Product Description

The 3-in-1 RDX-V47 records to both DVD discs and VHS tapes. It comes with a 160 GB in-built memory for hours of programmes. It's also compatible with DivX formats as well as your old VHS cassettes. You?ll save on space with this incredibly practical appliance!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10891 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Toshiba
• Model: RDXV47
• Released on: 2007-03-08

Customer Reviews

Very good for the money but some issues
As the other reviews say this unit is very good functional value for money and once you've sorted the connections (see below) very easy to use. It disappoints slightly with its rigid enforcement of region and copyright controls as you cannot copy your old videos to the hard disc and we had to buy a supplementary multiregion player to play current DVDs.

The big surprise though was its bizarre feature/design fault where many of the output options do not support VHS playback. You are not warned in the spec or the instructions (and even the Toshiba help line were no use). If for example you connect using the S-Video output you cannot play VHS videos and you (and the helpline) will think the unit is broken. So use the SCART output and IF you have a spare SCART input left, all will be fine

Witchraft!
A am approaching 40 years old and therefore officially unable to operate even the most basic form of home entertainment system, let alone one with so many functions as the Toshiba RDXV47 (I mean, "RDXV47", its name alone is your guarantee you'll never get any of it to work....I feared the worst even when I was adding to my Amazon basket). But, for reasons I still don't fully understand, I can actually get everything on this machine to work. What's more, I pretty much got them all to work, first time out of the box, with very little reference to the manual. The folks at Toshiba have produced something that is intuitive, and actually makes everything easy. Honest.

To install it, I drew a quick diagram of what my old DVD player was already plugged into what (TV, games console, Sky box), then unplugged my old DVD player, plugged in the RDXV47, switched everything back on and...it all still worked, and the Toshiba just automatically tuned itself in. Then I put in a VHS home movie, pressed play and then hit the 'dub' button and.....recorded my old VHS tape onto the hard disk. Then I put in a blank DVD, formatted it (following the simple on-screen instructions) started playing back the home movie from the hard disk and pressed 'dub' again. The machine recorded the movie straight onto the DVD. I kept telling myself it shouldn't be this easy. I have now transferred all of my precious and fragile VHS footage (wedding, children, etc.) onto DVD and the HDD with zero stress or frustration. The machine had paid for itself already.

Then the ultimate test - setting the timer to record something. Normally impossible for VCRs - tradition dictates you press 19 buttons in the strictly prescribed sequence, then switch the timer on and still either record the wrong channel at the wrong time...or record nothing. Not so here. It's all just dead straight forward and works every time. I have not missed a baseball game this season, and can fit hundreds of them on the big HDD, especially if I record in Long Play mode.

The machine also records TV programmes onto the hard disk at the single touch of a button (handy if a programme comes on and you want to record it straight away...no searching for blank tapes), it also plays back AVIs and DIVX movies. I cannot rate this device highly enough - it does everything you need it to do, and does it so simply and intuitively...even for men of a certain age.

Seriously This is What Your Looking For
Ive Actually turned on my computer just to write this it does anything DVD TO VHS vice versa,put your saved stuff on sky plus either to it big Hard Drive or on to disc or vhs, it does everthing, but sadly want make toast thats the only down fall it Mint, Top Notch the top B*llocks, Buy Now or its your loss......

But ive got one so i dont care wat u do.

Do it Though