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 Can a black box change your life? September 25, 2007
Nigel Tant (Exmouth, UK)
68 out of 68 found this review helpful
I bought this after a bad experience with a Sony 860 (which went back), so I approached this machine with some trepidation. The previous machine had great facilities, but just didn't work very well (poor sound, switched itself on and off etc!). Happily, this is a wonderful piece of kit and brilliant value for the money. Recordings to the HDD drive are superb (especially in HQ), and the EPG and series link work well. Setting programmes to record is so easy and dubbing to DVD is also simple and fast. Reviewing what has been recorded is a breeze; the recording list has thumbnails which play excerpts to remind you what the programme contains, as well as the programme title, time it was recorded, channel (BBC1..) etc.! Being able to start watching a recording before it has finished and the ease and fuss-free operation actually changes the way you watch TV. Also, it is a great DVD player and the upscaling via the HDMI link makes standard DVDs look near 'HD' quality. What's not to like?
Fantastic Machine July 25, 2007
P. Reynolds (Norfolk, UK)
75 out of 76 found this review helpful
I've had this machine for a month now, as a replacement for an RDRHXD860S that broke down after 2 months.
This machine seems to be far superior to the previous model and is far more intuitive to use. In operation it runs almost silently and performs at a much high speed (the 860 had a noisy fan and always had a slight delay before responding to each command).
All recording has been performed faultlessly and the ability to jump advert breaks at the touch of a single button is great. The 250GB hard disk is very rapid in it's operation and provides huge storage potential.
All in all a true 5 star machine and highly recommended.
Sony RDRHXD970/870/770 or Panasonic EX77 ???? or a Humax January 29, 2008
G. Harrison (cornwall)
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
I spent ages researching all this, a good 2 months. I was going to buy the sony 970 but at the last minute changed my mind and got the Pana EX77, this was a mistake! don't get me wrong the Panasonic is a good machine but the Sony is so much better, BUY THE SONY....I know as I have used both machines, the panasonic from Amazon is a european model and is fitted with the wrong EPG board for uk use(I was told this by panasonic) so the electronic Program guide will never work correctly, this machine was sent back to Amazon & they refunded me 'Thank you' Amazon
In comparision the Sony 'Now and next' feature for freeview is plain and simple the panasonic was very poor bad to navigate and quite honestly usless (even if it had been a uk machine).
The Sony remote is good and works well took a bit longer to learn than the Pana but oh! the buttons on the Pana were so close together I found it awkwared to use.
The Pana when writing DVDs does not create a VOB file on the disk instead its a VOR file if you then want to rip this back to an mpeg on a PC you can't, with the sony there are 2 modes of recording and you can record as a standard DVD VOB files.
Pause live TV only the sony has this.
The sony can be used with a cable or sat reciever
Panosnic very slow to boot up could be as long as 45 seconds, sony very quick.
ALL hard disk DVD writers freeview recorders allow only 1 channel to be recorded, you cannot watch another channel whilst recording, so I use my old freeview box for watching whilst recording on the Sony.
These sony recorders are basically a Pioneer machine.
Be aware that if you buy old stock of the sony you will need to update the firmware to 1.65 to resolve timer problems.
Humax PVR Ideally it would be great if the Humax had a DVD recorder built in to it I would have brought this instead, but the main down side to the ALL PVR's is you can't record from external sources e.g.Video recorder, the sony & Pana are so easy to copy your video down to Hard drive then to DVD, the plus side to the Humax is you can recod 2 chanells whilst watching a prerecorded file of the hard drive, you can also link to a PC and copy the Mpegs to your hard drive on the PC, at the moment there is'nt 1 machine that will do what the Sony and the Humax will do.
Top buy January 4, 2008
J. Elliott (UK)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Excellent piece of kit which was simple to set up and is easy to use (especially if you're used to Sony products). Do take your time reading the manual before plugging in as there are a lot of permutations on set up depending what other kit you're attaching.
Well worth getting an HDMI cable for connecting it up - particularly if you're using a Sony Bravia with this.
Sony RDRHXD970 - 250GB Hard Drive DVD Recorder January 23, 2008
Ms. G. Fraser (UK)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
If you are considering buying a DVD recorder with HDD, this is without any shadow of doubt the one to go for....
Ease of use is excellent - even my wife can operate it!!
Also you can record straight off of your SKY etc onto the hard drive, which in turn can be recorded to disk
In terms of picture quality - I watch DVD's through the HDMI cable - the picture quality is absolutely amazing...
It is worth the money!! This is the most sought after DVD recorder in the country at the moment.
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