Sony RDR-HX715
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Write
CDR
CDRW
DVD-R
DVD-RW
DVD-R DL
DVD+R
DVD+RW
DVD+RDL
DVD-RAM
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Read*
CDR
CDRW?
DVD-R
DVD-RW
DVD-R DL?
DVD+R
DVD+RW
DVD+R DL
DVD-RAM?
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Desktop, Firewire, HDMI, 160GB HDD |
$600 |
6.7/10
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Audio formats:
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WMA
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 joecass from United States reported November 16, 2011: |
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CDR?
CDRW? |
DVD-R
DVD-RW
DVD-R DL? |
DVD+R
DVD+RW
DVD+R DL? |
VCD?
XVCD?
XSVCD? |
SVCD?
SVCDSubs?
SVCDTracks?
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MP3?
CVD? |
over 1 year |
9 of 10
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Bought this recorder in 2005, still going strong. Have 8 other machines of various manufacture, have to rate this one tops. Logical Menu system, great picture, easy dubbing from hard drive to DVD. RF, Composite, Component, S-Video and HDMI upconversion. Not many machines of any brand came with Component Inputs. Comes in handy for recording HD channels from a cable box. Picture adjustment Pre and Post recording. Never used the TV Guide function, always record manually. Never had a failed timer. One or two coasters in over 6 years. Only complaint would be that editing is not exactly precise. On the hard drive, the editing points can be seen because the pic freezes momentarily. That disappears when transferring edited video
to DVD, but then the edit points are off by a few milliseconds. Other than that it's a great machine. I really wish Sony would have made a similar hard drive recorder with a digital tuner for sale in the U.S., I'd have bought one regardless of price. |
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| John from United States reported September 27, 2006: |
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CDR?
CDRW? |
DVD-R
DVD-RW
DVD-R DL? |
DVD+R
DVD+RW
DVD+R DL |
VCD?
XVCD?
XSVCD? |
SVCD?
SVCDSubs?
SVCDTracks?
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MP3?
CVD? |
over 1 year |
8 of 10
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Have two and just bought a third. This is the old recorder I found that has component inputt which allows me to record downconverted HD in 16x9. My cable box only output full 16x9 on component and DVI, it's s-video output is letterboxed.
The recorder transfer from HD to DVD is faster than my Liteon units and I think is an 8x unit in this machine.
TV Guide on screen works if you have a good data stream from cable or Over the Air.
Timer settings are just as easy as manual input which allows you to program for turner or line in 1, 2, or 3.
Has three video inputs (1 has composite, s-video and component, 2 & 3 are composite and s-video)
Also does a good job of upconverting output on HDMI.
Commercial discs play with automatic size change between 3x4 and 16x9 on HDMI and component if in progressive. The same works if you set the 16x9 flag in recording. Use of the Auto setting doesn't make that change in my set-up.
One strange thing is that 16x9 material output to +R to to real time and converts the image to a letterboxed 3x4 image. The way around this is to "lie" to the machine and don't set the flag to 16x9 and then output to DVD+R and use IFOEdit to change the flag in a computer. This allows you to record to DVD+R DL a three or four hour movie at SP speed.
Sony also has a SLP speed that does 2 1/2 hours on a single layer disc in additon to other speeds.
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| John Lawton from United States reported September 27, 2005: |
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CDR
CDRW? |
DVD-R
DVD-RW
DVD-R DL? |
DVD+R
DVD+RW
DVD+R DL? |
VCD?
XVCD?
XSVCD? |
SVCD?
SVCDSubs?
SVCDTracks?
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MP3
WMA
CVD? |
14 days |
3 of 10
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Works reasonably well but has some serious flaws. Will record scene changes and create chapter marks but will NOT write any of them to DVDR!!! Every chapter mark you add remains on the HDD and the only way to get those important chapter marks to a DVDR is to write them to a DVDRW on this machine and then copy the DVDRW to another recorder to write them on another DVD recorder. How stupid.
Remote works but that's about all. It's cheap. Features are good but dispersed all around the recorder in no order, rhyme or reason. Editing can difficult but unless you are writing to a DVDRW, who cares about chapters on this machine?
TVGOS - TV Guide has its own problems. Not recommended for satellite.
No automatic finalizing of DVDs. Long process where you have to remember to go to a second menu, press a bunch of buttons to finalize every disk. Easy to forget.
Not worth the money especially with no chapter marks to a DVD. Sony has really gone downhill. |
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