Advantages: Sony brand. Does what it says on the tin! Solid, reliable. Disadvantages: electronic programme guide does not work with my cable. Cables not supplied.
I am so glad I bought this machine in time for Christmas! I have it all set up to record all the good shows and I know it will perform flawlessly.
For those not familiar with this type of machine, let me go through some of the features:
1) Record from live TV (including Sky box or cable box) onto the sizeable hard disk. You can choose the quality of the recording and the higher the quality, the more disk space it takes up. At lowest quality, you ... ...machine, and this quality is quite sufficient for most purposes. 2) Dub from Video, DV, SVHS. Machine has handy sockets on the front panel (under a flip-down flap) to connect most A/V sources. Again the quality is selectable. 3) EDIT recorded video. To be honest this is fairly limited, but it is quite possible to DELETE a section of recorded video with accuracy. You can step frame by frame through the video if you wish to set the start and end points, ...
ReadingSteve 19.12.2006 (21.12.2006)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Sony RDR-HX 725
Advantages: More features than you can count Disadvantages: Price, No freeview
...to any of the other sony recorders in this range. I would say that the greater the size of the hard disk the slower the movement is between the recording menus (simply because there is more to load)
QUALITY
At the highest level the picture quality is not discernable from the real live shows. But even at levels up to two levels less than the maximum the drop in quality is bearly noticable. I have recorded onto DVD-RW's and DVD+RW's and the quality ... ...is an excellent product from Sony with a good mix of features and a huge capacity which will take six months to fill before you have to even think about deleting anything (unless you record every show twenty four hours of every day).
The editing features are superb and the recorder even helps with the editing with the chaper marks that are added automatically. At the end of the day a good buy eve at Sony's prices. ...
gizmoregis 02.09.2006
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Sony RDR-HX 725
Advantages: Easy to use. Always buy Sony. Disadvantages: Cannot think of any at the mo.
Love it !! So pleased we got it, only wish we'd got is sooner. Purchased on E-Buyer for £214. Great value. Love the pause TV. Easy set up (well, I can say that, I didn't have to put all the wires in), other half did it. Not too much moaning and groaning though. Go and buy yourself one now. Its great only having the one remote control. The guide plus is just fantastic. Recording is just so easy now, just a case of pressing a couple of buttons. Love ...
sumsb 07.02.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Sony RDR-HX 725
No Setup - Just put your batteries in and off you go. Our remote controls are generic ... more
replacements 100% guaranteed money back if not entirely satisfied. Put-Batteries-In-And-Go (This remote has been made for this Tv / Dvd / Freeview box etc, only,so no...
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