#! Cheapest Sony RDR-VX560

Cheapest Sony RDR-VX560 1080p Tunerless DVD Recorder/VHS Combo Player

This machine has worked great for me but I have not used it tons and tons. I got this machine because my VCR was broken and I wanted to watch a movie I only had on VHS. It made no sense to get my old cheapy VCR fixed, so that's when I thought it would be good to invest in something that would allow me to play VHS tapes, but more importantly, convert them to DVD.

When I brought the machine home, it was relatively simple to insert a blank DVD, insert the VHS movie, and click the dub button to start playing the movie. I was able to watch the movie while it was copying it to DVD (I made sure not to pause or interrupt the VHS because that would interrupt the recording process). This worked great. When I have time, I'm going to convert all of my other VHS tapes.

Another thing I did successfully was record a movie at its show time directly to DVD. Worked great. Once again, I watched the movie while it was recording.

I have a cable box, which has a couple of outputs. I needed to go to Radio Shack to buy an audio splitter so that the audio could go directly from the cable box to the TV, as well as directly from the cable box to the RDR-VX560. This was unique to my setup, so I'm not saying you will need to do the same thing but just keep in mind you might need some cables and connectors to set things up optimally for ease of use.

There are features, after your record to DVD directly from either VHS or the airwaves/cable, where you can add chapters and titles. I added some basic info without reading the manual. Worked great.

Oh, if you are like me, and have never had a unit like this before, then it might help to know it works in a manner where it burns the DVD while you are playing something to record (i.e., from VHS, airwaves, cable). When whatever is playing is done, you can pause recording. When clicking to eject the DVD, the DVD will be "finalized" (close the recording session). You can also finalize manually via a menu option. I believe you can leave the unfinalized DVD in the recorder, and just keep recording from various sources as you desire, only to finalize when you're ready. Since I've only used it to record whole movies, I have always gotten to the end of the movie, and used the manual menu option to finalize. I have not tried leaving a DVD in the unit to record as needed on a heavy basis. I used it in a small test, and it seems to work well. Pretty cool actually.

I did not see any freezing like the others mentioned. You might call Sony support and ask them about any concerns you have in that regard and whether or not they fixed anything in newer models (maybe I have a newer one, but I bought it about 2 or 3 months ago). I'm not sure if Sony ever sends out firmware updates (i.e., on a special DVD), but you might ask them. Maybe there's a update to fix some software problems which might relate to problems others have reported. This is a complete guess on my part, but I would definitely look into it if I were serious about buying and concerned about the other reviews. I bought it because I saw that it was being sold at places which I don't think would sell a really bad product, so I bought it on faith after reading the basic specs.Buy Sony RDR VX560 Lowest Price, Order Now! [Click Here!]

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