Toshiba RD-XS52 DVD Player/Recorder with HDMI
Nice recorder, but one MAJOR flaw...
I've had the Toshiba RD-XS52 recorder for a couple of weeks now. In general it's a nice recorder, but I have the same problem with it that the first reviewer had.<br /><br />My cable company (Time Warner) uses a Pioneer Voyager digital cable box. The Toshiba supplied three different codes for controlling the Pioneer box but none of them worked. Toshiba customer support recommended trying the codes for Panasonic, General Instrument, and Scientific Atlanta cable boxes. One of the codes for Scientific Atlanta worked, and I was then able to change cable channels with the Toshiba remote. However, it doesn't work flawlessly. It often misses numbers that are entered.<br /><br />What's worse is that for timed recordings, it does not change to the correct channel. If you tell it to record channel 56, it will send a 5, then a 2 second pause, then a 6 to the cable box. The box receives this as a command to change to channel 5, which it does, then channel 6, so it ends up recording channel 6 in this case. In short, I can't use the Toshiba box to make a timed recording unless I leave the cable box on the same channel that I want recorded. After several calls to Toshiba customer support I was told the same thing as the first reviewer, that the Toshiba unit does not support my cable box. To me that's just plain unacceptable for a $500 dvd recorder, thus the 2 star rating.