Toshiba RD-XS34 DVD Recorder with 160-GB Hard Drive
Difficult to use
A \\"TIVO\\" or ReplayTV, this isn't! I am using it with manual record only, but the manual recording interface is very clunky - really slow and frustrating navigation around the settings, and it often interprets a single key press as two presses. The menu system is labyrinthine - very inuntuitive. Also, we seem to miss recordings on the HDD that were clearly scheduled, after having cleared out plenty of space on the HDD beforehand. I can't find a way for it to tell me how much disk space is left either. Furthermore, I can't get it to only keep a certain number of a program, and throw away older recordings automatically, so tidying up the HDD storage is a regulary required chore, otherwise it doesn't record your new programs. <br /> <br />As a general observation, I wish user manuals had an index!