Features:

  • Combines functionality of multiple A/V components into a single unit: DVD player/recorder, VCR, and digital tuner, with support for MP3/WMA/JPEG/DivX files
  • Built-in ATSC/NTSC/QAM Tuner,90-Day Labor and 1-Year Parts Warranty
  • One-touch/programmable recording and playback of DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW formats and VHS cassette; dubbing from DVD to tape and vice versa
  • Video upconversion of DVD resolution up to 1080p via HDMI output; support for Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound formats
  • Front DV and RCA inputs for easy recording to DVD from digital video cameras and other sources; rear RCA and S-VHS inputs also provided
Clock gaining hours overnight and the fix

Before purchasing this unit I read all of the reviews so I was aware of the problem with the clock gaining time. The clock on this unit gained 4 hours overnight. I called the customer support line (1-866-583-7353) and found out how to fix the problem. Press Set Up. Select General Setting, Select Clock, Select Auto Clock, Select OFF! Press Set Up to exit. Go back in again and this time manually input the actual time. I just set it up on Thursday, February 25, 2010, so have not had it long. After the above fix on Friday the unit did not gain time overnight. Today I set it up to record a movie. I purchased my first Toshiba from a box store after having purchased Panasonic and Samsung, which were both defective. I replaced them with my first Toshiba Combo, which was suggested by a sales person and I found it to be friendlier to use and it worked great. Because of the reviews on Amazon and my own experience with my other Toshiba I decided to buy this unit since I needed one with a tuner. So far I find it to be easy to use and I am very satisfied. I would definitely recommend this unit. To me looking at units in stores is confusing. Having personal reviews to read helps me decide what to buy. Thank you, Amazon.com!

Very nice unit for the price

I bought this unit because my old vcr died. I wanted a DVD recorder, but i also liked the idea of being able to dub my old vhs home movies onto DVD as well. The unit has been outstanding for a unit in this price range. It works similar to the old vcr and another DVD player that i have, so setup and usage were very easy for me. The only problem I have encountered so far is that if you are going to dub from vhs to dvd, or vice versa, you have to make sure the output is on L1 or L2. I am not even sure what that is about, but if you leave it on the channel, it will record the channel that is on tv instead of dubbing from the tape. It is a simple switch of of a button on the remote to change it, so its very easy, but it is not spelled out specifically in the instruction manual. I have dubbed tapes to dvd, recorded on dvd and vhs, and watched dvds in this machine. It functions very well, and I have had no issues with it freezing up in the middle of movies, as our other dvd player sometimes did. I am very happy with this unit and would recommend it to others.

Economical and easy to use

We used to have TIVO for DirecTV, but the trees grew too tall and we decided to cancel the satellite TV service rather than cutting down trees again (which we had just done 5 years prior). We now get all our digital channels over the air with a good antenna inside the attic. So, my set up now is: I ran a coaxial cable from the antenna in the attic to the back of the TV area. I then used a little splitter to split the signal in the back of the TV area (the cable from the antenna went into one side of the splitter and I attached two short cables to the other side of the splitter). One of those short coaxial cables goes to the TV antenna input, and the other short cable goes to the Toshiba digital recorder antenna input. I then attached an HDMI cable from the Toshiba recorder to the TV (this brings the signal from the recorder into the TV). I use DVD-RW disks to record my favorite shows with the Toshiba. I can format the disks (which erases all the shows) so that I can use the same disk over and over again. Using the Toshiba, I can now watch one channel on the TV while recording another show. Also, the Toshiba has a digital tuner, so I can program it to record "Nate" on Channel 4.1 at 2 p.m., "General Hospital" on Channel 7.1 at 3 p.m., etc. It is easy to use and I didn't have any trouble setting it up and scanning for digital channels. The only glitch compared to having a TIVO, I think, is that if you lose power for more than a few minutes, you also lose your programming on the Toshiba, so you have to go back into the menu and tell it what it is supposed to record (again), and also reset the clock. With TIVO, you never have to do this after a power outage because it remembers all your settings. I am very very happy with the Toshiba. I also have an older model Toshiba DVD recorder that I got a few years ago that doesn't have digital tuning. I have an HDMI cable going from the old Toshiba into the TV, so I can do an exercise video or watch a movie while the new Toshiba is recording my favorite shows.

