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Toshiba DR420 DVD Recorder, Black
 
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Toshiba DR420 DVD Recorder, Black

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Technical Details

  • Records -R/-RW, +R/+RW Formats
  • Playback:MP3, VCD, JPEG, Kodak Pic
  • 1080P Upconversion and DV Input
  • Auto-Finalization
  • HDMI connection
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Product Details

  • Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 16.6 x 2.3 inches ; 5.3 pounds
  • Shipping Weight: 7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
  • ASIN: B001T6O0ZK
  • Item model number: DR420
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (104 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #283 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
    #3 in  Electronics > Televisions & Video > Disc Players & Recorders > DVD Recorders
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: March 1, 2009

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ASIN: B001T6O0ZK ATTRIBUTE_NAME: 7449 REVIEW: The DR420 is an excellent solution for archiving your favorite home movies to DVD, recording your favorite programs, or simply enjoying your DVD collection. Enhance your DVD collection with 1080p upconversion to near HD picture quality, play back a variety of media formats, access a wealth of recording options, and plenty more.

Archive your home movies to DVD, record your favorite programs, or enjoy your DVD collection. 

Video Upconversion up to 1080p Resolution via HDMI
For an amazing viewing experience on today's HDTVs, the DR420 will upconvert lower-resolution video to full 1080p resolution.

One Touch Recording
One Touch Recording makes recording your favorite show simple. Just connect your DVD recorder/VCR to your cable or satellite box and you are set to record with the push of one button. (Note that the DR420 does not have a built-in tuner, so a box or receiver will be necessary.)

Multi-Format Recording and Playback
The DR420 provides the utmost in recording media convenience, with compatibility with the most popular formats (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW). Users can easily create edits such as renaming titles and chapter creation (manual and auto).

For playback, the DR420 also has you covered. Enjoy your favorite DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW discs. Or crank up some of your favorite music, whether it's a CD, CD-R/RW, or an MP3/WMA CD for hours of listening. Finally, your family can enjoy pics from the latest trip or event with playback of JPEG picture CDs.

Remote included. Control compatible REGZA-LINK devices with a single remote.

Rear connection diagram (the front of the unit features a DV input).

Auto Finalize With Undo
This feature simplifies the recording process by automatically finalizing your recording for playback on standard DVD players.

REGZA-LINK
REGZA-LINK makes controlling multiple components easy. Connect this player to a compatible REGZA-LINK television using an HDMI cable, and then control them both using one remote, with no additional programming or setup required.

Front DV Input
Capturing memories from your digital video camera is a snap with the Front DV input. Just connect with a commercially available mini DV/Firewire cable and you're ready to record (S-Video and Composite video/audio inputs also available).

Quality Audio
You'll enjoy excellent audio reproduction thanks to the DR420's 192kHz/24-Bit D/A converter. Enjoy recording and playback of Dolby Digital two-channel, L-PCM formats, or add a little space to your sound with the 3D virtual surround effect.

Connection Options
For convenient connection to most any system, Toshiba has included several inputs and outputs:

  • Component Out: 1
  • HDMI Out (with REGZA-LINK): 1
  • Front S-Video Input: 1
  • Rear S-Video Input/Output: 1/1
  • Rear RCA-Video Input/Output: 1/1
  • Front Audio Input: 1
  • Rear Analog Audio Input/Output: 1/1
  • Coaxial Digital Audio Output: 1
  • Front DV Input: 1

What's in the Box
Toshiba DR420 DVD Recorder, Remote Control With Batteries, Composite Video Cable, RCA Audio Cable, User's Manual END

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203 of 205 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect replacement for a VCR (plus good upconverting DVD player), April 17, 2009
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This review is from: Toshiba DR420 DVD Recorder, Black (Electronics)
This unit is really great! We recently got a 40" HD TV and needed a replacement for the VCR -- we wanted to record shows (and On-Demand movies) at a good enough quality for HD viewing.

One option was DVR from Comcast for $10/month (which might or might not allow recording of On-Demand movies and transfer to computer for disc-burning). Another option was using a computer with a video acquisition device and record to hard drive. The third option was this unit for $110, delivered, from Amazon -- hands down the most practical choice.

Though this unit doesn't record in true HD resolution, the quality is about the same (in 2 hour mode, 16x9) as regular 16x9 enhanced DVDs. At first I was worried the recorded discs might not play on other DVD players; but they did, no problem at all on any of our equipment (that is, after the recording is finalized). The recording time for a DVD-R disc (on high quality mode) was 2 hours and 8 minutes. (On lower quality modes, it's 4+ hours and 8+ hours.)

Navigating the menu system is easy enough, and each recorded disk is given a simple menu with the various recordings available to choose from (which by default have the date & time of recording as the title, but can be renamed).

Upconversion of commercial DVDs is quite good (enough so that we're not that motivated to get a Blu-Ray player yet ;-).

Our only complaints (which are very minor) are that the tray-eject is a little slow & noisy and that there isn't component video inputs (just composite video & S-Video inputs). But it was easy enough to hook up to our cable box (or TV) to record from their outputs.

This will be a great unit to have until Blu-Ray recorders become less expensive.
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96 of 98 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Works perfectly, June 11, 2009
By Ulf Axmacher (Missing Finger, VT) - See all my reviews
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I bought this unit to transfer videotapes to DVD, and to save TV shows on DVD from my cable DVR. For that purpose, it works perfectly. The setup is simple, and the controls are very easy to use. The manual is very clear, with nice big pictures to show you where the relevant buttons are. I had it set up and dubbing within 15 minutes.

I only use DVD-R format discs (due to their universal compatibility), so I cannot comment on how the recorder works with other formats. But when I played back my recorded DVD-R on other machines, I had no compatibility issues, they played perfectly, and the picture was sharp and clear.

DVD-R discs have to be "finalized" before they can be played in other machines. This unit finalized a 3/4 full DVD in just a couple minutes- much faster than other DVD recorders I have used in the past.

The recorder only offers Composite and S-video inputs. It would have been nice to have Component or HDMI inputs as well for higher quality. However, I used the S-Video input and the playback quality was still excellent.

The recorder does offer Composite, S-Video, Component, and HDMI outputs, which gives you lots of options for connecting to your display. I went with the HDMI connection because it is simple (just 1 cable for both audio and video) and provides the highest quality.

As a bonus, this unit is also a very good upscaling DVD player. With the HDMI connection to my display, I was very impressed with the quality of the 1080p upscaled image.

For the very reasonable price ([...]), this is a nice piece of equipment which performs as advertised.
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54 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great price and performance, April 26, 2009
By Michael A. Mccormick (Daly City,Calif.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba DR420 DVD Recorder, Black (Electronics)
I bought this unit after reveiwing other brands on the Amazon web pages. I wanted to copy from Tivi to DVD.Nice owners guide and physical looks. The tray opens just like other players with a little noise, no big deal! It does take awhile to finallize your dvd copys but, no big deal. Component out only,no cable terninals,no tuner. the recording light on the front is real tiny.On screen menu is good. For my use this recorder is perfect.
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