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You can tell the Sony DVP-FX850 is a different proposition to the LG and Philips simply by picking it up.
While capable of producing some of the finest performing DVD players around, Sony hasn't tended to look as comfortable at the ultra-budget end of the market as some of its rivals
The combination of DVD player and VHS recorder still makes a fair amount of sense. DVD is without doubt the best way of viewing movies on a television and VHS is an incredibly affordable means of recording
Despite being launched towards the tail-end of 2006, the RDR-GXD360 is still the only standalone DVD recorder in Sony's current range, which shows how much faith the company has in it.It'll record onto four of the five DVD formats, the exception being DVD-RAM
Sony's top-of-the-range HDD/DVD recorder combi has a bulging spec sheet, headlined by a generous 250GB hard disk, allowing an impressive maximum of 387 hours of recording
With the great analogue switch-off getting ever nearer, a DVD recorder should feature a built-in Freeview tuner as a matter of course. Amazingly, many do not, but Sony is not about to fall into that trap with the RDR-GXD360
With the great analogue switch-off getting ever nearer, a DVD recorder should feature a built-in Freeview tuner as a matter of course. Amazingly, many do not, but Sony is not about to fall into that trap with the RDR-GXD360
The nitty gritty of this aggressively priced combi is quietly impressive, with a built-in Freeview tuner, a DV input at the front and the ability to record on dual-layered DVDs.
One-box digital recorders are gradually becoming a mainstay of the home entertainment line-up, but it has taken several years to get this far. While DVD recorders have been around since the dawn of the millennium and digital TV...
The easiest way to record digital TV is with a hard-drive recorder, but those are geared towards people who record hours of TV without necessarily keeping anything long term
Sony's 'ES' products represent the high end of the brand's product range, so you don't have to be a genius to figure out that the NS9100ES is currently Sony's flagship DVD player.
The impending switchover to digital-only TV highlights the issue of what to do with old videocassette recorders and even relatively new DVD recorders that don't receive Freeview. You can connect any digibox to recorders...
Sony is steadily improving its DVD recorders,avoiding the scramble at the bottom of the market by adding high-tech innovations.The RDR-HXD910 works with most types of discs and includes a large hard disk drive (HDD) for...
Having unpacked Sony's gorgeous looking RDR-HXD910 DVD recorder, wired it into my AV system and undertaken an idiot-proof installation routine ('Easy Setup' asks you plain-English questions about what you're using it with)...
Sony's budget deck is a slimline model with an uncluttered fascia that'll win admirers from the minimalist school of design. It isn't particularly distinctive, but there certainly isn't anything off-putting about the look
Sony's flagship digital recorder, the RDR-HX1000, is able to record to both rewriteable DVD formats, DVD-RW and DVD RW, as well as the cheaper recordonce DVD-R and DVD R disks.
The RDR-GXD500 is the first Freeview-equipped DVD recorder to be launched in the UK and is priced at a very reasonable £400. It's surprising that no one has done it before...
It has been a long wait, but Sony's first hard-drive equipped DVD combi for Europe has landed. The RDR-HX1000 is Sony's new flagship (replacing the RDR-GX7 standalone model)