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Sony RDR-VX555

40 reviews

Nov, 2024

Positive
usability (25)
price (3)
image quality (2)
design (2)
size (1)

Negative
reliability (10)

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 40 reviews of Sony RDR-VX555. The average rating for this product is 2.3/5, compared to an average rating of 3.7/5 for other Digital Video Recorders (DVR) for all reviews. Reviewers are impressed by the size and image quality. The price and usability also get good feedback, but many are critical about the reliability. There are some mixed reviews about the design.

usability, price, image quality, size

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We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Digital Video Recorders (DVR) the Sony RDR-VX555 is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 59/100 = Good quality.

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Consumer review (amazon.com)

Amazon.com review summary for Sony RDR-VX555

alaTest has collected and analyzed 35 user reviews of Sony RDR-VX555 from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 2.3/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.5/5 for other Digital Video Recorders (DVR) on Amazon.com. Reviewers really like the price. The image quality also gets good feedback. There are some mixed opinions about the design. Many are less positive about the reliability.

usability, image quality, price

reliability

34% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Nov, 2024

Consumer review (newegg.com)

You can do better IMHO

Clean look, HDMI out

Where to start? I bought mine at Costco. It skips like crazy while playing DVDs. First I thought it was damaged NetFlix rentals but when we played a brand new DVD right out of the box and it skips there is a real design flaw IMHO ; Recording is poor...

Oct, 2007

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Excellent unit

This unit has been superb. It performs exactly as specified and has been very easy to use, even for my non-technical family members. It has a large mix of advanced features, but the user interface in the on-screen menus is one of the best I've seen and...

This is not a con to me at all, but make sure you understand that this unit does not contain a frequency tuner (analog or digital). It is NOT meant to be hooked up directly to your cable/satellite connection and automatically decode the signal for you;...

Sep, 2007

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Consumer review (epinions.com)

Freezes/hangs on playback

I purchased the RDR-VX555 to replace my years old Sony VCR and planned to primarily copy some VHS to DVD as well as record programs from my DVR. It does these functions OK. However, I expected that this would also replace my older DVD Player (DVP...

Not too hard for a geek to operate

Freezes or hangs during playback of about 10% of commercial DVDs I've tried

Feb, 2008

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Consumer review (epinions.com)

Seemed like it would have been a good product but...

Easy to use interface for copying between DVD and Video and Video to DVD.

Not as straightforward as the interface made it seem.

Jan, 2008

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Consumer review (epinions.com)

Seemed like it would have been a good product but...

I bought the Sony RDR-VX555 with the intent of archiving a lot of family VHS tapes onto DVD. At the store, the interface for doing so seemed quite elegant, straightforward and downright simple - one button. Looked safe enough to even hand it over to my...

Easy to use interface for copying between DVD and Video and Video to DVD.

Not as straightforward as the interface made it seem.

Jan, 2008

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