Toshiba RD-XS34 DVD Recorder with 160-GB Hard Drive
Answer to a couple of "problems"
This is in response to the problems S. Rys and Dan J. Grams said they were having. (Unfortunately, I don't have their e-mails to answer them directly. Perhaps the good people at Amazon can forward these answers to them.)  S. Rys said the it was slow to change channels.  It does take a few seconds if you just punch in the channel and wait, but if you punch in the channel and press the \\"Enter\\" button, it changes immediately.  Now for the much more difficult one.  This one wasn't in the instruction manual, I found this quite by accident.  Dan J. Grams said he didn't like the fact that you couldn't program a show manually.  Well, I found out how to do it.  While you have the TV Guide page on, press the \\"Menu\\" button on the remote.  The \\"Episode Options\\" window will appear on the left side of your screen.  Move up to and select \\"Go To Service Bar.\\"  You should be at the top of your screen now.  Move over to the right until \\"Schedule\\" is highlighted and press the \\"Menu\\" button on the remote again.  The \\"Schedule Options\\" window appears on the left side of your screen.  Move down until \\"New Manual Recording\\" is highlighted and press the \\"Enter\\" button.  You're there, enter the recording info and enjoy!  The only shortfall about doing it this way is it won't name the recording you made the way it does when you use the TV Guide.