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Toshiba RD88DT

59 reviews

Apr, 2024

Positive
usability (47)
image quality (19)
design (4)
price (4)
size (1)

Negative
reliability (5)

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 59 reviews of Toshiba RD88DT. The average rating for this product is 3.8/5, compared to an average rating of 3.7/5 for other Digital Video Recorders (DVR) for all reviews. Reviewers are impressed by the size and design. The price and image quality are also appreciated. There are some less positive views about the reliability.

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We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Digital Video Recorders (DVR) the Toshiba RD88DT is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 76/100 = Good quality.

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Amazon.co.uk review summary for Toshiba RD88DT

alaTest has collected and analyzed 51 user reviews of Toshiba RD88DT from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 3.8/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.9/5 for other Digital Video Recorders (DVR) on Amazon.co.uk. Reviewers really like the size and design. The price and image quality are also mentioned favorably, but there are some negative views about the reliability.

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76% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Apr, 2024

Expert review by : Martin Pipe (techradar.com)

Toshiba RD88DT review

With a tiny 160GB HDD, this Toshiba recorder will have to impress elsewhere

Editing/dubbing ; Superb XP and SP recording

No RGB Scart input ; Lacklustre 'economy' modes ; Red dot issues

A DVD recorder that will divide opinion, and sticks out more for its omissions than anything else

Jan, 2009

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Expert review by : Martin Pipe (avreview.co.uk)

Toshiba RD88DT

As with the Sony RDR-890HX, the RD98DT will play (and dub from) DVD-RAMs, but you can't record to them - in addition, dual-layer DVDs aren't catered for either. But in other respects, though, it's multi-format. The five recording modes offered will...

Good DVD playback and XP/SP recording, excellent editing

No RGB Scart input, DTT 'red-dot' recorded

Sep, 2008

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Consumer review (play.com)

Adequate

I own this recorder. HDD recording quality can be excellent. Digital tuner does not cope too well with poor signal quality. My LG TV tuner works fine but the toshiba tuner has problems with some channels. Worst problem is that tv channels cannot be...

Mar, 2009

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Excellent

The recording quality of the HDD is outstanding, and the upscaling of DVD' is awesome. I had been looking at buying an HDD recorder for sometime,without finding what I was looking for. I finally took the plunge about 6 weeks ago and I have nothing but...

Nov, 2008

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