In Feb., millions of VCR's in homes with over-the-air reception will become useless. Am I wrong to think that the electronics industry is missing huge market for DVR's or DVD recorders (like this one) or even VCR's with digital tuners? I bought this unit to be able time shift and archive programs and, after a month, I am pretty happy with it. It has functioned flawlessly and offers a lot of options. Visually, the unit is non-intrusive. The instruction manual is one of the best I've seen in my 50+ years of buying electronics.

Here are some gripes, primarily regarding the remote:
- You can't de-select subsidiary channels (ie, 44-3) from the scanner list while leaving other sub-channels in place (ie, 44-1, 44-2);
- You have to go into a multi-step menu to accomplish some simple tasks, such as switching closed-captions on & off and setting the sleep timer;
- The commercial-skip button feels like it's in the wrong place, should be right of 'Play';
- the presence of an analog tuner is just going to be a nuisance;

This Toshiba dvd player has high quality with an excellent picture. I would recommend it as a buy item. Joe Ozeck-Pa.

Toshiba DR560 1080p Upconverting DVD Recorder with Built-in TunerGreat value for the money; reasonable price for a dvd recorder with a tuner. Good performance so far, and the menu is easy to navigate. However, any programming will be lost if there's a power outage although the time and date will resume. I recommend the rewritable CD's as it is easy to record over what was previously recorded. There are too many steps to take to accomplish basic functions of the unit; it could have been made simplier. However, overall this is an excellent product.

I purchased this recorder as I needed a 2nd one for my work. I already own one of these units and had no problems with it. In less than a month, I have copied over 60 VHS tapes to DVD with it and have not had one problem. The 4 hour mode still looks very good when using VHS tapes as a source. I am very pleased with both purchases.

After reading all the reviews, and the forum, and actually using it for a week, I'm still not sure if this is truly a HD tuner or not (I must feel about HD the way some people feel about computers, how can this be this complicated to figure out?). I replaced a Humax HFA100 with it, and I can say the picture does not look as good as I recall the Humax picture looking (the Humax died so I can't do an A/B comparison). It does look good, but not great like I recall the Humax with a good over the air (OTA) signal.

I can say a few things about it (comparing my experiences to some of the reviews I'm guessing Toshiba made some improvements as I cannot explain what others have seen):

* It gets Comcast DTV via QAM just fine (as someone else pointed out, do the extended scan, which is non-intuitive I admit).

* It seems to pick up OTA signals better than my Humax did (I was having to constantly adjust my antenna with the Humax).

* Set up is easy. It walks you through it. I don't understand any of the complaints I saw with this regard.

* The remote is average (as remote for most products are). Fortunately the software for my Harmony knows all about it, so I only used the remote for about 10 minutes until I got my Harmony programmed.

I haven't tried any of the DVD or DVDR functionality yet. I'm also don't have any HDMI yet, so can't speak for that.

Overall I'm happy with it just to get the QAM tuning and the free digital channels on my basic cable. I use it for my 8'x4' screen (front projector) - analog signals just look like garbage at that size, the DTV channels from the Toshiba are clean enough to look good. The price was also right.