Sony RDR-HX900 Review

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Sony RDR-HX900
2.7 stars
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JohnE5's Review of Sony RDR-HX900 Digital Video Recorder

22nd Aug 2005

Overall Rating

3 stars
  • Value for money
    2 stars
  • Image Quality
    4.5 stars
  • Features
    1.5 stars
  • Time DVD Recorder Owned
    1 - 6 Months
  • Sound Quality
    3.5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4 stars
Good Points

Great picture quality. Easy to use.


Bad Points

No title divide function for the hard drive.


General Comments

The Sony RDR HX900 DVD Recorder is a great machine, and would probably be the hands down choice of any serious stand alone recorder purchaser, if it had edit functions that are basic on competitor's models. Not being able to split titles on the HDD makes it difficult to maintain high quality recordings when transferred to DVD. The only way I have found to overcome the split issue, is to record the first hour of a movie or show, and then record the 2nd, 3rd hour etc... as a separate timer recording. This takes a little extra time, and you lose a little time between recordings, but allows HQ recording on more than one disk. The HQ+ mode produces impressive picture, but can only be dubbed to disk on HQ. If Sony were able to come up with a firmware editing fix for current users, and if they reintroduced the product with the fix, I'm sure this would be the leading recorder in the industry, regardless of price.

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