I thought this was a great concept Toshiba VCR & DVD player and recorder, of course like all technical products they have come out with sometg bigger and better that out does it.  But besides that fact, now my VCR eats my tapes so i can only use the DVD.  Not so great especially considering that was the reason i bought the duo to begin with.  But it wasn't expensive but i think we only had it for like 6 months before this happened.