The "record through" converter box worked just fine but nothing got recorded this morning except for 30 minutes of dead air. In other words, the "record through" converter box was not "viewable" through my old VCR. I thought maybe the setup on page 22 of the Toshiba manual only worked on the Toshiba unit so I finally set that up and programmed my cartoons to record on the VCR side. I later figured out that in order for it to actually record, I had to press the "timer set" button on the remote. I'll see how that records in the morning. However, I had some problems when I tried to watch a commercial DVD on the unit later. Even after I took the DVD out after I watched the selection on it that I wanted, it kept reading that there was a DVD in the tray and it wouldn't let me switch back to VCR mode. When I called Toshiba support, they told me to unplug the unit and press the power button for 20 seconds while it was unplugged. When I plugged it back in, it was fine though I had to reset the clock and all my timer recordings. The person at Toshiba support told me that if I wanted to watch a DVD movie again in the future, I would need to take the tape out first. Otherwise the unit will lock up again. As for the old VCR, I figured that apparently the RF jacks could be used exclusively or in combination with the color coded audio/video jacks but apparently the audio/video jacks can't be used exclusively without the RF jacks which was what I was trying to do in order to duplicate the setup that would be used on the Toshiba unit.
Anyway, let this be a warning to anyone else who is using the Toshiba DVR620 unit. If you want to watch a DVD and you already have a tape in the unit, take the tape out first before inserting the DVD! And it probably goes the other way around too. If you already have a DVD in the unit and you want to watch a tape, take the DVD out first before inserting the tape! Otherwise the unit will lock up!
