Customer Reviews
Good unit with all the tuners 
2008-08-09
I bought this from TigerDirect through Amazon with an amazing next day delivery with ground shipping. This unit has all the tuners built in - even a QAM tuner! It sets up easily out of the box and records very well. My only complaint is entering titles for recordings. It is cumbersome in that there is no storage for common titles so each title has to be entered from the numeric keypad. Overall a solid piece of equipment that I recommend.
good dvd recorder 
2008-07-15
Seems to be a good dvd recorder at a resonable price. I had some trouble setting it up at first, but by going over the manual several times I got it working right. The only thing is I wish you could watch one program and record another, I don't think you can with this one.I'm satisfied with the purchase. Paul
Awesome! 
2008-06-18
This was my second DVD Recorder and its leagues better than the Magnavox one I owned previously. I've had it for a month now and have had no issues at all. It records wonderfully and I've had zero issues with playback.
Great DVD Recorder at a great price 2008-05-27
Works like a charm. Even records show from my DVR which were from premium channels. Can't figure out how to get rid of the band on the top and bottom of the screen. Haven't used it enough. Would definitely recommend.
Upconverting 2008-05-25
This DVD is just perfect for my 1080p projector. Its digital TV tuner is amazing. I still have not had time to try out the recording capabilities. But so far I am completely satisfied with my purchase.
Great choice for a play anything recorder vs. price 2008-05-11
The D-R550 takes your existing DVDs to a new level, complementing today's best high definition TVs.
Toshiba D-R550 2008-04-18
So far so good! Product has been easy to use and has provided quality recordings. Takes time at end of disk to write/finalize. Just need to plan accordingly when doing programming.
It does what it does very well. 2008-04-05
I bought this DVD-R for two reasons. The first reason was to add a DVD Recorder to my entertainment system to be able to archive things that I wanted to keep longer from my DVR, and the second reason was to add DiVX playback functionality to my entertainment system.
This unit does both of these things very well.
I must admit that I attempted to burn an SD copy of a Blu-ray movie by utilizing the analog (composite) outputs on the Blu-ray to no avail. As soon as the Blu-ray became the active source feed the DVD recorder stopped recording. If you changed the input source to, say, the cable box the DVD recorder would automatically continue recording. My point is just that if you are hoping to copy an SD back-up of your Blu-ray discs it probably won't work due to a very high level of copy-protection.
One other thing that might be considered a "con" is that the menu system is a bit convoluted. Naming a disc after you've recorded it, but before you've finalized it can be a bit tricky since you only have a remote control to do it with.
Bottom line is that if I still needed to buy a DVD recorder and a DiVX player I would definitely buy this unit again. I paid $130 for mine and I probably wouldn't pay much more than that, though... certainly not above $150.
It's a good product that does a good job. I'm satisfied with my purchase.
Toshiba DR550 2008-03-31
Good: Upconverted DVDs look good. Four fast forward/back speeds.
Bad: A little slow to load DVDs. Menus are not intuitive.
d-r550 is trouble 
2008-03-28
the toshiba d-r550 ruined 6 discs in less than 30 days by making them unrecordable. it also made clunking sounds recording and playing back recorded discs. this problem also occurred in their analog dvd recorder.
