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5 Reviews for Sony RDR-HXD710 DVD Recorder with 160GB Hard Drive and FREEVIEW
Lasted just beyond the warranty - 16 Jul 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Worked great for 13 months but now freezes regularly and is very unreliable. Have lost a lot of recordings. Formatted the HD but no change. Very disappointed.
18 months and kapput! - 12 Jul 2007
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Absolutely fine for the first 18 months and then it wouldn't finish a recording because it couldn't write the finish to the hard disk. We'd come down in the morning and find that the red timer light was on and it was making a noise. Discovered it was trying to write to the disk to finish the recording, and must have been doing that for most of the night. Completely frozen. Only thing we could do was switch off at the mains and lose what we thought we'd recorded. Didn't matter whether we tried recording from EPG or enterng the actual times. Only suggestion from Sony was to reformat the hard disk. Tried that, but it made no difference. They said if that didn't work we would need to take it to a service engineer. Cost of that £35 just to report what was wrong, then parts and labour for the actual repair after that. Decided it wasn't worth it. We now have a very expensive Freeview box and DVD player, and a new Panasonic DVD recorder with HD and Freeview for just over half the cost of the Sony. Hope that's better. Just in case we've taken out 3 year's warranty, which we wouldn't normally do, but after the experience with the Sony ..... Used to think Sony was the best, but not now.
Was great while it lasted! - 20 May 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful.
I bought mine in Sept 2005 by oct 2006 it started to freeze up ( lock up!) then it decided to display the insufficient memory message when i tried to put in timer recordings I managed with No Help from Sony sort that by deleting ALL my exsisting timers and starting again and Now with the machine 1year 6 months old the system is Kapputt and will not play/ finalise allow any sort of dvd into the system it looks as if the dvd drive is knackered and of course all Sony say is take it to a service centre at your own cost!!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr iam so disapointed with this machine esp now looking round "certain" forums to find the amount of problems this and its sister models have i dont think i will buy Sony again!not when at the time i paid near enough 500 Ukpounds for something i thought would last a good few years ( 5+)
Well thought out, typical Sony. - 11 Jan 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful.
We got this at the same time as a Sony Bravia LCD tv. It really is a well thought out device. I have never used a DVD recorder before, never mind a HD recorder, but I found operating it a complete doddle. The software really is user friendly... even my wife, who is a complete technophobe picked it up in a very short time. Setting the timer by EPG is really really easy, but it has a habit of cutting off the start or end of some programmes, and as far as I can see, there is no facility to extend the recording by a minute or two (come on Sony, it can't be that hard surely).
At best quality recording, picture and sound are more or less indistinguishable from broadcast quality. I understand you can fit a lot more on the hard drive if you accept a compressed format, but we haven't tried it yet. It is fairly straightforward transferring a programme to DVD using the 'dubbing' facility. It will transfer an hour programme in a few minutes. I have yet to find a freeview tuner that never freezes...this one has frozen probably six times in nine months. You have to disconnect the machine from the mains and then plug it back in to cure this. It can be a worry that something on the hard drive gets corrupted by this but it hasn't happened yet, as far as I can tell.
The hard disk holds about fifty programmes at high quality. I understand you can set the box to record over the oldest recordings when full.
All in all a really useful, user-friendly machine.
Good product, but not multi region - 06 Dec 2006
20 out of 21 found this review helpful.
I bought this in April, had to wait a long time for delivery. Works well. Transferred 25 Svhs camcorder tapes very well - quality is so much better than trying to do via PC, and much faster and easier.
I believe Amazon are *wrong* to describe this as multi region. Mine plays region 1 dvds badly: grainy black & white. Sony say none of their machines are multi region. Some vendors will offer them upgraded and warranty service will only be from them. A uk website offers a 3rd party remote which will upgrade to multi region but this is not recommended by Sony - may invalidate warranty.
The system degrades over time - if left on for say two weeks it loses functions like will not update Freeview EPG.
Also, mine developed a fault where it will not dub multiple titles to dvd - I have to do them one at a time.
There are few if any tips for this product out on the web. Here are some from Sony customer service.
1. Set machine to BBC1 and leave in standby for 24 hours. This is sometimes necessary to ensure the software upgrade is downloaded.
2. Recordings can be programmed and machine will kick in to record them from standby mode.
3. As at Dec 2006, Sony will shortly be making software upgrades available to improve picture quality and various others things (but not to enable multi-region).