Digital Trends

Recording to DVD offers huge advantages over tape, in picture and sound quality, durability, and convenience. Toshiba's D-R1 is like having a top-notch progressive-scan DVD player and a VCR-on-steroids in a single user-friendly component. Toshiba's Multi Drive design lets you choose the best disc for the job, whether it's rewriteable DVD-RW or DVD-RAM¿, or write-once DVD-R. Using a standard blank DVD-R disc, you can record anywhere from one hour (highest quality) to six hours (VHS quality). For "time-shifting" your favorite shows, you'll love the features and flexibility of DVD-RAM (RAM stands for "Random Access Memory"). It's the only recordable format that keeps precise track of recorded and blank sections on each disc, so you can always jump directly to any spot and begin playing or recording right away. You can arrange recorded programs for playback in any order you choose. The "Time Slip" feature lets you watch the beginning of a recorded program while the show is finishing recording!