Bought this DVD recorder to copy VHS tapes. I found this recorder for under $100 decided to put my cash down to see how it works.

May I say I was VERY surprised.

This player came with a HDMI cable and makes the purchase even better. You can set the player to what definition you want. 480p, 720p, 1080i, or 1080p. The trick is you also have to turn on the progressive scan or you won't get a picture. It took a bit of work, but I figured it out.

The menus are large and well set up so you can find everything you need to create your own personalized DVD's.

Plenty of Inputs are available. HDMI, component, and Video. The HDMI cable eliminates 5 cables hookups (component) into just one and the picture and sound is better.

The front of the recorder has a easy plug in for your camcorder, VCR, or other device you want to record from.

The remote is well laid out and easy to use. All the controls were at locations you could... Read more

I got this for the purpose of digitizing my old VHS Home Videos at the same time I'm looking for something to improve my DVD viewing thru upconvert. I have a 6-yr old Sony projection HDTV with DVI and component video input @720p/1080i. I bought an HDMI-to-DVI cable since this unit will upconvert only at 480p when used with component video cable. But then upon my initial setup I was disappointed with the contrast/color running at 720p/1080i that my old DVD player displays even better. I found that with the converter cable, it only renders in RGB and not as PyPbPr signals. As I dig more time on discovering the setup options, I have found that the factory defaults have the progressive scanning turned off and the HDMI RGB is not in enhanced color mode. Once I had corrected this, I got an excellent viewing of my sci-fi movies. I did set to 720p which gives better picture/clarity than the interlaced 1080i.

After irreconcilable problems with my Samsung DVD VR375 DVD-Video dubber, a unit I don't recommend, I gave up on it and decided to take a different approach to converting my old videos to DVD: buy a DVD recorder and record off of one of my VCR players. After studying customer reviews for "inexpensive" DVD recorders, I decided to buy the Toshiba DKR40KU.

I have only used it to convert VHS to DVD but I want to report that it does an excellent job of doing that, and it is extremely easy to use in this context. If you don't want to fool with creating specific chapters, it is automatically set up to allow you to use the remote, while playing, to skip from one part to the next, at designated intervals (5 min., 10 min., or etc.). (It seems to be pre-set for 10 min., but you can use "setup" to select a different interval if you wish - see p.34 of English manual, "Setting for Auto Chapter".) You don't need to give the DVD a title, if you want to keep things simple.

It... Read more