Sony RDR-HXD995 DVD recorder reviews and price comparison
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Sony RDR-HXD995:
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Most helpful reviewsConfirmed purchaser Appreciates easy setting up
- Good points:
- Reliable, easy to operate, many useful functions such as recording a whole serie with the touch of one button.
- Bad points:
- None
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Confirmed purchase: 23 Aug 2010
Gudrun, Windsor Technophobe
- Good points:
- Rather complex to install.
- Bad points:
- I've had four similar SONY HDR-recorders and two of them have broken in a similar way, i.e. when I try to burn a DVD it hangs and I have had to wait four weeks to have it repaired the last time. No good.
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Review date: 22 May 2010
Purchaser
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Does exactly what you want. 1080P up-scaling is great, better image on HDTV in SP than a live transmission.
Menu's easy to work out and the series link is a fantastic feature, even if Channel 5 can't differentiate between the main transmission and repeats!!
Image very stable, blank screen mid-recording is very very rare (but we do have a high-gain arial on a 12' mast as well) - Bad points:
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Shame you can't record HD back down the HDMI cable from the new Barvia Freeview HD TV's.
Only 1 decoder so can't record 2 clashing programmes.
When dubbing to DVD in a different quality it records in 4:3 not 16:9 and does it real time so takes ages, rather than post-processing and then high-speed dubbing.
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3 of 3 people found this review helpful
Review date: 20 Jul 2010
Confirmed purchaser Quality hunter
- Good points:
- Does most of what it says on the box
- Bad points:
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Only does most of what it says on the box.
I think it is appalling that Sony choose as a partner (GuidePlus) a company that ceases its service before analogue services are all switched to digital.
Personally, I will not trust Sony in future.
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Confirmed purchase: 19 Jan 2011
Terry, warwicks Bargain hunter
- Good points:
- sound and picture quality
- Bad points:
- user guide is too technical and does not resolve problems i.e. why some buttons on the remote do not work..
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Review date: 16 Apr 2010
Paul, Ely Film lover
- Good points:
- Ideal product for converting my old VHS and Home Movies to DVD
- Bad points:
- Recorded disks do not start to play automatically on this or other DVD machines they are played on
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Review date: 14 Apr 2010
This Sony RDR-HXD995 is reviewed on TechRadar
Product Features
| Hard disk capacity (Gigabytes) | 320 |
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| Playback formats | DVD Plus RW |
| Playback formats | DVD Plus R |
| Playback formats | DVD-RAM |
| Playback formats | DVD-R |
| Playback formats | DivX |
| Playback formats | Super Video CD |
| Recording format | DVD Plus R |
| Recording format | DVD-R |
| Recording format | DVD-RW |
| Recording format | DVD Plus RW |
| Recording format | Double layer |
| Audio technology | AC3 |
| Audio technology | DTS |
| Upscaling | Yes |
| Connections | USB |
| Connections | HDMI |
| Extra functions | Electronic Program Guide |
| 3D | No |
| Freeview or Freesat tuner | FreeSat |
| Number of scart ports | 2 |
| Weight (g) | 4700 |
| Release date | 2008-06-11 |
Also known as: SONY RDRHXD995, Sony RDRHXD995B.CEK, - RDR-HXD995B
Manufacturer's Description
Fully featured Hard Disk Drive DVD Recorder with Integrated Digital and Analogue Tuner, 250GB capacity, photo and music management features and BRAVIA Sync.
X-Pict Story is an enhanced Photo Slide Show feature which enables you to frame your photos with the appropriate look and feel through sound and transition effects. The final result can be burnt onto DVD and shared among family and friends.
Series Link – With the touch of a button your recorder will automatically record all episodes of your favourite series and you will not miss anything during the season.
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you can look for alternatives or
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Can I record from the Sky +HD box to the Sony HDD recorder? How easy is it to set this up? Can it be set up via Scart leads?
Cheers John-
Hi, John
Yes you can and I do it regularly. You set the programmes you want to record on the Sky box to 'Copy' and start it playing. There are only two caveats -
1. You need to identify which input to select on the Sony - Line 1 or Line2. Some Sky boxes work differently to others. As there is no HDMI socket on the Sony, you will need to use Scart leads.
2. The Sony will only record a certain legth of time as a single programme, before it starts recording as a second programme. This can create an unwanted break in the middle of something important, so you will need to check the manual (I can't find mine at the moment, or I would have checked it for you).
Hope it all works.
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I have a programe in the HRD drive , i want to copy into DVD,but this message is coming Title can't be dubbed at high speed in video mode
How to change-
Never had this message, I'm afraid. Have you chosen the correct way to make the dubbing? So sorry for not being able to help you more.
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can cvbs signals be recorded on this machine via scart or other sockets
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Robert,
I'm sorry but I don't know what cvbs is. If you could enlighten me, I will try to help. -
Robert,
Apparently it is not as good as RGB or S-Video.
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HI CVBS is the normally phono connections yellew red white on the front panel of the recorders ,,in some cases this can be in the rear and / or scart .. i use this on my present dvd for a security camera 'but find that a greater hard drive would be better , hence my quiery, Robert
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Robert,
The machine has inputs for both S-video and three phono plugs on the front, as Line 2 input. If you go to the Sony support page http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/RDR-HXD995 you can actually download a manual which should give you all the information which you require. -
Robert,
Hope the advice Jeffrey has given you will help you.
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What editing can you do on a recorded programme, does it do A-B erase, chapter edit and split title?
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Paul,
You can divide titles, and divide a title into chapters. You then delete chapters as required. -
Yes, you can do all these.
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Score 1.0/10Confirmed purchase: 25 Jul 2011