A feature packed DVD player and recorder, the Toshiba DR19DT is a lower end version of the Toshiba RD99DT with a much lower price tag. Sacrificing a hard disk drive for the reduced price, this Toshiba DVD player is a great choice for persons who do not have a need for a higher memory capacity brought by a hard disk, or for those who already own a personal video recorder.
Some of the most notable features of the Toshiba DR19DT that makes it appealing are its Alternate Instance, Series Link, and Split Recording features. There is also a single tuner for Freeview and a remarkable 8 day Electronic Program Guide or EPG.
Another aspect that should be noted on a DVD recorder like the Toshiba DR19DT is the disc formats it supports. Unfortunately, the Toshiba DR19DT is not able to support dual layer formats, so this means you can only record a maximum of 8 hours of video. You can use DVD-RW, DVD+RW, as well as write once DVD-R and DVD+R. If your planning to record many videos, it would be best to have a lot of discs nearby as you may soon discover they consume space fast especially with high definition videos.
Being a lower level model of the RD99DT, for those of you who have seen it, the Toshiba DR19DT shares the same design and styling. It looks stylish enough with its sleek and slim facade with a silver stripe running across the middle of the black finish, the Toshiba DR19DT also features a rather small LED display in the upper half of the front panel.
The facia panel drops down to reveal some control keys and there are inputs for DV, S Video, composite and analogue stereo. Another victim in the scaling down of the Toshiba DR19DT is the omission of a USB port, which would have been nice if you wanted to play JPEG files, MP3, and DivX movies without having to burn them to a CD or DVD.
Moving on to the operating system of the Toshiba DR19DT, you will definitely find it very user friendly. It has a very simple main setup menu and easily followed. Most of these features are controlled from the remote control which is also very simple to use and remarkably well designed. The recording feature can also be turned on and programmed using the remote control and because there isn