Sony HDD DVD recorder - anyone have one?

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geekiegeek

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#9873 19-Oct-2006 19:43

I'm thinking about buying the 910 (I think thats it) the 250GB mdel. Does anyone have one of theseor a similar Sony recorder?

Whats the recorded picture quality like and any thing I should know before buying? will be using with Sky and a Sony HX32 32" widescreen CRT with a move to a bravia 40"+ next year.

Super8

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#49194 20-Oct-2006 19:08

Perhaps consider the Panasonic E65. Has HDMI onboard and upscaling.
http://www.panasonic.co.nz/product-detail$product$567$.html

Hit the Labour weekend sales, 15% off on Panasonic & Sony through one of the retailers.

Check on the Sony whether you can pre-title your recordings. From memory you can't but it can harvest TV titles from teletext listings. Sometimes it is not always successful.

Nety

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#49388 23-Oct-2006 18:59

I have the 710 (160 GB HDD). I got it for 3 hundy when Sony could not provide the model offered as a mail in offer.

I do like it although to be honest if I was spending the money to buy one at shop prices I would not... Bettter off building a media centre PC.

The biggest problem is not being able to change the channel on the telstra STB. Means that if I am not recording something on the free view channels then you have to program both the STB and the HDD recorder.

As far as labeling the titles disgruntledconsumer is correct. On the sony you cannot pre-lable recordings. The teletext labeling does work and I have not had it fail (once i got it going anyway). The problem is that it only works for those channels that have teletext pages.

The 910 also has HDMI upscaling but personaly my TV does a good job of that anyway.

I cant think of anything else important about it but if you have any other questions feel free to ask.

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Frankei

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#50841 2-Nov-2006 21:05

The only problem with the RDRHX910 having "HDMI upscaling" is that it does not have a HDMI connection...

Only the 400Gb RDRHX1010 has HDMI
The new 820 160Gb and the 920 250Gb from memory has HDMI

The Sony recorders are very nice cosmetically and GUI wise... Only con about the new 720 is the lack of Intelligent Chaptering which was a really handy feature