Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45567 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: RDRHXD1095B.CEK
• Released on: 2008-04-30

Features

• 500GB capacity for a max recording of 1420 hours onto the Hard Disk Drive
• Electronic Programme Guide (8 Day on digital)
• Integrated Digital and Analogue Tuner
• HDMI output with 1080p upscaling
• USB Port for Digital Camera

Manufacturer's Description

The New Hard Disk Drive DVD Recorder Range from Sony

Watch what you want, whenever you want.

RDRHXD890 (available in black or silver) 160GB Hard Disk Drive/DVD Recorder - 160GB capacity for a maximum recording of up to 455hours (23hours in HQ+ recording mode) onto the Hard Disk Drive.

RDRHXD995 (available in black) 250GB Hard Disk Drive/DVD Recorder with Common Interface Slot (see specification details) - 250GB capacity for a maximum recording of up to 710hours (36hours in HQ+ recording mode) onto the Hard Disk Drive.

RDRHXD1095 (available in black) 500GB Hard Disk Drive/DVD Recorder with Common Interface Slot (see specification details) - 500GB capacity for a maximum recording of up to 1420hours (73hours in HQ+ recording mode) onto the Hard Disk Drive.

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HDD and DVD Technology in one box

Recording to Hard Disk Drive (HDD) allows you to store up to 1420 hours of TV* without using blank discs, ensuring that you can go away on holiday without worrying about running out of space for all of your favourite programmes.

And even when you are at home, you can playback your stored programmes while new ones are being recorded, giving you all the flexibility you need.

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Integrated Digital Tuner / Freeview +

Enjoy over 40 of the latest free digital TV and radio channels with no subscription fee and no need for a separate Freeview box. And because your HDD DVD recorder is Freeview accredited, it's been independently certified as one of the best on the market. Meaning you can trust it to record your favourite shows, and pause live TV at the touch of a button.

With Freeview and a built-in digital tuner, your HDD DVD recorder is fully prepared for the digital switchover. Between now and 2012, all of the UK's television broadcasts will change to digital and the old analogue system will be switched off. But with a HDD DVD recorder, you'll be totally ready to watch and record TV in the new digital world.

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Electronic Programme Guide

Offering simple, 3-step on-screen timer programming and TV Guide.

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BRAVIA Sync

Your HDD DVD recorder is designed to work seamlessly with all of your other Sony Home Cinema products, giving you control of your whole home theatre system, including your TV, surround sound and HDD DVD recorder using just one remote control.

With the touch of a button, you can turn the entire system on, change your sound settings or shut it down. Which means you're left to concentrate on what you want to watch next.

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HDMI Output

1080p upscaling to maximise picture quality even on large screen.

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2x USB ports

For connecting a PictBridge compatible printer, digital camera or other USB storage.

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x-Pict Story

An enhanced photo slide show feature which gives you more transition effects and the possibility to frame your photos with the appropriate environment and burn them later onto a DVD for sharing.

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HDD Handycam® Connection

Record your memories from your Standard Definition (SD) Camcorder directly on to your Hard Drive.

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Digital Photo Album

View, edit and store digital still images or burn them to a DVD for sharing.

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Digital Music Jukebox

Store and enjoy up to 999 of your favourite songs.

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Series Link

With the touch of a button your recorder will automatically record all episodes of your favourite series and you will not miss anything during the season.

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Common Interface Slot

Allows the user to subscribe to Setanta Sports without the need for an extra box (only available on the RDRHXD995 and RDRHXD1095).

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‘Sony’, ‘like.no.other’, ‘BRAVIA’, ‘Handycam’ and their logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Corporation. *This is the maximum storage capacity on the RDR- HXD1095.

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Customer Reviews

Sony RDR-HXD1095 500 Gb review
I bought this HD recorder about a month ago and think its an amazing piece of kit. I have over 100 programmes on the machine at the minute with about 130 Gb worth of space left on it in SP mode and certainly haven't had any problems with it freezing or telling me to delete anything like the other review. I think that they've got a faulty hard drive as I couldn't find any other review with the same problem and I always do a bit of research on anything electrical before buying.

The features on the machine are great and basically does everything apart from make a cup of tea. Its very quick for editing programmes (I like to cut out adverts after recording anything and it chapter marks them for you). Some channels are better than others though, but that's nothing to do with the machine - its the way its broadcast and you can perform all these tasks even while its recording. Fantastic. I'm also very impressed with the picture quality although I don't record anything lower than in SP, but because of the size of the hard drive, I don't need to worry about running out of space.

Also very impressed with Amazon's delivery service. I ordered it first thing Monday morning on standard delivery and it was with me by the Thursday. I would definitely recommend this machine to anyone considering buying it.

Pile of Junk - AVOID
I purchased this recorder a month ago. I only chose it because of its ability to remove commercials from recordings.

At first everything worked fine. But, I have now discovered that once you get to around 40 titles recorded onto the hard disk, the recorder becomes almost useless. It freezes, crashes all the time. Extremely slow to respond. You cannot do anything with it until you delete LOADS of programs from the HDD. This is stupid. The remaining space was over 100 hours, and still I had to start deleting.

This recorder has a design fault. This problem has surfaced for other owners of this recorder, so I know it is not just mine.

I am VERY disappointed at Sony. I wish I had bought the Panasonic.

sony rdr-hxd1095 dvd recorder
a brilliant piece of equipment which more than meets my needs but it looks like it may be some time before we figure out all its facilities