Sony RDR-HX525 Reviews

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Sony RDR-HX525
2.9 stars
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Average Ratings for Sony RDR-HX525

  • Value for Money3.2 stars
  • Reviewer Ratings3.9 stars
  • Overall Rating2.9 stars

4 Reviews For Sony RDR-HX525

  • Guest 20th Dec 2007

    Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars


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    Good Points: Easy to use and TV listing and set up to record very good. Picture and sound quality most pleasing.


    Bad Points: I will be most wary of buying Sony products in future, in fact I am going to steer clear.


    General comments: This was bought new in October 2006, and I did not take an 'instore warranty' and we did not get an offer to extend the warranty at about 11 months as one does with many purchases - silly me because after 56 weeks the hard disc drive failed with HD ERROR and it does not respond to the 'trouble shooting' guide. It seems that in such a case 'you're on your own baby', because to get it repaired by Sony is extremely hard. The retail store was not an accredited repairer. We have had bad experiences of Sony products this year. A new Sony laptop was faulty and so were two subsequent replacements, so this DVD is only following the trend I suppose!

  • rajk 10th Oct 2007

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    I bought this item from eBay six months ago for £150 as a refurbished item. It had only 30 days warranty. It haven't had any problem until the warranty expired. Now I don't know what to do. So I am leaving it on all times now. I don't know, may be it happens me only, because I didn't see another review like this.

  • riker Rank: Major 12th May 2007

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    I use mine on the HQ setting which does only give about 59 minutes recording at the highest (almost broadcast) quality - just to record programmes when I am out. It is still perfectly acceptable on the lower settings - the lowest is still as good as VHS. The dubbing function is really useful - haven't used it much but it only takes about 10 minutes to write out to DVD. There are lots of other functions such as pause live TV which I haven't been able to use as the DVD is on the same channel as my ...

  • Ieuanfawr Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel 5th Jan 2007

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    I bought this model in the sales for £199, which I reckon was a good deal. While some of the features are not immediately obvious, I'm very pleased with it and it does everything I've asked of it.

    I've found the quality of the (stereo) sound and picture to be good on my common or garden CRT TV, arguably better than before!

    The only cables supplied were the power cord, the "G-link" and a co-ax cable for the UHF link to the TV. In my case, I had all the SCART leads I needed as the DVD ...

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Main characteristics: DVD Type: DVD Recorder / HDD Recorder Number of Discs: 1 Progressive Scan: With Progressive Scan Playable Disk Types: DVD Video VCD SVCD DVD-R DVD-RW DVD+R DVD+R more details...