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Review
of Toshiba SD-V392 DVD/VCR Combo
In the past I have always spent big
on DVD players, TVs and other home cinema equipment as watching movies etc is
one of my favourite things to do. In the past I have happily paid over
$1500
for a DVD player and home cinema kit (was back in England so with currency conversion
it was more like $3000) - this was about five years ago when the things were still
fairly new on the market.
However I recently married and moved to the
states - we are furnishing our first home from scratch so we have had to budget
accordingly. Having recently purchased a $40 DVD player for a friends birthday
and been impressed with it I was willing to risk buying my own first "low-price"
player. And I do not regret it.
The playback for both formats is awesome
and it records as well as VHS is going too, the sound quality is great (but that
also depends on what you are playing it back through - for us its a low end sansui
TV and its still ok. It looks sharp with nice lines and it doesnt feel cheap.
Its much smaller and lighter than the first wave of combo players too.
It
is quiet whilst operating, the buttons are all clear and easily accesible. The
player and remote have all the features you would expect and was all tuned in
when hooked up. It also has RGB hook-ups on both front and back which I like -
i can have the permanent cables from the back and out of sight and we can then
quickly attach games consoles etc to the front when needed.
Its a small
thing but I actually really like the fact that this player has a clock - its something
that most DVD players dont have and not many combo players have either.
For
$80 this really is a great little combo player - would have been a great little
DVD player on its own for that price too so the VCR is a bonus.
My one
complaint about the model though is that it is one of the few (in hindsight as
are most Toshibas) DVD players that cannot be "remote control hacked" to make
it multi-region. I have a stack of DVDs I bought from the UK and I just cant watch
them!
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