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(More customer reviews)I have a Toshiba HDD recorder and was looking for another one at ebay. After bidding on several of them and losing because the bids went too high I learned of the Magnavox. I originally considered the 513 because it was cheaper and its 320 GB was large enough for me. Then I found out that the 515 is not just a larger hard drive, but has an improved remote and saves your settings for an hour in case of a power failure, unlike the 60 seconds of the 513. Now that I have this one I like it better than my Toshiba. Toshiba has chapter mute which allows you to instantly skip commercials, that the Magnavox does not, but in almost every other way the Magnavox is more convenient to use. Besides that, I made too many mistakes watching football with the instant skip and jump too far ahead when there was no clear mute between commercial and program. If I am recording a program with the Magnavox and want to start watching from the beginning all I have to do is press the play button and it immediately starts playing from the beginning. With the Toshiba I had to press time slip and reverse search to get to the beginning. This is so much simpler and no more frustrating mistakes like sometimes happened with the Toshiba. If you wanted to stop a timer recording with the Toshiba you had to get up and press stop two times on the the base unit. That prevents you from accidentally stopping a recording. Magnavox does it by pressing stop twice on the remote, much simpler. I needed my reading glasses to find the stop button on the Toshiba. You can program two consecutive programs with just a 2 second gap; a 1 minute gap on the Toshiba. This also has 1.4 HDMI, which is important in connecting to my new 3D TV. It also links to my TV, so if I turn on the recorder it also turns on my TV and selects the correct input and audio source. It also has a digital tuner so I have connected my old antenna to it as well as my fiber optic TV. I can't fine tune the picture like I could with the Toshiba, but my TV lets me adjust the video settings for every input and saves the settings.
I am so glad I wasn't able to buy an old Toshiba at ebay. You would have to pay almost as much for a used Toshiba (and my first one failed after six years) as you do for a new Magnavox. The bonus for me is that the Magnavox suits my needs much better and the black unit looks better in my setup because everything else is black.
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