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Sony RDR-HXD870 - DVD Recorder With 160GB Hard Drive - With Freeview - Black
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3228 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Sony
- Model: RDRHXD870B.CEK
- Released on: 2007-03-10
- Dimensions: 14.51 pounds
Features
- SONY HARD DISC DRIVE DVD RECORDER
- 1 X HDMI OUTPUT
- 2 X SCART CONNECTIONS
- 160GB HARD DRIVE
- IN BLACK
Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer's Description
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All you need to know about the Sony 2007 Hard Disk Drive Recorder range |
 | Definition High Definition: HD means Higher Definition - up to 4x more detail and clarity. It really is the future of home entertainment. The industry standard for HD is 720 lines, however, Sony are leading the way with 1080 lines - or HD1080. |
 | Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Recording HDD recording is changing the way we experience home entertainment. Record directly to HDD and store a massive amount of content without the need for tapes or discs! |
 | Integrated Digital Tuner FREEVIEW Digital broadcasts offer 30+ TV channels as well as 20 radio radio stations including entertainment, children's, news, music and lifestyle. The FREEVIEW service is a simple way of getting a wide choice of digital channels and no contract. |
 | EPG (Electronic Program Guide) The 8 day on-screen guide allows you to select the programme to watch or record at the touch of a button. Simply press ‘Enter’ to store the programme to your built-in Hard Disk Drive Recorder. Select the programme you have recorded from the on-screen menu, then sit |
 | HDMI (High Definition Media Interface) A HDMI interface allows for the best picture possible from your Sony DVD/HHD/Blu-ray player/recorder to your Sony BRAVIA LCD TV. |
 | BRAVIA Theatre Sync With a single touch of a button, control your entire Sony entertainment system and remove the need for additional remote controls. |
 | Series Recording Never miss you favourite shows again! Just follow the simple steps below; |
 | Pause Live TV & Simultaneous Record and Playback You can pause your favourite TV shows, movies or live sports and pick up where you left off ! With Simultaneous Record and Playback, you can watch one show and record another, making sure that you never miss you favourite shows when they clash! |
 | Photomovie You can playback your favourite photos, view thumbnails and play a slide show while you listen to music! Just simply place a photo CD/DVD in your HDD Recorder or connect your digital camera via USB and you can easily access your content with the intuitive menu system. |
 | Music Jukebox You can playback your favourite songs/albums, sort by artist, album, track and genre with this great feature. Simply place a music CD/DVD in your HDD Recorder or connect your MP3 player via USB and you can easily access your content with the intuitive menu system. |
 | Automatic Programme Title Labelling Isn't it difficult to find that programme you recorded on the VHS tape you want to watch and cant easily find? Now with Automatic Programme Title Labelling you can easily find your recorded shows, just by looking at the name and the synopsis! |
‘Sony’, ‘like.no.other’, 'BRAVIA', 'BRAVIA Theatre Sync' and their logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Corporation, Japan. All other trademarks acknowledged. |
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Customer Reviews
Works well and keeps on going
It's been 6 months since I bought my Sony RDR-HXD870 and I'm still just as impressed with it as the day it came out of the box.
The build quality of the box is of the usual, high Sony standard, and the same goes for the remote. It looks good under the TV, doesn't draw attention to itself either in its looks or noise level.
Initial setup takes a while, especially if you're looking to coordinate the box with a third party tuner or satellite receiver, but its worth getting it right on day one because you'll never have to fiddle with it again.
That said I've never quite got it to fully cooperate with my Sky digital box. I consider myself quite competent when it comes to fiddling with machinery like this, and the complexity of this part of the setup is the only reason the box doesn't get a five star rating.
The quality of DVD playback is excellent -- you can see a huge difference compared to supermarket or games console DVD players. The 4-speed fast forward/rewind is worth the money alone.
Recording is simple and the quality is high -- in the highest fidelity mode you can barely distinguish that it's not live. 160GB is more than enough for my needs. You watch something, you delete it. Simple.
Another Sony triumph.
Excellent HDD/DVD Recorder - But the '890' looks like being a worthy successor
Just a quick review to say I have owned an 870 for nearly a year now and I think it is very good.
High points are:
1. When recording shows with adverts to HDD it usually places chapter marks reliably at the beginning and of advert breaks. This means that if you want to burn the recording to DVD it is very easy and quick to get rid of the adverts using the A-B editing function before you burn the DVD.
2. The tuners are good, particularly the digital one. Having recently acquired a Freeview aerial and a Samsung LCD TV to go with the Sony, I have to say the Sony tuner is superior to the Samsung, good though the latter is. The quality of picture when pumped through the Sony to the TV is excellent. Obviously the results you will get will be dependent on your individual circumstances, such a aerial, signal strength, HDMI connectors etc etc.
3. Upscaling to 1080P through an HDMI connection for DVDs is really good and as a previous reviewer implied gives new life to your DVD collection when you watch them again. (Comment: For the reviewer having difficulty with 1080P as their TV is 1080i, I found that in the HDMI settings within the system menu for the 870 you can set the output to different levels including 1080i and 1080p. Hope this helps.)
4. The Guideplus programme guide system which you can use with either the analogue TV tuner or the digital is clearer and easier to use in my opinion than the digital Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) that is also supplied and makes it easy to find programmes to record. You can record series if you use the digital EPG, but I note that the new 890, which is the successor to the 870 highlights it as a feature so maybe it is easier to use on the 890.
All in all, I would thoroughly recommend this recorder though perhaps it may be better going for the replacement 890.
Recording from SKY HD BOX planner to DVD harddrive
Has anyone out there managed to record from the Planner on SKYHD BOX with this player/recorder Sony RDR-HXD870.
As I've tried everything to record from there, I can only record directly from HDBOX.
I know it's probably the connections but can someone tell me which connection goes where, I have HDMI connections and scart but still unsure why it's not recording from the planner from SKYHD.
Otherwise get piece of kit well worth the money.
Roly
