Sony RDRDC505B Hard Disk/DVD Recorder In Black

My RDR-DC505B recorder is connected to a Bravia KDL-32 EX403 television and having both from the same manufacturer gives very clear and good viewing, howerver when everything runs smoothly see below

With two pieces of equipment from same manufacturer and being able to use one controller should make life easy. Unfortunately not the case. If the switch on procedure is not carried out in the correct sequence power to the recorder can take ages to...

I have an earlier model of this Sony DVD recorder (which is sadly no longer in production) and am impressed by it, so wanted a second one for another room in the house. I like the way I can watch a pre-recording saved on the hard drive whilst...

I was disappointed to find that it will not record in any format other than High Quality so where as I am used to burning several recorded programmes to a single DVD I am lucky if I can fit one programme with htis model in fast burn mode. This is a big...

Pleased so far; but I have yet to use it fully

Display is too small and hard to read. Erasing is not as quick as earlier 250HD. in this machine you must wait until erasing has completed before you can proceed to any other thing ; I am not fully conversant with all functions, so my input is limited

A lot of useful features including flexibility to play various media types

Slow to respond to power on/off, tray open etc . Display hard to read in reasonable light and a bit too small