Sony SVR-S500

Sleek styling ; Dual TV tuners ; Decent digital images ; Excellent recording performance across all quality modes

Sparse connectivity ; No CI card slot ; Frustrating usability

Recordings using the standard (SP) mode are extremely accurate to the original, although the odd digital artefact does occasionally rear its head. Aside from a touch more shimmer around edges, the lower quality (LP) mode shows very little...

image quality

35% of reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Ours has just packed up again. One replacement, one reconfigure and now broken completely. Unfortunately now out of guarantee. Will defintitely not buy a Sony one to replace. Didn't buy on Amazon - should have and checked the reviews first!

Great little system, the instructions are rather complex and seems to have lost a bit in translation, generaly a good little system. Only bad point is that you can not record SKY tv, or TNT if you are in France, if it could then would be superb

I've had this machine since it came out; lots of problems with the EPG in the early days and then all was fine for a year after an update. Now the machine is being extremely temperamental; won't respond to input commands, won't turn off, brings up...

Anyone from Sony reading this should be ashamed to have been involved with this product, it's total rubbish. How this got out the factory door, I'll never know. I bought this two months ago and almost from the get-go, it failed to live up to the badge....

As stated previously, the unit is ridiculously noisy, unresponsive, and not user friendly at all. Steer clear at all costs!