Toshiba DVR3 DVD Recorder/VCR Combination

by Toshiba

Product Details

Product Manual [7.22mb PDF]

• Item Weight: 9.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 15 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002J2IO0
• Item model number: D-VR3
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,635 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 20, 2004

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Note: Toshiba D-VR3 DVD Recorder/VCR Combination is no longer being manufactured. You may want to consider purchasing the newer Toshiba D-VR4 DVD Recorder/VCR Dual Deck instead.

Delivering great convenience on two fronts, Toshiba's D-VR3 combination DVD recorder and VCR opens a world of video recording and archiving options while saving valuable shelf space. It's a 4-head, hi-fi stereo VCR and a full-featured, progressive-scan DVD player that handles your DVDs, CDs, MP3 music discs, and JPEG-filled digital-photo discs, all wrapped into a component that stands just 3 inches tall. The recorder can store up to 12 hours of audio/video--whether broadcast programming or copies of your home movies to share with loved ones--on a 4.7 GB double-sided DVD-RAM disc and 6 hours on a write-once DVD-R or recordable DVD-RW.

The D-VR3's disc recorder offers the flexibility of recording on both DVD-RAM--perfect for instant chapter access and for multiple rerecordings--as well as DVD-R, the most widely compatible of the many DVD formats (great for sharing camcorder footage with loved ones). DVD-RW compatibility lets you erase and rewrite, though relatively few players and computer drives will play back DVD-RWs. DVD-RAM discs can be read, written, and erased more than 100,000 times.

Time Slip lets you use the device like a digital video recorder, or DVR. Because of DVD-RAM's speedy transfer rate, you can view the recorded portion of an ongoing program from the beginning, while still recording the show in progress.

The D-VR3 features a 181-channel cable-compatible tuner and advance programming accessible to both the VCR and the DVD recorder. Input your own program data or take advantage of built-in Gemstar VCR Plus+ (C3) technology for simplified programming. XDS auto clock set with Daylight Savings adjust ensures that your recorder will always be on time.

In addition to recording new video content, the D-VR3 lets you transfer and even enhance your favorite video recordings to durable, space-saving discs--a terrific way to archive, preserve, and access your movies and family videos. A convenient front-panel IEEE-1394 input is perfect for direct digital transfers of mini DV camcorder footage.

For superlative playback, the D-VR3 is equipped with a 10-bit/54 MHz video digital-to-analog converter capable of great color purity and detail. When connected to a high-definition or HD-ready television through its ColorStream Pro component-video outputs, the D-VR3 delivers a progressive-scan DVD picture. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

The D-VR3 also features Toshiba's Digital Cinema Progressive (3:2 pulldown reversal) for DVD playback. DVD mastering commonly introduces a distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 pulldown reversal digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture.

The deck's abundant connections include 2 composite-video and 1 S-video input, 2 sets of stereo analog (left/right) RCA inputs (with a choice, for DVD recording, of uncompressed, linear PCM or, to conserve disc space, Dolby Digital 2.0 audio encoding). The DVD and VCR sections share a single composite-video output and stereo analog audio output (saving input space on your TV or audio receiver), while the DVD player also offers the component-video outputs mentioned above, an S-video output, and a pair of digital-audio outputs (1 coaxial, 1 optical) for channeling Dolby Digital and DTS multichannel surround signals to a compatible digital surround receiver.

What's in the Box
DVD recorder/VCR combo, remote control, remote batteries, user's manual, stereo analog audio interconnect/composite-video cable, RF coaxial video cable.

Product Description

Records and plays DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, and DVD-R / 4 Head HiFi VCR / Slim Cabinet - Only 3.3" High / VCR Plus

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Suberb!, March 4, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Toshiba DVR3 DVD Recorder/VCR Combination (Electronics)

I had been wanting a DVD recorder for a long time, ever since I heard them on the Discovery Channel and I am so glad that that I saved up and bought this Toshiba DVD recorder, I like the DVD recorder and I like that it also has a VCR. I am sorry but I am very heavily disagreeing with the previous review that says this DVD recorder is hard too use, When I was shopping for a DVD recorder and I said I wanted one that was easy to use the sales guy told me that out of all the brands they were selling this was the easiest to use, the most user friendly and after having used this and taped over 100 movies that I taped off of cable movie channels I agree with him 100 percent This is so easy to use and the remote and its buttons is large enough for me and the movies I've taped on DVD's look great! You have to remember that you aren't going to get the picture quality that you would get with professionaly made DVD's that you buy with programs already on it and the quality is only going to be as good as your TV, cable or satelite reception. I have noticed that some blank DVD's work better than others, I prefer Memorex the picture always looks great while other brands I tried were bad. One guy said that his unit froze and I admit that happened to me once but it was because I had hit the wrong button but in my experience if you hit the DVD or vcr function keys then it starts working right and you don't need to reset the clock or channel memory. Also you must realize that sometimes you may put in a blank DVD that turns out to be a defective dud and a lot of times when the blank DVD fails people seem to automatically assume it was the recorder unit itself that failed and they don't stop to think that perhaps it was the blank DVD that failed and then they return the unit and bad mouth it without realizing that it was the DVD that was defective or that they themselves just did something wrong! I personally find this Toshiba DVD recorder with the VCR to be of the higest quality and I have no qualms about recommending it and if I could I would buy more of these for other rooms! Of course with any item like this it is possible to get a unit that is defective but my DVD recorder unit is not defective at all.

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tosibia D-VR3, January 2, 2005

By 

Millard "Millard" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba DVR3 DVD Recorder/VCR Combination (Electronics)

Have owned this unit for a week now and have copied several VHS tapes to DVD format using the Fuji DVD-R 4.7 GB discs. Very impressed with this machine. It is very easy to use. Just put your tape in the VCR side and your blank disc in the other and push one button and your off !! Bought for $313.00 at another web merchant so check prices before ordering. This unit can be had for less !!! The unit autmatically adjusts the tape tracking to copy the best image over to the DVD. THe discs come out very very good. I won't repeat what the other reviewer said about the units functionality as I agree with those statements. Overall a great machine for the money.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome !, January 18, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Toshiba DVR3 DVD Recorder/VCR Combination (Electronics)

I agree with what the other reviewer people said about this product.

Its a great DVD recorder and I want to say that I agree that its a bummer that you cant make pause edits while using the dubbing features on this unit but if you hook up another Video recorder or DVD recorder you can pause things and its kind of a pain to have to get the dubbing cables and hook up another unit but if you have a tape that needs editing this is what you have to do. btw: You can only copy tapes or DVD that aren't copyright protected. If you try it you will learn that the DVD recorder or VCR will not copy anything copyright protected. I only copy stuff that is not copyrighted so I dont have any problems.