📀 Toshiba SD-V296 DVD Player/VCR Combo: Progressive Scan, Dolby Digital, Remote Control (Black) Review

I'm like a lot of people: I have a lot of old VHS tapes, some professionally recorded films, some stuff I recorded on camcorder or turned off TV. I had another Toshiba dual player (different model) that ate cassettes so I needed a new one. The internet was the only way. I had several used ones and this one didn't say it was used despite the high price ($538.49) so I ordered it. When he arrived I set it up and with great pleasure put in a VHS tape and watched him play - a few minutes. Then the…

I bought one of the original Toshiba DVDs (paid about $300) in the early 90's, great machine. It was still working when I replaced it about 10 years ago just because the old Toshiba couldn't play DVD-R. I bought this unit about 3-4 years ago for my mother in law who spent most of the 80's and early 90's recording classic TV movies. (She has more movies on tape than MGM's vault! :-) About two months ago she called me and complained that a CD was stuck in her car. When I checked, she was right…

Just recently I had to throw away my Panasonic combo recorder/player. It's been over 20 years. I used it to record EVERY day and night until I got satellite TV with DVR 2 years ago. I recently tried to watch an old Masterpiece Theater series on DVD and the Panasonic DVD player had trouble communicating with the TV after about an hour. That went on for 3 weeks or so. It didn't perform well, kept losing image, and I paused it for about an hour and then tried again. He played again, but not for…