Toshiba RD-XS34 DVD Recorder with 160-GB Hard Drive
This product is no good. TV Guide won't work and....
I have a cable box but TV guide never works even with an instruction from a technical service.  In addition, a pay-per-view was subscribed through TV guides scanning cable channels. <br /> <br />Here is exactly what happened. <br /> <br />This happens overnight while TV guide checks all the channels. (During that time, a dvd recorder is turned off but a cable is on.) After TV guide is set up, it checks every single channel on cable, froom 1 through 999. Channel 2 after 1, 3 after 2. Based on my contract with a cable company, there are many unscribed channels. When a dvd recorder checks those  <br />unsubscribed channels, it selects most recent subscribed channel until it reaches a next subscribed channel. <br /> <br />For instance, if channel 300 is subscribed but not 301 though 399, TV guide goes back to channel 300 until it reaches channel 400. So, TV guide selects channel 300 one hundred times.  <br /> <br />If channel 300 is a pay-per-view channel, a program starts. Because a dvd recorder clicks a pay-per-view channel again and again and again and again, a program starts. When I turned on just a TV but not a dvd player last night, a pay-per-view which I DID NOT subscribe was on. That channel was 853, playboy channel. Because TV guide has a problem, I repeated a set-up several times. Whenever a set-up is done, TV guides repeasts a channel check and an issue of a pay-per-view program happens.  <br /> <br />I complained to Toshiba but they don't ever addimit the product's flaw.  They won't ever reimburse me pay-per-view chages which I have never subscribed. <br /> <br />This product and a customer service is more than terrible.