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Plentiful recording and editing tools cover the operational cracks
With hard-disk and DVD recording now commonplace and hi-def recorders just around the corner, VHS may seem like an antiquated concept. But just as vinyl lives on despite the popularity of MP3 downloading, the millions of video tapes still being hoarded has granted VCRs a stay of execution.
Toshiba's recent ad campaign revived its famous 'ello Tosh catch-phrase from the 1980s and there's another throwback to that era in its new DVD recorder - there's a video cassette deck inside too
The latest HDD/DVD combi from Toshiba has a greater hard-disk capacity (250GB) than its rival and an additional digital tuner. It’s some £70 dearer than its Philips counterpart, but does it justify the extra expense?
With its £350 pricetag, the RD-85DT is the UK's cheapest DVD recorder to bring us the benefi ts of both hard drive (a generous 160GB in this case) and digital-terrestrial TV (DTT) tuner.