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This will be my last Toshiba product. Other times, it displays just snow. The dvd player often stops in the middle of the movie and no way can I restart it. Toshiba had problems with this a while back, but it is still junk. The thing did well for a while. It has no tuner, but you can run cables from other places. I thought it was a bad dvd but the disk works fine on other players.
I just wanted a VCR drive in there to play any "legacy" tapes I still have lying around.It works. With the "auto play all the time" behavior, I constantly have to make sure the volume is down, stop it, advance it, turn the volume back up. There is no pause button, and the FF/RWD CD controls advance through the current song, but there is no separate "skip" button. But.1. I want it to just load and be "ready", and let me possibly skip to the track I want.
Once it recognizes a CD, it automatically starts to play it. AWKWARD.3. That has been the trend to cut costs on these cheap units, because front panel controls are expensive compared to putting them on a remote.I also don't like the "standby" type of power switch. The remote control has all these functions, but I loathe devices that depend on the remote control as the only source of certain important functions. How about just "On/Off".In short, there are too many hidden/automatic/nonavailable/weirdly labeled things about this that make it awkward to use. I'd say about 30 seconds, and that is unacceptable.2. I haven't even used the record function, and probably never will.
The picture quality is good. Often, I don't want it to do that. They work much better that way and have controls that humans intuitively understand. I will probably never buy a combo drive in the future if I can help it, even if I have to hunt down generations-old devices on eBay to get a separate CD player, separate DVD player, and separate VCR. I bought this to have a means to play CDs, DVDs and VCR tapes in one compact box. When you insert a CD or DVD, it takes the drive a long time to figure out which it is and start to play it. The front panel controls are very limited.
Total garbage The display counter goes to 00:01 on both the DVD and VHS sides, and that's it, nada. I tried resetting it, hooking it to 3 different TV's, hooking it through different cables, and nothing. Doubt if Best Buy will do anything either. DO NOT buy this machine. I purchased mine at Best Buy in late July, watched exactly one DVD on it, and now it won't play anything, anywhere, anytime. Toshiba only has a 90 day warranty, and since we don't watch many movies, I'm SOL.
Do not buy the SD-V295KU DVD Video Player & Video Cassette Recorder. Since the warantee is for 90 days only, I am out the full purchase price. Purchased from Amazon thru third party 6ave.com. After less than 4 months of use, it "ate" one of my VCR tapes (could not eject it). 6th Avenue does not consider unusual circumstances - only the miniscule manafacturer warantee.
I do not recommend this product.90 DAY WARRANTY. All the wires are hooked properly, but yet it seems to have a mind of its own. CHANGE THAT TO ZERO STARS. Toshiba SD-V295 Tunerless DVD VCR Combo Player.I have never been so disgusted with the setup of this machine. After a month, sometimes it will tape and sometimes not. MINE DIED ON DAY 120.
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