Toshiba DR-2 DVD Recorder/Player with Simultaneous Play and Record
Good but not quite there yet
I finally decided to try DVD recording and bought a D-KR2. As far as I can tell it is the same as the D-R2. Primarily my goal was to transfer all the 8mm videos of the Kids to DVD. When it worked the recorder did a nice job. Unfortunately about one in four Disks would error, recording would stop, and the disk was flagged as unusable. This is not the worst thing in the world when you have the source tape and can just restart, but when recording TV programs it becomes a bigger problem. If you have a few episodes recorded and it errors on the last, you loose everything on the disk. I was using a new stack of TDK 4X DVD-R's that I purchased at the same time as the recorder and am always very careful not to touch the surface of the disk. I could not see any disk flaws but D-KR2 somehow did. I recorded using the default SP mode. This enabled me to fit the entire two hour tape on a single disk. The quality (on my 10 year old TV) was very good. None of the sound sync problems I see in other recorder reviews.  [...]  Maybe this is a good as it gets with the current state of the Technology.