We have owned our Toshiba XV48DT recorder now for approximately 9 months and we love it. In fact we would not be without it in our family. It cost £234 from Amazon and was delivered super quickly. It is easy and simple to use and the picture quality and sound are excellent in my opinion. It is a bit larger than we would have liked and looks bulkier than the one I have downstairs in the basement but this is a hard to beat model in my opinion as it has everything I need and want. It has a 160GB hard disk drive which allows us to record for up to an impressive 284 hours. We like the idea of having a hard disk drive and in my opinion this is far better than having ...  Read the complete review

We bought our Toshiba Hdd, Dvd and Video Cassette recorder before we had got Sky Plus as we wanted to be able to record things easier plus we didn't want to keep forking out for dvds to record on when we only watched the programme once. Our videos we used to record on were getting a bit past their sell by date too. We chose this model, the RD-XV48DTKB because a) we wanted a Toshiba one, and b) because it did everything we wanted it to do. The machine is a bit bigger than a normal dvd player what you buy these days. Ours is black in colour and very smart looking on the shelf under the tv. You can connect it to your tv ...  Read the complete review