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Sony RDR-HX900
Sony RDR-HX900 DVD Recorder with 160 GB Hard Disk Recorder |
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RDR-HX900 plus HV-670 combination will give everything you ever dream of
5 out of 5
Strengths: This is a great DVD recorder, easy to edit and program, really sharp DVD's, the best electronic equipment I ever had (I did not try a progressive mode, because I have a regular TV).
Weaknesses: TV Programming Guide does not work for digital cable boxes (but I don't really need it). There is a half of sec. delay between chapters, when you copy directly to DVDs (you will not have it if you turn off Auto Chapter). There are no digital audio input ports.
(...)So, now I can play all my video files from the HV-670 removable hard drive (or from the RDR-HX900) on my TV. I can also record TV programs on the RDR-HX900 hard drive and copy them on DVDs (and from these DVDs to the HV-670 hard drive). From the HV-670 hard drive I can copy files to/from my computer.
If I need to copy anything from the HV-670 hard drive to the RDR-HX900, I just play the file on the HV-670 and record it on the RDR-HX900 hard drive. I think this is a perfect combination of all options, you ever dream of.
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Steep learning curve - program guide confusing.....
2 out of 5
Unfortunately - in the 8 months I have had the HX-900 it has never worked
with my Motorola digi cable box - making the TV-Guide funtion useless. It works
well when manually programmed to record a specific program at a specific time on
a specific channel but requires your cable box to be left on at all times. Also - I find myself disconnecting the DVR and running my cable around it so I can see HD channels - which will not go through the DVR. The hard disk has many nice options for quality and has 160G of storage. The dubbing feature (to the built-in DVD recorder) is pretty easy - and tells you how much space you need, how big the program is, etc. The title keyboard is ridiculous. You have to scroll everywhich way to name the program
on your DVD (a function of the TV Guide info not getting through).
Disappointing considering the unit cost over $1000 - and I only hook it up when I need to record a show. Get a TiVo and a DVDR!!!
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This product has a fatal, fatal design flaw
1 out of 5
The Sony RDR HX900 is a truly great product, except for one problem. Unfortunately, that one problem is a fatal design flaw that renders the product unreliable.
The HX 900 downloads the TV Guide OnScreen (TVGOS) television listings that orignate from GemStar. Based on message board postings, owners all over the country experience the same thing: every once in a while, the unit loses all of the program listing information, the channel lineup, and -- worst of all -- your scheduled recordings. Now, anything that you have previously recorded is still there on the hard drive, but your entire upcoming schedule is gone. You leave for work in the morning and things look great; you think that you will record some shows while you are gone. When you come home, no program listings, no more recording schedule, and the shows that you thought would record, well, they did not record. It is so unreliable that I have a VCR sitting right there next to the DVR to serve as a backup -- the VCR records everything that the DVR does, because I know, without a doubt, that at some seemingly random point, the DVR will fail to do its job.
I have spent hours on the phone and on the internet researching this problem. You have to go through at least three people at Sony before you can even get anyone to admit that they have ever heard of the problem. Some of the customer service people are so clueless that they actually believe that the problem is with your outgoing connection to the television; obviously the problem comes in through the input, not the output.
People all over the country have the same problem. And, it is with all brands of DVRs. The only commonality is the TVGOS. Read more about this at:
http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/2/139837.html
I believe that GemStar periodically sends some sort of reset signal down the line. This signal is delivered to you via your PBS station. If your unit is not downloading at the moment that the reset comes across the line, you're ok; but if you are downloading, your DVR resets. Thus the apparent randomness of it all.
I finally got a technician at Sony to tell me that he would check to see if anyone was communicating with GemStar about this (GemStar's support number tells you that they communicate only with manufacturers, not consumers). Until the manufacturers and GemStar solve this reset problem, you should not buy any product which relies on TVGOS data.
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Don't buy if you have TV Guide on your cable
1 out of 5
This DVD recorder works well when everything is working correctly.
The problem is in the TV Guide area. The TV Guide signal that the recorder recieves from the cable company continues to give a reset signal maybe once a week or so and all of the timed recordings and all of the channel data gets wiped out totally reseting the recorder. This is not the recorder problem but a cable company problem. As I understand it, this is happening all over the country. The recorder has no way of turning off the TV Guide section. I would suggest not getting this recorder until the people who originate the TV Guide gets off their duff and fixes their end of things.
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Flawed!!!
1 out of 5
While this machine is fine in most respects it has some huge flaws. It never turns off completely, when switched off you can still hear something running inside. It is either the fan or the hard disk that never stops, if you get close enough to the machine you can hear the hum. I know that electric motors can run for years, but it will eventually burn out. Thats not to mention that an always running fan will draw a great deal of dust into the unit after a while.
Another flaw is that it doesn't have the ability to devide a program on the hard disk. It can only be done on the RW disks.
I also own a PIONEER DVR-510h and a PANASONIC DMR-e100h and think they are better than the SONY in every way except for the smaller size on their hard drives.
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