Toshiba DR4 DVD Recorder "play shows dvr record stop" Questions

...dvr. I had it set and I THINK it was recording. It recorded the movie and was recording advertisement also. I canceled the recording by pressing stop so it wouldn't tape the advertisements after this ...

...shows from tv) Then suddenly It started refusing disks and stops in the midle of formatting. someone asked me to change the type of blank dvd. I spent a lot of money buying different blank dvd's and ...

...DVR so I got the movie going and hit record but nothing happened. What am I doing Wrong? This recorder has a top box controll feature, on set up you have a few DirecTV codes that I have tried all 15 ...

...DVR -> component video plugs -> TV set. 2. If a DTV converter box *is* needed, can anyone recommend a good model (or if not a specific model, exactly what I should look for in the box)? Sheesh, this ...

...PLAY button 5) hold the buttons down until TV screen shows "Initializing" message, release buttons, let DVD player go thru it's reset cycle and shut down 6) turn DVD player on and watch your DVD ...

play at all. For photos, it is ok. For videocorder, it does not record nor does it show the DVR station. Have updated it to latest firmware but still the same problem. Please help ASAP. Thanks This is

...play could be used for discrete on): - Discrete off: 900A 006D 0000 0001 45B5 936C - Edit... Discrete on? 900A 006D 0000 0001 45B5 FE01 But I also found some interesting maintenance codes in the Cxxx ...

...play DVD's but I am sure it will stop doing that pretty soon also. This problem of failing to read discs is down o the laser itself if you have cleaned the lens, the laser itself is costly around £50 ...