Toshiba SD-V295 Tunerless DVD VCR Combo Player

This is exactly what we needed and it works just the way that I would expect. We have had it for several weeks now and we watch movies and shows with it daily. It hasn't given us a moment of trouble and let's face it; vcr's are not as easy to find as they use to be.

I don't see any other product like this being a better deal than this.

I purchased mine today at Best Buy, and YES it does not have a tuner built into the unit. The Best Buy price sticker indicates this as well as the outside of the unit does. It works great once one reads the manual which is actually very helpful, not to mention in perfect English also.

this dvd/vcr it's alright i guess, with it not having a cable hook up in the back the only way you can record any tv programs is to use your auxiliary hook up on your tv but it does play real good but you have to make sure that you have that timer button on or you will not get anything you can programs how many programs you want but if you don't hit that timer button you will not get anything but like any other new thing you buy you have to get use to it right ? but all around once you get use to it you'll love it i do really like it alot now

Picked this up from BestBuy last night - should have thought twice as there was one on the shelf that had been returned already. It does not come with a tuner so without a cable or satellite box you're screwed.

My television lacks RCA jacks so I have an RCA/Coax converter. So far so good but the annoying part that I can't figure out is that I have to move the cables from VCR OUT to VCR IN when I want to record something, then back to VCR OUT when I want to watch!

The DVD part worked fine, no real problem there, picture quality looks good and the VCR recording quality looks great. The remote is a joke. You have to press combination keys to get things to work and it was very confusing to learn. It also hates to leave DVD mode. You cannot turn off the DVD side and only focus on the VCR ergo you'll be programming a timer or something and suddenly you're in DVD mode!

The other model at BestBuy was the Sony SLV-D380P. As far as I can tell it's just as bad but with an extra $10 Sony markup!

Its not clear, until you recived this unit, that it reqruies an external tuner to record from tv. This should be clearly noted in the ads for this product.