Excellent VCR replacement but no HD

First I'd like to clarify a few points made by other reviewers: 1. One reviewer says "the tuner works well, it produces high image qualify from HDTV". I bought the unit partially because of this review. The fact is the tuner of this unit is not capable of receiving HDTV channels. It can only receive 480i SD DTV channels. This actually makes sense since the best quality it can record is 480p DVD, not much point to receive HD channel (it would have been nice if it did). 2. Another reviewer complaints about the clock erroneously adjusts itself from time to time. I had the same problem but it turned out to be an operator error. User's Manual clearly says that if the unit cannot find a PBS to set its clock automatically during initial setup, turn off the automatic clock setting. Once this is done, I have not had any problem. 3. A 1-star review says that this unit has only QAM NTSC tuner but not QAM ATSC tuner. This is incorrect. It does have ATSC tuner and is capable of receiving DTV channels over the air or from cable. It is just not capable of receiving anything better than 480i SD (see #1 above). Although this unit is capable of up scaling output to 1080p, there is really no point of doing so. Its video source is 480p at best and most HDTV sets do a better job up-scaling anyway. My Sony XBR4 actually has trouble displaying proper aspect ratio if I have the DVR670 output 1080p to TV directly. So my setup is to output 480p thru HDMI and let the TV does the up-scaling. My TV is then able to display 4:3 or 16:9 DTV properly. A single HDMI cable makes connection simple and cable management easy. Since it is 480p, I can use cheap cable. Overall this is an excellent VCR replacement for me (I had used VCR to record daily news to view after work for the last 20 years). What I like: 1. Very good video recording quality using RW DVD. 2. Easy to use timer recording programming, flexible to do daily, weekly, weekdays, etc. 3. 30 sec skip during playback is a great and easy to use feature. I figured out commercial for my news recording is about 150 sec, so just press the button 5 times and I am 90% commercial free. 4. Makes transferring old tape video to DVD really easy. 5. Easy setup. User's manual can be a bit overwhelming but it does provide useful information for resolving issues you might encounter What I don't like: 1. Display on the front panel is tiny and hard to read from 5' out. My 8-year old JVC VCR has much better display. 2. Like many reviewers have said, the letters on the remote is HARD to read. I try to memorize the button locations so I don't have to look at the letters. Toshiba could and should have made this user interface much more friendly. 3. When playing DVD movies some previews show annoying gray boarder on my XBR4 TV. If I play the same DVD from my PS3 I don't have this problem. I do not use DVR670 for playing DVD movies, so it is not really a problem for me UPDATE: Almost 6 years after I posted the original review, I was surprised to receive a comment requesting me to update the review to clarify my points (1) and (3) as the requester believes these two conflict with each other. You can see comments for this review for details of requester's question. Here's my reply: This unit is able to receive and decode digital and analog channels, so it has an ATSC tuner, not a NTSC tuner (old analog only tuner). However, when scanning over the air it is not able to tune in to any HD channel, only SD digital channels. This has nothing to do with recording capability (only 480P). You simply won't get any HD channel in the channel list after you scan. My TV had no problem finding HD channels. Not all ATSC tuners are equal.

Forget the bad mouthing of this unit.

I bought this model recorder/player in 2012. I have used it quite a lot. It was refurbished from the factory and I bought it from a seller that gave great service, fast mailing and communicated well, about it all. This player/recorder is just as good as the $500+ units. The quality in the recordings is excellent. Can record programs direct to DVD disc or VHS tape and transfer to DVD. You can record on another VCR machine, edit out the ads on two VCR machines, bring it into where you have this unit, set it up per instructions, to record the VHS tape to the DVD disc. If you go to a blank channel after the VHS program is done and record that blank channel for a few seconds, it will act as a buffer to edit your recording so that if you forget the tape running, the DVD will have marked it as ended and not record beyond that dead spot that you placed into it. It takes a bit to set it up right, the instructions are really not the best, but, if you go through the entire booklet, make highlights or notes or add stickers saying what is where in that section of the booklet, before you attempt to set it up, it will be very helpful. The remote is kind of an odd design with having to push on buttons for different commands all over it to achieve one or two commands, but after you use it for a while you get to understand it better and better. Just like a new car. There is so much more to this, but not enough room to write it all, but, if you want very good recording capabilites, with special items like zoom rates of 1.0, 1.2, to 1.5 and to 2.0 with a square box that comes on screen when you pause the DVD and push the 'zoom' button, you can move the square on teh screen where ever and then hit enter and it will magnify that square. Great feature. When running in record mode, you can hardly hear it at all. Only little draw back is that when loading a DVD disc in, the unit scans the disc thoroughly for several seconds before ready to play. But this unit has many many nice features that most will enjoy, IF YOU HAVE PATIENCE. That is No.1 !!! If mine goes out, I will definitely buy another one like it. It is that good. UPDATE: September 2013: I am still using this recorder player and have no problems what so ever with it. Still records great and clear from VHS to DVD or vice versa. Recording off of TV is a snap and records very nicely from that also. If you are wondering whether you should get one of these, do not hesitate as it is a wonderful unit and I am very happy with it. Remote can be intimidating a bit, but, the more you use it, the more you will master the controls. This unit has a plethora of cammands that can be used for different uses. While the manual is a tad vague, you can get it off of their website and print your own manual pages for what you need it for. Have fun!!

A Great Little Machine!

Previously I owned a separate VCR and DVD player, but when the VCR finally gave out, I was shocked to discover that replacing it with another stand-alone unit was no longer an option. Okay - Plan B. I researched VCR/DVD combo units and finally landed on this one. I read the other reviewers - some loved it, some did not. I'm glad I went with my gut and bought it anyway, from Amazon. Right away I liked the good price and free shipping. Then I discovered I liked the machine. True, the manual is large and can be intimidating, but I learned a long time ago that you don't need to know how to do everything in a manual, just what you personally want to do. It didn't take long to learn how to record from television or copy from a video to a DVD, the two things I really wanted. My only disappointment is that some videos seem to be copy-protected and can't be transferred onto DVD. But this is not the fault of the machine. If you want a good VCR and DVD and have need for a built-in tuner, as I did, this machine is for you.

