Reviews for DVD Recorders

"Toshiba Black DVD Recorder - DR420/ Video Upconversion Up To 1080p Resolution Via HDMI/ One Touch Recording/ Multi-Format Recording And Playback/ REGZA-LINK (HDMI CEC)/ Front DV Input/ Digital Photo Viewer/ 3-D Virtual Surround Sound/ Black Finish...The DR420 is an excellent solution for archiving your favorite home movies to DVD...the DR420 also enhances your DVD collection with 1080p upconversion to near HD picture quality via HDMI...The DVD Recorder may not support some MP3/WMA/JPEG/DivX recordings due to differences in recording formats, disc structure, or condition of the disc (use of CD-RW for MP3 files is not recommended..." read more »

"I had some issues with the 560, but it worked okay and the picture quality was very good...Obviously, I cannot recommend this recorder...Overall this machine functions as stated in the product description..." read more »

"There are a few cons to owning this model, but all in all, you should still consider it...The Panasonic DMR-EZ28K DVD recorder is 2.4�ï...Overall, it is decent for the price..." read more »

"Outstanding recording quality, with a best-in-class LP mode; flexible recording speed; chasing playback with DVD-RAM discs; USB port and SDHC card slot;...No built-in tuner to receive analog or digital television broadcasts; cannot play back DivX files....The Panasonic DMR-EA18K may not include an ATSC tuner, but it does outdo your basic DVD recorder with some step-up features, such as a USB port and SDHC card slot for playing MP3s and viewing JPEG picture..." read more »

"The Sony RDR-GX257 is a low-cost, tunerless DVD-Video recorder that manages good recording quality at the two faster speeds and isn't too difficult to use...Normally, a recorder that performs its designed function well enough and with sufficient ease would, at least, deserve four stars...In all, I don't recommend this one..." read more »

"Please nice looking Copy Guard Function guards even when recording from Cable TV "Literally unusable" Copy Guard Function guards even when recording from Cable TV One button operation Cannot play standard DVD movies...maybe I just got a bad one but I am very disapointed It plays DVDs and CDs...I had an RCA prior to this Sony and it did nothing but give me grief..." read more »

"These features, together with VCR Plus+ time-shift recording, make the D-R1 a sort of poor man’s hard-disk recorder...The D-R1 was reasonably easy to set up, and its remote control is logically arranged for the most part, with the various functions differentiated by button shape and position...The recorded audio quality was good regardless of the selected bit rate, so you might also use the variable 1.4-Mbps setting for very long audio recordings...Playback of prerecorded DVD test patterns was generally excellent, with very good luminance frequency response and no artifacts (color smearing and broken diagonal edges) with the component output switched to progressive-scan format..." read more »