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Sony RDRHXD970 - 250GB Hard Drive DVD Recorder With Freeview

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Technical Details

  • 250 GB for a maximum recording of 385 hours onto the HDD
  • Freeview Tuner
  • Analogue Tuner
  • 8 day EPG
  • Pause live TV
  • HDMI port with 1080p upscaling
  • Record and Playback DVD-R/RW
  • MP3/JPEG/DivX playback
  • Series Recording
  • Automatic Programme title labelling
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Product details

  • Item Weight: 7 Kg
  • Boxed-product Weight: 7 Kg
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  • Item model number: RDRHXD970B.CEK
  • ASIN: B000OQ8RN2
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 10 Mar 2007
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 32,223 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)

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Product Description

What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision Review

The ’970’s stunning recordings, and slick, intuitive interface all go to show that if you spend more, you get more.

Manufacturer's Description

All you need to know about the Sony 2007 Hard Disk Drive Recorder range
The new Sony range of Hard Disk Drive Recorders give you more time to do the things you want to do. Whether that’s going out with friends, playing your favourite sport or enjoying time with your family.
These new features allow you to watch what you want, whenever you want.


Definition

High Definition: HD means Higher Definition - up to 4x more detail and clarity. It really is the future of home entertainment. The industry standard for HD is 720 lines, however, Sony are leading the way with 1080 lines - or HD1080.

Standard Definition: Standard definition is what we've been watching for years on our TV's, it can still produce superb quality images and if you're going to play back your footage on a SD TV then a SD Hard Disk Drive Recorders will deliver great looking results.


Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Recording

HDD recording is changing the way we experience home entertainment. Record directly to HDD and store a massive amount of content without the need for tapes or discs!

RDR-HXD870: 160GB Hard Disk Drive for up to 455 hours of TV recording
RDR-HXD970: 250GB Hard Disk Drive for up to 710 hours of TV recording
RDR-HXD1070: 500GB Hard Disk Drive for up to 1400 hours of TV recording


Integrated Digital Tuner

FREEVIEW Digital broadcasts offer 30+ TV channels as well as 20 radio radio stations including entertainment, children's, news, music and lifestyle. The FREEVIEW service is a simple way of getting a wide choice of digital channels and no contract.

What better way to enjoy them than with Sony BRAVIA televisions.


EPG (Electronic Program Guide)

The 8 day on-screen guide allows you to select the programme to watch or record at the touch of a button. Simply press ‘Enter’ to store the programme to your built-in Hard Disk Drive Recorder. Select the programme you have recorded from the on-screen menu, then sit
back and enjoy.


HDMI (High Definition Media Interface)

A HDMI interface allows for the best picture possible from your Sony DVD/HHD/Blu-ray player/recorder to your Sony BRAVIA LCD TV.


BRAVIA Theatre Sync

With a single touch of a button, control your entire Sony entertainment system and remove the need for additional remote controls.


Series Recording

Never miss you favourite shows again! Just follow the simple steps below;
1. Access EPG
2. Select programme
3. Press ‘Blue’ to access Series Info for episode detail
4. Choose to record one episode only or select ‘Series Timer’ to record all episodes
5. Series Info screen shows programmed episodes
6. Series Recording display in 8 Day EPG for future episodes



Pause Live TV & Simultaneous Record and Playback

You can pause your favourite TV shows, movies or live sports and pick up where you left off ! With Simultaneous Record and Playback, you can watch one show and record another, making sure that you never miss you favourite shows when they clash!



Photomovie

You can playback your favourite photos, view thumbnails and play a slide show while you listen to music! Just simply place a photo CD/DVD in your HDD Recorder or connect your digital camera via USB and you can easily access your content with the intuitive menu system.



Music Jukebox

You can playback your favourite songs/albums, sort by artist, album, track and genre with this great feature. Simply place a music CD/DVD in your HDD Recorder or connect your MP3 player via USB and you can easily access your content with the intuitive menu system.



Automatic Programme Title Labelling

Isn't it difficult to find that programme you recorded on the VHS tape you want to watch and cant easily find? Now with Automatic Programme Title Labelling you can easily find your recorded shows, just by looking at the name and the synopsis!



‘Sony’, ‘like.no.other’, 'BRAVIA', 'BRAVIA Theatre Sync' and their logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Corporation, Japan. All other trademarks acknowledged.





Product Description

HDD DVD RECORDER 250GB

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60 of 60 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Can a black box change your life?, 25 Sep 2007
By Nigel Tant (Exmouth, UK) - See all my reviews
I bought this after a bad experience with a Sony 860 (which went back), so I approached this machine with some trepidation. The previous machine had great facilities, but just didn't work very well (poor sound, switched itself on and off etc!). Happily, this is a wonderful piece of kit and brilliant value for the money. Recordings to the HDD drive are superb (especially in HQ), and the EPG and series link work well. Setting programmes to record is so easy and dubbing to DVD is also simple and fast. Reviewing what has been recorded is a breeze; the recording list has thumbnails which play excerpts to remind you what the programme contains, as well as the programme title, time it was recorded, channel (BBC1..) etc.! Being able to start watching a recording before it has finished and the ease and fuss-free operation actually changes the way you watch TV. Also, it is a great DVD player and the upscaling via the HDMI link makes standard DVDs look near 'HD' quality. What's not to like?
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84 of 85 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite perfect, 16 Nov 2007
By Richard Cox (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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Contrary to some posts I found this very easy to set up, perhaps because I bought a Sony TV at the same time. Picture quality is excellent and the whole system is easy to use. The hard drive is enormous and I would estimate that you could store 100 - 120 programmes on it at any one time.

The EPG is a great feature BUT there is an design fault which means the system will often wipe the setting within 24 hours of it being set. There is nothing as frustrating as a DVD recorder which doesn't record what you have set it to record. I have subsequently found out that many other people have had the same problem. There ere numerous internet sites which show that consumers have been having this problem for many months but that Sony have denied that there is a problem. I have had an email from Sony today in which they admit that there IS a problem and they are working to fix it - so there's light at the end of the tunnel. If they fixed this then this machine would be perfect and excellent value for money.
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74 of 75 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Machine, 25 Jul 2007
By P. Reynolds (Norfolk, UK) - See all my reviews
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I've had this machine for a month now, as a replacement for an RDRHXD860S that broke down after 2 months.

This machine seems to be far superior to the previous model and is far more intuitive to use. In operation it runs almost silently and performs at a much high speed (the 860 had a noisy fan and always had a slight delay before responding to each command).

All recording has been performed faultlessly and the ability to jump advert breaks at the touch of a single button is great. The 250GB hard disk is very rapid in it's operation and provides huge storage potential.

All in all a true 5 star machine and highly recommended.
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