Toshiba DR-2 DVD Recorder/Player with Simultaneous Play and Record
Solid product with some really bad quirks
Three reasons not to buy this device: <br />1) It's very slow.  Want to eject a disk? Hit eject and find something else to do for 3 minutes.  Reinsert a disk?  Wait for it to load for 3-10 minutes (these are not exaggerations).  <br />2) Unreliable.  Some people say the UI is bad.  I found it pretty easy to use.  However, I set it to record about 40 shows.  3 of them didn't work.  It wasn't that I did something wrong, it just didn't go.  Right time, right channel, internal clock was correct, set to \\"execute\\" but it didn't even turn on. <br />3)Waste a lot of disks.  About 1/5 of what I recorded eventually failed for one reason or another.  In one case, I had 6- 1/2 hour shows on a disk.  When recording the 7th, a very small finger print ruined the burn and consequently the disk.  Countless other times, it simply said the disk was dirty or ruined.  <br /> <br />I went back to my VCR.  It never fails (unless I make the mistake) and it works quickly and efficiently.  Why buy new technology that's worse than the old stuff?