This unit is excellent. It gives a wide range of quality options so you can decide whether you want to go for top image quality or maximum recording time. You can record direct to DVD or to the built in hard drive. If you do record to the hard drive you can burn the recording to DVD later if you want, and play it in other players. The built-in Freeview works really well, and seems to be a lot more sensitive than the one built into my TV, picking up more channels. Recording from the built-in program guide is easy - you can even get it to control your Sky box (via an included Guide+ infrared dongle) so that it can change to the right Sky channel for a ...  Read the complete review

The Sony 'RDR-HXD890' is both a Freeview Hard Drive recorder, and a DVD recorder, which has a current price of £174.80 from Amazon. The capacity of the hard drive is 160GB, which equates to roughly 23 hours in the high quality recording mode, and 455 hours on the lowest quality setting. The machine is labelled as being 'Freeview+', which means you have the ability to pause and rewind live TV - handy for a quick trip to make a cuppa without missing anything. Sounds good? - well it isn't - or not in my experience anyway. After reading a number of positive reviews on Amazon, I found myself disappointed when I actually used this product. ...  Read the complete review

Well recently it got to the point that our old video-recorder started chewing tapes, so it was about time that we got a new one. We already had a DVD recorder, but had been using it in tandem with our video recorder through an aerial booster that split the signal between the two machines without loss of quality. We looked at the few video recorders that were still being manufactured but weren't that impressed, so we went for another DVD recorder, but not like the one we already had... When it comes to such gadgets, being the sort of person that likes to see what I am buying, after a little preliminary research on line, I went off to Comet's to see what was ...  Read the complete review