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Hitachi HDR505

“Poor”

Written on: 08/06/2012 by JackCrack

Just a poor quality build machine, slow, temperamental, the supplied remote doesn't work well at all (has to be twisted and manipulated to work) Hitachi will not help, Argos will not help, they all seem to know it's a lemon. DO NOT WASTE THE CASH (read more)

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Hitachi HDR505

“Wish Never purchased”

Written on: 17/02/2012

Only had my HDR505 digital TV recorder for 6 months and has started to go slow and freeze. To delete or chose a recorded programme from the library it freezes and it has started to miss set recordings. (read more)

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Hitachi HDR505

“disapointed”

Written on: 13/02/2012

worked well for 12 months then started not responding and freezing still works but takes a long time to do anything shall have to replace it soon thought it should last longer than 15 months (read more)

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“The Hitachi HDR505 digital TV recorder is excellent...”

Written on: 28/11/2010 by paulmatthewssurv (2 reviews written)

The Hitachi HDR505 digital TV recorder is excellent value for money (on offer at Argos for £110 when I bought it, with a £10 Argos voucher, so actual price £100 really). Its hard drive is 500 GB - impressive!

It's extremely user-friendly including the set-up process, although when you switch it on for the very first time it takes about 5 minutes to boot up and display the menu and you think it's not working! Once that's done it takes about 30 seconds to start from standby so I tend to... (read more)