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Sony RDR-HXD870 - DVD Recorder With 160GB Hard Drive - With Freeview - Black | 
 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
Buy New: £214.99
New (5) Used (4) Refurbished (1) from £159.99
Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 3833
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 14.5
Dimensions (in): 19.6 x 15.7 x 8
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MPN: RDRHXD870B.CEK
Model: RDRHXD870B.CEK
EAN: 4905524419504
ASIN: B000OQ7878
Release Date: March 10, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | SONY HARD DISC DRIVE DVD RECORDER | | • | 1 X HDMI OUTPUT | | • | 2 X SCART CONNECTIONS | | • | 160GB HARD DRIVE | | • | IN BLACK |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 78 more reviews...
 Excellent HDD/DVD Recorder - But the '890' looks like being a worthy successor September 30, 2008
D. Hart
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 places chapter marks reliably at the beginning and of advert breaks. This means that if you want to burn the recording to DVD it is very easy and quick to get rid of the adverts using the A-B editing function before you burn the DVD.
2. The tuners are good, particularly the digital one. Having recently acquired a Freeview aerial and a Samsung LCD TV to go with the Sony, I have to say the Sony tuner is superior to the Samsung, good though the latter is. The quality of picture when pumped through the Sony to the TV is excellent. Obviously the results you will get will be dependent on your individual circumstances, such a aerial, signal strength, HDMI connectors etc etc.
3. Upscaling to 1080P through an HDMI connection for DVDs is really good and as a previous reviewer implied gives new life to your DVD collection when you watch them again. (Comment: For the reviewer having difficulty with 1080P as their TV is 1080i, I found that in the HDMI settings within the system menu for the 870 you can set the output to different levels including 1080i and 1080p. Hope this helps.)
4. The Guideplus programme guide system which you can use with either the analogue TV tuner or the digital is clearer and easier to use in my opinion than the digital Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) that is also supplied and makes it easy to find programmes to record. You can record series if you use the digital EPG, but I note that the new 890, which is the successor to the 870 highlights it as a feature so maybe it is easier to use on the 890.
All in all, I would thoroughly recommend this recorder though perhaps it may be better going for the replacement 890.
Recording from SKY HD BOX planner to DVD harddrive September 21, 2008
Peaseaman (UK)
Has anyone out there managed to record from the Planner on SKYHD BOX with this player/recorder Sony RDR-HXD870.
As I've tried everything to record from there, I can only record directly from HDBOX.
I know it's probably the connections but can someone tell me which connection goes where, I have HDMI connections and scart but still unsure why it's not recording from the planner from SKYHD.
Otherwise get piece of kit well worth the money.
Roly
instruction book September 7, 2008
T. gregory (notts england)
The m\c is very good however the instruction book may as well be written in arabic its that bad to follow
Very very good HDD/DVD Recorder. September 5, 2008
K. Lews
Just had 2 weeks playing and learning about this Recorder. Some thoughts as follows:
1)Bought from Avides(Germany)through Amazon. The packaging was absolutely hopeless with a large hole in one corner of the box. Thankfully the item was perfect inside. Saving almost 50 of the typical price.
2)Yes the manual is quite complex but so is the machine. Who would know more then 60% of what a modern PC can do? It pays to read the manual quite carefully.
3) As a recording machine it is very very good. I have no problems with the EPG. It functions very well.
4) The remote is a little fiddly with small buttons. I also have the Sony Bravia 32". The picture upscales to 1080i which is the maximum the Bravia can handle. If you try to force the 1080p resolution through the Bravia screen goes blank. The 1080i resolution is astonishing. Any old DVD is upscaled to 1080i through the HDMI connection. On the matter of the HDMI cable I can tell you here and now that the 0.51 cable works exactly the same as the 35.00 cables you can buy in the high street stores. The reason for saying this is that digital cables either work or they do not work - there is no in between. The signals carried are binary ie on or off. They are not subject to interference as analogue cables are. Gold connections make no difference to end quality of the picture. As I said they either work or they do not.
5) Back to the RDR-HDX870 - Having transitioned from a JVC S-VHS recorder
straight to this latest HDD technology I can truly say the the machine is simply awesome.
Excellent recorder August 31, 2008
P. J. Kahrel (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
1. Good unit, easy to set up.
2. The remote puts all the necessary functions within easy reach: EPG, timer, slide show.
3. Good manual: clearly organised, well written, useful index.
4. Good slideshow: there's even an "angle" button on the remote so you can rotate images with one touch.
5. You can watch a DVD while recording to the HD.
5. Good connectivity: you can connect digital cameras, and through the USB port you can play slideshows from USB jumpdisks, CF cards, etc.
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