Sony RDR-HXD790

96% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

simple to use and with a sony tv one simple remote

if recording to hard drive some times takes time to finish

It meant I only had one box rather than 2 under the TV

Made noise like a helicopter landing when playing dvd's sent that unit back. Have had replacement unit long enough for it to run out of warranty and then HDD broke down. As the unit will cost a lot of money to fix I'm not going to bother. I used to...

Lovely quality picture. Easy to set-up. Easy to use Bravia interface on remote. Good tv guide and easy timer setting. Huge memory means whole series can be stored!

Slow to initialise - Can't just switch on and record. Can only record on dvd OR HDD, not both at same time. Manual is a nightmare to understand - not very simple, and I'm a tecchy!!

We tried 4 other recorders before this one3 of the same product all the others would not play or record on the old DVD’s that we had recorded on, but this one recognised all the info on the DVD’s and lets you play and record on the old DVD’s without...

Takes a while to get your head around the instructions but that's all at the present

Timed recordings using EPG actually records the program, not the time-slot contents. Finding alternative broadcast of clashing timed recording. Displaying free HD space in Hours:Minutes (not %free).

Access to 'to be recorded' list is a convoluted button sequence. Default position (once you've found the list) is peculiar - end of list after all the series-link check entries

HDD & DVD in one neat package Easy recording set up Record & watch at the same time

very easy to use,record quality v good,dvd upscale the best i have seen.

wish it could play avchd.

Once set up it is reasonably easy to use, and setting it to record from the programme list is very straightforward.

Instructions are difficult to follow and therefore it is not easy to set up.