Toshiba DVR670KU - if using antenna, read this

Update 1/25/12: Toshiba DVR stopped recording programs - Top Menu showed something had been recorded, but there was no program, just a black space. Tried everything in manuals (DVR and TV), no luck, including no help from Toshiba Support. Finally looked at our TV's Self Diagnosis page, Signal Information, and learned that the DTV channel we were trying to record actually has a different "physical channel" number. PBS DTV 15-1's physical channel number in our neighborhood is 30. So we set TV on DTV 15-1 and set Toshiba DVR to record DTV 30-1, and it worked. Those of you who have similar setup - no cable, over the air channels only using antenna - who are having trouble recording programs may want to find out if the channel you're trying to record has a different physical number. ---- Had to return the first Toshiba DVR to amazon.com because it made a noise (click-click-click) while operating. The noise was loud enough to hear during a program. Received replacement unit and it works fine - no clicks. Thanks, Amazon. As others have written the owner's manual could have been organized better, but we were able to find out how to do what we wanted, and the unit works great. Wish the remote control had larger buttons, but all in all we're very satisfied with the product.

Toshiba VCR/DVD recorder

I like it. I have a large collection of VCR tapes and I wanted them on disc. I also wanted to record all the shows that I had missed. I confess I'm also a football fan. If you are watching football or any show there's a pause button for playing or recording. It has quite a memory and once you've finished it records it on disc. In this instance you're instructing it what to record or not to record before it puts the recording on disc. You can format blank discs for a two, four, six or eight hour format. Low formats bring higher quality but I usually prefer the six hour format and put several games or movies on the same disc. The best blank disc is DVD+RW. Along with the Toshiba the DVD+RW allows for more editing. You can wipe the disc clean and format it again. Now I purchased it for the right price at $189 in 2010 and nearly choked when I saw today's prices in excess of $400. At this price the buyer should be quite sure about what he wants. I seldom use it for playing DVDs. I bought a nice DVD player for less than $50 with a neat remote control. I only use the Toshiba for recording.

Does Everything I Need It To Do

After I threw my Panasonic DMR-EZ485VK 1080p VHS DVD Recorder with Built In Tuner in the garbage, I decided to take another chance on a DVD/VHS recorder and went with this Toshiba model. I couldn't be happier. I had numerous problems with the Panasonic reading dvds and locking up. I have had no such problems with this Toshiba player. Although the dvds don't look quite as well as they do in a blu ray, they still look quite good and if you can't afford both a blu ray and dvd/vhs player, you won't be disappointed in how dvds appear with this machine. I read some reviews that thought the instructions were complicated. Well, all I can say is that they didn't read the instructions for the Panasonic DMR-EZ485VK. Believe me, the instructions included with this player/recorder are MUCH better. The instruction booklet included with the Toshiba is quite large (7.5 by 10 inches) with decent size type and well illustrated. I don't know how much easier they could have made it. Let's face it, there are a lot of functions with this recorder and a lot of choices based on what type of recording medium you choose. Toshiba has to explain them all as it does not know which ones you are going to use. Believe me, if you just follow the steps, you should be able to figure it out. I have easily and successfully recorded over the air TV programs on dvds with this (I actually use a 2-way splitter configuration that was not in the booklet, but gave me more flexibility due to the number and type of inputs I have on my TV). I have given up cable, so can't comment on cable recording. And if you are wondering if I actually use the dvd player portion of this since I have a blu ray, the answer is yes. Sometimes you just want to leave a disc in the blu ray player because you couldn't watch the whole thing and want to immediately pick up where you left off. So, the extra dvd player comes in handy if I want to put in an exercise dvd to work out to, or watch a TV program that I have recorded earlier in the day while at work (something that doesn't really "have" to be played in a blu ray). So, until blu ray recorders come out at a reasonable price, I will be happily using this for my recording needs.

Toshiba DVR670/DVR670KU DVD/VHS Recorder with Built in Tuner, Black purchased at Amazon

If you need to convert old vhs tapes to dvd, I highly recommend this machine. While it is a bit bulky, and the initial use instructions are not easily understood even by someone like myself, who works in the technology field, this machine performs flawlessly. The vhs tp dvd dubbing is actually a simple process once you understand the directions given in the user guide. After several careful readings of the instructions and still not a clue on how to use it, I called their technical support line. What a pleasant experience. They took me step by step through the process over the phone, patiently waiting as I completed each step before moving on to the next step. Not only was Toshiba tech support knowledgeable and courteous, they spoke English. I don't know which I would give higher marks to: the Toshiba recorder or the Toshiba tech support. The key to using the machine and following the instructions is the fact that the instructions and commands to run the machine are done on a tv that must be hooked to the Toshiba recorder. And you cannot run the recorder without using the remote control. The actual dubbing process was simple and efficient producing exceelent dvd copies. I have not yet used the digital tv tuner to record tv programs from my digital cable provider so I have not comments on that topic. This product exceeded my expectations for performance and quality.

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