Advantages: Does exactly what it should. Quite smart-looking. Lots of different features. Disadvantages: Finicky to begin with. Instruction manual not crystal clear.
For a first time buyer of a DVD recorder, the RDR-HXD 790 is admittedly not the simplest machine to operate. To begin with is the initial connecting and setting up of the recorder. Although the instruction manual gives varying options of how to connect it to televisions, sound systems, cable receivers, etc, it was not terribly clear. I bought this DVD recorder to live in the same corner as a digital television, DVD player, and Sky + box, but the ... ...be received through the DVD recorder, which also has a digital input and hard drive recorder built in that allows you to pause live television. However, there is a way around it: For example, if you want to record two things on Sky +, record another on the DVD hard drive, and watch another through the television, you will need to plug the aerials into the digital sockets on the back of the DVD recorder, not the analogue as described in the manual. ...
tuckers87 22.07.2009
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