Toshiba RS-TX20 DVD Recorder with 120 GB TiVo Series2 Digital Video Recorder
Fails in Practice
You have to love the concept. A single device that let's you record your favorite programs and save them to DVD for your archives, view digital photos, listen to your MP3 disks, etc. PLUS, free Tivo Basic to boot.<br /><br />Other shoe: the picture quality on my unit and a great many others (as your own internet search will show) is mediocre to just plain bad. My picture is so dark at times that, when I'm watching a horror movie, I can only tell that something bad is happening when I hear the screaming. Forget Batman movies--it's like ill-conceived experimental theater. When I switch TV input to direct cable, it's like turning on the lights.<br /><br />Another problem that I still haven't solved is that the IR Blaster setup just will not change channels on my cable box, so I have to set the cable box's internal timers to change to the correct channel at the correct time, as well.<br /><br />Really love the fact that you can network it (though an ethernet port would have been great), absolutely NO complaints about anything related to the DVD aspects of it, and Tivo, as a concept, rocks (though Tivo Basic really puts the emphasis on \\"basic\\"). But Toshiba has no excuse charging as much as they have for this unit, given the really poor picture quality.<br /><br />By the way, Toshiba tech support is available Monday through Friday, 7am to 4pm Pacific. Not very convenient hours to spend in front of your Tivo with a phone in your hand if you actually have a job or anything.