Customer Reviews

Toshiba M265 2-Head VCR

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Low price, spotty picture quality As a disposable-priced VCR this is fine; it's unsuitable for dubbing tapes though. It worked fine right out of the box, and the on-screen time counter etc. worked fine.

I bought this VCR to save a little money, and I'll keep it rather than go to the trouble and postage for an exchange. You get what you pay for in this case.

The case is smaller and much lighter than most VCRs that I've handled, and the input and output jacks are well labelled. This would make a good VCR for a child's room or playroom, I think. Since the display quality is like a mediocre tape-dub job, this wouldn't do as a second VCR for copying tapes. Since the buttons and printing on the remote control are very tiny, a separate remote would be a must if the machine is meant for a child's use. I strained to read the lettering myself.

It's working fine so far (I haven't tried the programming functions). The image quality for a good tape is mediocre: faces and so on look a bit smeared and there's some aliasing visible (as with lower quality computer images). This problem might be caused by the tape heads. (I imagine the quality would be just fine for most cartoons though.) As important, it adds a lot of bright specks to the picture when the scenery is very dark (and the picture is properly colored when the scenery is bright). I think this darkness-problem is electronic and not caused by the tape heads. If you like movies with dimly light bedroom scenes, or soldiers creaping through the shadows, the bright flickering noise will bug you.

Personally, if I could rewrite the original order, I'd spend a bit more since the VCR is for me. This price is not a slash-down sale sort of deal, or a clearance deal; it's in line with the quality. It's a bit hard to believe that Toshiba actually made it.

I bought this for my children's bedroom. It works beautifully so far and it was so easy to set up and use. I think it is great...and a great price!

for 70 bucks this is a great value! i returned my ge 4 head vcr in exchange for this one and i'm keeping it.

I HAVE PURCHACED A TOSHIBA VCR 4-HEAD HI-FI MODEL M622 AND HAVE RESENTLY LOST REMOTE. COULD YOU HELP ME FIND ONE THAT WILL WORK "ALL" THE FUNCTIONS. THANK YOU MICHAEL WEBSTER SR.