Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #594 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

Manufacturer's Description

All you need to know about the Sony 2007 Hard Disk Drive Recorder range The new Sony range of Hard Disk Drive Recorders give you more time to do the things you want to do. Whether that’s going out with friends, playing your favourite sport or enjoying time with your family. These new features allow you to watch what you want, whenever you want.

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. Standard Definition: Standard definition is what we've been watching for years on our TV's, it can still produce superb quality images and if you're going to play back your footage on a SD TV then a SD Hard Disk Drive Recorders will deliver great looking results.

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! RDR-HXD870: 160GB Hard Disk Drive for up to 455 hours of TV recording RDR-HXD970: 250GB Hard Disk Drive for up to 710 hours of TV recording RDR-HXD1070: 500GB Hard Disk Drive for up to 1400 hours of TV recording

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. What better way to enjoy them than with Sony BRAVIA televisions.

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 back and enjoy.

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; 1. Access EPG 2. Select programme 3. Press ‘Blue’ to access Series Info for episode detail 4. Choose to record one episode only or select ‘Series Timer’ to record all episodes 5. Series Info screen shows programmed episodes 6. Series Recording display in 8 Day EPG for future episodes

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!

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Customer Reviews

Excellent piece of kit
Just got this to replace our JVC HDD/DVD recorder that went bang for the 3rd time.

I can thoroughly recomend the Sony, easy to set up, easy to use and excellent picture quality. Streets ahead of the JVC in every way.

The instuction manual is not as intuitive as the machine itself, but has all the answers if you look carefully.

HIGHLY recomended

It's just like 1983!
After spending 3 hours reading the manual, I worked out how to record one channel while watching another (NB you also need a freeview box/TV to do this)! Great or what? My Dad's old Sharp VHS could do that (and you had to read the instructions for that from cover to cover as well).

Back to the future.

Still, well worth it for the fact that none of my monthly take-home kicks back to Rupert.

Excellent
Sony RDR-HXD870 - DVD Recorder With 160GB Hard Drive - With Freeview - Black I bought one of these in June (from a different store for about £9 more as there's was multi region)and haven't regretted it since. I have a pioneer 42" Plasma TV with built in freeview which the Sony is hooked up to and though the freeview on the TV is prone to breaking up I've found the freeview on the Sony far more stable only occasionally pixellating. I've mentioned this because in most of the reviews I read while researching which DVD/HDD recorder to get, the fact that the inbuilt freeview aerial in the Sony was supposed to be poor quality, compared to the panasonic, came up quite a lot of times. Also during my research there were a lot of queries as to whether you could watch one program and record another, well the simple answer is yes as long as you watch the other program through your TV's tuner or Sky box (obviously if you have Sky) i.e. exactly the same as if you were using a video recorder. I have found that the 160gb HDD is certainly large enough for my needs (holds well over 60 hours of recordings at a good resolution) and even more if you lower the resolution, though why anyone would want to lower the resolution is beyond me. I love the one press record feature which I use on almost a daily basis and when I go to view the programs I've recorded to the HDD, there is a little preview screen next to each recording which automatically starts when you click on the name or date of the program recorded, which is very handy when you have more then one recording on the hard drive waiting to be viewed. The picture through the Sony is also very crisp and clear especially when using its digital freeview aerial and also whilst playing DVD's. I have yet to try all the inbuilt features of this recorder(could take a while, there's that many of them), all in all I'm very pleased I bought the Sony in preference to what seems to be its main rival(the Panasonic) and can't recommend it highly enough.