Toshiba DR430 DVD Recorder

The delivery was excellent. This DVD runs beautifully. We are enduring a major snow storm here and the quality of this delivery made it through such incredible amounts of difficulty and in sound delivery. I am very impressed.This is Rare for sellers to be honest about their products and to delivery despite the challenge of the weather. Seller made no excuses and arrived SOONER than was expected.This Seller was very kind to ship ALL of the accessories included for this DVD Recorder. This seller kept this DVD In beautiful condition. It looks BRAND NEW and RUNS as if we only just purchased this from one of the top stores.Would consider purchasing from this seller again with out a doubt. Very fast shipping; very well sealed and the seller was responsible to seal this product for the type of weather . Professional and pleasant.I hope that I am not speaking too soon; however, in comparison to the Toshiba DR430 to the 2009 Sears combo VHS/DVD, This Toshiba marks the spot head on--runs exquisitely. The price is fantastic and that is what it should be about.The Sears 2009 Magnavox DVD/VHS Combo (purchased brand new and for 30.00 more) is, unquestionably, top of the line serious junk of the dirt bag rip offs.It is better never to purchase combos. And upon purchasing the Magnavox combo, it was delivered approximately during the very same season, in 2009 and the box was as wet as a soggy kitty litter box exchanged by 10 mother cats and a opossum.The Toshiba DR430 was delivered with such care and doubled sealed with shipping tape and was wrapped as if it were a personal Christmas gift and did not have a flake of snow on the box.This Toshiba DR430 is top of the line for simplicity of playing and recording DVDs. Besides, who needs that Blue -Ray pain in the butt players when the Toshiba records ANY program with out restriction of recording programs as the combo players.This seller is tops and deserves the 5 star with A+ rating for salesmanship and the decency in honesty of its condition.For a used product, the seller came through better than the advertisement---and this is the treat for any consumer---Cheers to this Sellers. Keep in touch. A very sound player and recorder!Thank you very much! Very attractive!

Here's my story. Maybe you'll recognize yourself.When VCRs came along it seemed to good to be true. You could record a whole library of stuff for about 10 bucks a show and watch it whenever. I guess I made or bought hundreds of VCR tapes over the years.Then VCR became obsolete and DVD came in. About 10 or 15 years ago I thought, "I'll just get a DVD recorder and pick up where I left off with the new technology." Cost me a couple of hundred bucks investment. What a disappointment! The machine was unreliable. I couldn't tell whether it would work or not until I "finalized" a disk. If it didn't work, that was another disk ruined. This was when each disk cost a couple of dollars each. I don't know how many I broke up in frustration.Now the new thing is DVR, which you can get (for a fee) from your cable company. Sounds like a good idea, but it only allows you to record stuff from the cable, not to build a permanent library or convert your existing tape library.I wondered what was new in DVD recorders. It was with trepidation that I made a flying leap and bought this unit. A major factor was price, less than 100 dollars. And DVDs are down to about 50 cents each or less.I was very pleasantly surprised. I don't use the HDMI hookup, just component video/audio, the red, white and yellow RCA connectors. I'm not really a video snob and the quality is better that what I expect. It has an option to record in four modes, the best quality of which puts one hour of video on a DVD and the longest of which lets me record 7 hours on a disk. It was a chinch to hook up to my system. The menus are intuitive and work like they should. I'm thinking now that one day, I will convert some of those ancient tapes with big sentimental value to DVD.The timer gives me the flexibility to record multiple shows as if it were a DVR, but I don't have the monthly fee. Of course, it is a little less convenient than a cable DVR, because I have to flip over to a separate input on my TV to program it and there is no recurrent program to record a given show every week. Each episode of a program is a separate event, as far as this unit is concerned.Still and all, I'm delighted with this purchase so far. It has many features to recommend it, first among them is: it works!