Product Description

The RD-97DT from Toshiba has a 250 GB hard drive on which you can store your favourite films and programmes, and has an HDMi output and 1080i upscaling function, allowing you to view your DVDs in high definition on a television. It also comes with a digital tuner and DV input so you can save your personal creations onto DVD. Discover the advantages of digital recording with the RD-97DT!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11974 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Toshiba
• Model: RD97DTKTB
• Released on: 2007-09-17
• Dimensions: 2.32" h x 12.40" w x 16.54" l, 8.60 pounds

Features

• DVD recorder
• Freeview and Analogue
• Audio Dolby Digital / Dts Surround
• Recording format DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD+R/DVD+RW
• 250GB Gb hard disk capacity

Manufacturer's Description
The RD97DT HDD DVD Recorder/Player allows you to enjoy digital television and archive hours of TV programmes on your hard drive.

The RD97DT comes with both a digital Freeview TV tuner and a standard analogue tuner. Its Massive 250 GB hard drive allows you to enjoy advanced recording functions such as TimeSlip, and record up to 424 Hours of TV, that's enough for 280 football matches.

The RD97DT is also equipped with a 8 day TV electronic programme guide, EPG, and also a 36 event/1 month timer. In addition, this recorder is capable of recording and playing DVD+R/+RW and DVD-R/RW formats, making it possible to record content and play back on other players. Add to all this, a HDMI connection which upscales the picture, to 1080p on a compatible HD Ready TV, and you have Recorder which is huge on features and offers superb picture quality.

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Customer Reviews

Rubbish!
Yesterday, my husband bought this DVD recorder to go with our new Toshiba TV and, on paper, it seemed a good buy. 250GB of hard drive space, a reasonable price. On taking it home and setting it up, it became obvious that all was not well. It is noisy with a really audible humming noise. Trying to press a channel number on the remote didn't seem to work, we then realised that it was because it was so slow to respond. The remote control is made of plastic and not even smooth plastic at that! The recorder really feels cheaply made and looks like it has been put together in some third world country. Needless to say, it's gone back to the shop this morning and we have bought a Panasonic instead! Interestingly, we thought that the Toshiba's humming noise might be due to the fact that it has a hard drive but our new Panasonic is quiet, so it's not the reason. We already have another Panasonic DVD Recorder and I am really impressed with Panasonic, it's really easy to use and, if you also have a Panasonic TV, you can use a feature exclusive to Panasonic: Direct TV Recording: if you are watching TV and you realise you really want to record what you have started watching, you press a button and the DVD recorder records automatically what you are watching.

poor product from a good brand
I bought this as I have a Toshiba HD TV. Very happy with the TV, this product is poor, poor menus, poor setup, poor HDMI connectivity. It actually worked better through SCART than HDMI. Even simply playing a DVD caused flickering on the top and pottom 4 to 5 pixels when using HDMI.

Good value with good features
This is my first dip into DVD Recorder/HDMI waters & did lots of research before buying this player,I have a Toshiba 37" LCD so that swayed me somewhat. I have had none of the problems written about by the other reviewers, It's been easy to to set up has performed without a hitch in every aspect,ok The build quality is'nt great but overall good value for money I also use a learning remote to control all the system so the original remote is not required.

Considering the price & all the features it has I think I got a good buy & not at all disapointed I therefore give it 5 stars.