Sony RDR-HXD870B: The future of digital recording!
Jazzy09, Dooyoo
2 September 2009
Summary: ~ Overview ~ As I am a massive film and TV lover I had to buy myself a DVD recorder which would do an all-round job of recording movies and TV shows which I enjoy on a
Pros: Reliable, records digital and analogue programs!
The ideal tool for recording digital TV (and keeping copies ...
Rocketeer007, Dooyoo
25 October 2008
Summary: This device from Sony serves a number of very useful purposes: 1. It can act as a digital or analogue tuner 2. It can act as a DVD player (with HDMI up-scaling) 3.
Pros: Good quality, excellent capacity,
Cons: Can get complex when you start using advanced features
Summary: This is a great recorder if you already have Freeview with your Tv or a set top box. That will make it possible to watch a Freeview channel on your Tv while recording a...
Summary: I have read through Nibelung's review of this Sony machine and he does make some valid points about it. I also own this DVD recorder/hard drive/freeview tuner and I have...
Sony RDR-HXD870B: 'Sony' A Set Top Box! Oh No It Isn't!
Nibelung, Dooyoo
10 December 2007
Summary: Like it or not, Freeview TV is coming - that's the over-the-air digital TV that bit by bit will see off analogue TV, and in fact the process has started, with the whole
Pros: Very versatile, as long as you know about the 'single-tuner thing'.
Cons: Anything else you master is despite the manual, not because of it
Excerpt: Previously we purchased a similar Samsung unit which, whilst slow to start up and at times fiddly to use was a whole different ballgame from the old world of VHS!
Excerpt: Ive bought a few peices of kit recently, and like most people I do the homework and then still wonder if Ill end-up buying a lemon! Well Im glad (and relieved!
Excerpt: Ive recently bought a whole string of new Audio and Video kit. This Sony box is by far the best of the lot!! It does everything with relative ease.
Excerpt: Just a quick review to say I have owned an 870 for nearly a year now and I think it is very good. High points are: 1.When recording shows with adverts to HDD it usually...