Sony RDR VX 525

24% of reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

This is my second player with this model and it still freezes during DVD playback. Very frustrating for a machine that costs $217. As I can now see with most other customer reviews, I am not alone with this problem. Sony should at least provide for...

I bought this unit a month ago to archive some old VHS home movies. Nothing copyright protected. The unit does what it says it will do, but the output quality is rather poor. The VCR portion of the recorder is really lacking in quality. On my unit I...

I used to think that the name Sony meant that you were buying the best. Then I bought this POS. The operating instructions are terrible. The darn thing won't record worth a damn (it won't even record my home movies without some problem developing). ...

This thing has never worked right. should have taken it back but thought maybe i wasn't doing something correctly. it only records sometimes. sometimes with a decent picture sometimes like i use rabbit ears. it tries to record on its own when i turn it...

I bought this unit back in April-2009 for the sole purpose of transfering home movies from VHS to DVD before they deteriated, or for that matter, the dreaded tape Break. Just to have someone transfer a home movie over to DVD was running me $30 for the...

I would not recommend this product. Neither of the two features I need most from this Sony -- DVD player and DVD recorder -- work. The DVD player freezes all the time and there's no way to get past that point (FF, REW, etc. nothing works). Plus,...

This is the worst product I have ever bought. It never would record anything, so I thought due to it's price, at least it would reliably play movies. It won't even do that.

We have yet to have a Sony that is reliable and works appropriately. This one is a Sony PIECE O' CRAP as usual. Should have learned our lesson with the first one but no, we had to get this one, and we've been SORRY since. When it does actually write...

I bought this to migrate old VHS home movies to DVD. Know that the unit defaults to format Sony DVDs as video versus the DVD-RW. The one-touch record feature is nice, but you will spend multiple hours figuring out the GUI to do your projects.