Sony RDR-HXD995 Freeview+ 250GB Hard Disc Drive DVD Recorder | 
| Brand: Sony
Buy New: £213.26
New (14) Used (2) from £184.23
Rating:  14 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 14.5
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 15.8 x 7.9
MPN: RDRHXD995B.CEK
Model: RDRHXD995B.CEK
EAN: 4905524484472
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Contents: Region - Zone 2 / Standard - PAL, SECAM / DivX/MPEG4 compatible - Yes / Compatible Media - DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD R, DVD RW, CD-R, DVD R DL, DivX, MP3, JPEG / Removable recording supports - DVD-R, DVD R, DVD-RW, DVD RW, DVD-R DL, DVD R DL / Internal hard drive - Yes / Internal hard drive capacity (in GB) - 250 / Integrated Audio Decoder - Dolby Digital 2.0 / Video Out - HDMI output S-Video output Component video output Composite video output | | • | Included Accessories - Remote control | | • | Dimensions (mm) - 430 x 288 x 76 | | • | Weight (kg) - 4.7 | | • | Other - Remote Control USB port DV iLINK input Built-in Freeview Tuner Block noise reduction Unwanted noise reduction Chasing playback Simultaneous play/record mode Pause Live TV |
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Product Description
Record your favourite TV programmes whilesaving on space with this dual-function RDR-HXD995 DVD player/recorder by Sony. This DivX-compatible device boasts a 250 GB hard drive, so you can store up to 710 hours of video! In recording mode, the RDR-HXD995 supports DVD-R/RW and DVD R/RW, as well as dual-layer DVD R. It includes several practical features, including a simultaneous play/record mode and a 32-event programmable recording function that can be used over a 30-day period. The RDR-HXD995 also has full connectivity with its HDMI output and USB port, allowing you to hook up your HDD camcorder and store your favourite home videos onto a hard drive. Turn your living room into a home cinema with the RDR-HXD995 by Sony!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Excellent product January 5, 2009
Claire (Scotland)
Got this just after xmas and very pleased with it. Very easy to set up and use. Cannot fault it. Had been looking at hard drive recorders for a while and decided on this one due to the very positive reviews and have not been disappointed. Spoken to people who bought cheaper models (Thomsons) and they have had all sorts of problems with the boxes freezing and having to be replaced. All in all a great purchase.
Easy peasy to use January 2, 2009
Ms. J. Hepburn (Cambridge, England)
I just love my new sony dvd recorder. It was so easy to install and the basic functions I have used so far have been a doddle! I was a bit concerned about the picture quality I would get as freeview is not great in my area, but unlike other reviewers I haven't had a problem and recieve all the freeview channels that I did when running the ariel through my TV instead.
 Great quality, poor interface January 2, 2009
Poplife (London, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Recording quality is excellent - so far, I've had no problems making great-looking 1hr 40min long DVDs from a Sky+ box by recording to the Sony's HD, editing, then burning to DVD. Freely (almost infinitely) adjustable recording quality. Happily records RGB-format signals from your satellite receiver, which helps a lot. Freeview picture quality also seems excellent. You can fairly easily edit the adverts out of recordings before burning to DVD, add more chapter marks, etc. They seem to have thought of everything in terms of facilities (apart from a manual audio level control. That would have been nice.)
Recording from the built-in Freeview tuner also works... although by comparison with a Sky+ box it's tough to get your head around.
And that's the real problem. The user interface is ugly, with poor use of the screen "real estate". Some of it is confusing, and some just downright awkward (for example, naming discs and programme titles is unnecessarily slow and laborious). I could live with that if the finished DVDs looked good, but the available DVD menu designs are laughable - there are only six, and all of them are ghastly, with almost illegible programme titles. They've clearly attempted to "jazz" them up with additional graphics, but the graphics are about Teletext quality. Yes, I think on one of them, that blocky-looking blob is supposed to be duck. Do you want a maroon duck on your DVD menu? No? Then that's one of the six designs you won't be using. Again, it wouldn't be a problem if there was one basic menu design that worked, but there isn't. So you end up trying them all in an attempt to decide which menu looks "the least bad"!
It's as if the engineers at Sony spent six months on the hardware, then an afternoon doing the software. That said, for simple archiving of TV programmes without firing up a computer, it works, and the actual video itself looks great. At the end of the day, that's all I need most of the time.
But beware, if you're not good with AV equipment you may find this machine too complicated to figure out... although I couldn't tell you if other DVD recorders are any better in this regard as this is the first standalone DVD recorder I've owned.
In summary: Great picture quality, but somewhat frustrating to use.
Pleasantly surprised December 25, 2008
M. B. Beacher (England)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Decided to get this as my father having problems recording on an old VHS so thought I would see how this worked.
Plugeed in Freeview aerial into machine then lead from machine to TV and then ran the installation to discover the TV channels - which worked fine and took a few minutes.
Recording to either HDD or DVD is a doddle - you pick the program from the Freeview listing then pick quality of recording - HQ (High Quality) is excellent and then click - dead easy.
Once recorded you can watch it playback from the hard disk (HDD) or copy it to a DVD to watch on another telly.
If you a new to DVD Recorders with HDD then get this model - so easy even my gran could use it.
DVD PVR recorder 4* Alas Jukebox 2* December 17, 2008
Rick Fenge
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Having read most reviews about this quite remarkable machine I shouldn't have been too surprised at the product once purchased. It does what it says on the box and shows many improvements in video management over earlier Sony offerings.
The Edit functions have been particularly improved and the mini preview screens showing the resulting 'joint' a big bonus. The ability to Split recordings at last makes the block copy function from Sky+ useful where you can transfer a whole series of say Spooks in one action then chop it into DVD sized archives.
Let downs are the items almost taken as givens from VCR days which have been value engineered out e.g RF out, Optical audio output, more than 1 external input on rear panel etc
But the biggest disappointment was in the jukebox's audio management capability. Uploading a few thousand MP3's first took forever.. you need a multi Gigabyte USB stick and a whole spare evening as there are tight restrictions on the number of tracks seen on one USB load. Choices of audio format are small with no support for WMA adding a few more hours to task for conversion.
Then it appears that the titles are stored by artist only in a completely random order. Selection of album or track display options being only possible on a per artist level. Come on Sony how many lines of code would a simple alphanumeric sort option have taken? Or, if its hidden in there your user documentation has serious weaknesses.
The playlist limitation of 25 tracks initially seems ridiculously restrictive, but when it takes 10-15 mins to locate each artist or track to put into the list the restriction was most likely introduced for Health & Safety reasons.
So overall an excellent PVR and DVD recorder; but the bolt-on jukebox function must have been given to a Vac student!
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