Advantages: Upscales DVDs to 1080p, multi-format recording, lot of features, good value for money Disadvantages: No digital tuner or cables, set up complicated, picture distortion problem, read review for others
...got a new TV (the Sony Bravia KDL-20S2020, which I've also done a Ciao! review on) that is HD Ready and I quite wanted to take advantage of that, plus I saw one for £180 with an offer for 7 free HD DVDs which I thought was a generous offer at the time (see Toshibas website for info on this if your curious but thats rather off topic really).
After thinking about it for a few days over the Christmas period, I decided that I was being a bit hasty, ... ...and I eventually found this Sony model at what seemed to me to be a pretty incredible price. It won't suit everyone as it doesn't have a digital tuner, so you can't receive Freeview or any digital channels on it but for me it was perfect (as I don't need a digital tuner, since my PVR has Freeview and I can connect it straight up to record from that and I have a Virgin Media cable box which I can also record straight from too) being on sale at a well ...
IzzyS 04.01.2008 (06.01.2008)
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Advantages: Sony quality Disadvantages: More inputs on back, just has Scart with S-Video on front of unit
Very happy with the unit, no problems so far (had it 2 weeks). I've got mine recording from a PVR (Virgin Cable) - got it for £80 so don't need the digital tuner, recording quality ok over RGB Scart from the PVR.
I've go the unit outputting to the HD TV through component, upscaling seems to work quite well, overall I think original movie DVD playback is certainly better than my last player (nothing special, old Samsung). You need to use either the ... ...of the upscaling feature of the player.
I've just been using Verbatim 16 speed DVD-R and DVD-RW discs (not +) and had no compatibility issues so far using DVD's I've made on this unit in other DVD players. I've had issues using the DVD+ discs in the past with compatibility. To clarify on the previous review, the specs of the unit claim it will burn to all + and - DVD's including R and RW.
Just to clarify on the spec:
REAR:
HDMI out (with 1080p ...
ninjatech 08.01.2008 (07.01.2008)
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