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Other times, it displays just snow. The thing did well for a while. I thought it was a bad dvd but the disk works fine on other players. It has no tuner, but you can run cables from other places. The dvd player often stops in the middle of the movie and no way can I restart it. Toshiba had problems with this a while back, but it is still junk. This will be my last Toshiba product.
I'd say about 30 seconds, and that is unacceptable.2. I haven't even used the record function, and probably never will. With the "auto play all the time" behavior, I constantly have to make sure the volume is down, stop it, advance it, turn the volume back up. The picture quality is good.
There is no pause button, and the FF/RWD CD controls advance through the current song, but there is no separate "skip" button. But.1. When you insert a CD or DVD, it takes the drive a long time to figure out which it is and start to play it. I bought this to have a means to play CDs, DVDs and VCR tapes in one compact box. How about just "On/Off".In short, there are too many hidden/automatic/nonavailable/weirdly labeled things about this that make it awkward to use. I want it to just load and be "ready", and let me possibly skip to the track I want.
AWKWARD.3. The front panel controls are very limited.
I will probably never buy a combo drive in the future if I can help it, even if I have to hunt down generations-old devices on eBay to get a separate CD player, separate DVD player, and separate VCR. I just wanted a VCR drive in there to play any "legacy" tapes I still have lying around.It works.
The remote control has all these functions, but I loathe devices that depend on the remote control as the only source of certain important functions. Once it recognizes a CD, it automatically starts to play it.
Often, I don't want it to do that. That has been the trend to cut costs on these cheap units, because front panel controls are expensive compared to putting them on a remote.I also don't like the "standby" type of power switch.
They work much better that way and have controls that humans intuitively understand.
The display counter goes to 00:01 on both the DVD and VHS sides, and that's it, nada. DO NOT buy this machine. Toshiba only has a 90 day warranty, and since we don't watch many movies, I'm SOL. I purchased mine at Best Buy in late July, watched exactly one DVD on it, and now it won't play anything, anywhere, anytime. I tried resetting it, hooking it to 3 different TV's, hooking it through different cables, and nothing. Doubt if Best Buy will do anything either. Total garbage
Since the warantee is for 90 days only, I am out the full purchase price. Purchased from Amazon thru third party 6ave.com. After less than 4 months of use, it "ate" one of my VCR tapes (could not eject it). 6th Avenue does not consider unusual circumstances - only the miniscule manafacturer warantee. Do not buy the SD-V295KU DVD Video Player & Video Cassette Recorder.
Toshiba SD-V295 Tunerless DVD VCR Combo Player.I have never been so disgusted with the setup of this machine. I do not recommend this product.90 DAY WARRANTY. After a month, sometimes it will tape and sometimes not. All the wires are hooked properly, but yet it seems to have a mind of its own. MINE DIED ON DAY 120. CHANGE THAT TO ZERO STARS.
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