 hour to 6 hours of video onto one disc. Other recording features include automatic title/chapter/thumbnail creation, time base correction, and auto finalization. Playback features include fast forward with audio (1.5x speed), fast scan, and slow motion.

The D-VR5 performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal, too--a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. To adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video, frames in the original movie must be duplicated; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this duplication by removing the redundant information to display a frame-accurate picture.

You get vivid, realistic sound, thanks to Toshiba's 24-bit/96 kHz pulse code modulation (PCM) audio processor. PCM audio translates digital signals from your DVDs and CDs into warmer, natural sound. The DVD player offers Dolby Digital and DTS decoding, and you can connect to a multi-channel home theater surround sound system via the coaxial digital audio output. It also produces 3D virtual surround sound from two speakers. It features the following video and audio connections:

• Composite A/V: 2 in (1 front), 1 out
• S-Video: 2 in (1 front), 1 out
• Component Video: 1 out
• HDMI: 1 out
• RF: 1 in, 1 out
• Digital audio: 1 optical

Tech Talk
DivX is a compressed digital video format (like MP3) that's based on the MPEG-4 video compression standard. It can reduce the video from a DVD (MPEG-2) to around 10 percent of its original size while still retaining good video and audio quality, enabling you to store several two-hour length movies on burned DVD media.

HDMI is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV--all over a single cable. HDMI supports standard, enhanced or high definition video, plus multi-channel digital audio on a single cable. It supports all ATSC formats--standard (SDTV), enhanced (EDTV), and high (HDTV).

Component video (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound.

DVD-RAM is the most flexible of the recordable DVD formats when it comes to recording, editing and playback. With a DVD-RAM disc, you'll be able re-record content approximately 100,000 times.

What's in the Box
DVD player/recorder/VCR, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions

Product Description

MULTI DRIVE DVD RECORDER W/VCR HDMI

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

54 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All in one unit with lots of features, December 30, 2006

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T. Breazeal (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba D-VR5 DVD Player/Recorder with VCR (Electronics)

This unit has so many features it will take me a month to try them all. The most noticeable feature so far is ease of use. Transfer from VHS tape to DVD requires only a few inputs on the remote, the same is true to tranfer digital camera video onto DVD. This is still a new unit for me but I'm very impressed. Recording a tv show is straight forward and to be expected from any recorder so rest assured it works well as a basic recorder.

40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but., January 14, 2007

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Kevvboy "Kevv" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

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I know it's typical of many electronics to come with little or no documentation, but the Toshiba manual that comes with this unit is fairly pitiful.

One warning: it won't allow you to monitor the dubbing process if you use an HDMI cable to connect this DVR to your TV. Switching in and out of HDMI mode is laborious and just an issue of bad design. I havent figured out a workaround yet but I'm sure I'll find one eventually.

I also respectfully disagree that the dubbing and recording process are easy and instinctive. This is a good unit once I spent a long weekend figuring out how to make it do what it says.

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Toshiba D-VR5 DVD Play/Record w/VCR, March 31, 2007

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Jake "macjac" (SopranoLand) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba D-VR5 DVD Player/Recorder with VCR (Electronics)

EXACTLY what I was NEEDED! This is no toy! There seems to be some negative
comments due to the Lag-Time between the time that you turn on the recorder,
and when it opens the tray: --- Patience, Grasshopper! --- this machine does so
much more!

IT'S A COMPUTER! Allow it to go through it's boot-up process, after which the
responses are just as fast as any other DVD Player It's a tool, you need to read
the manual throughly but once you understand the concept, it's very simple.
AT LAST! I can transfer my MASSIVE VHS Library! Unfortunately some had al-
ready begun to degrade. BACK & FORTH!!!! Far Out! VHS to DVD & Vice Versa!

Aside from the ability to handle the newest blank media (includ. RAM & DOUBLE
SIDED Disks) the best part is being able to record off my TV! It's every bit as easy
to record multiple 5 minute segments of a newsreel, or a 6 hour congressional
meeting at the touch of a button as it had been on my old VCR.

TV, VCR, Now DVD-R <--- All TOSHIBA! ;) I just keep coming back!