Sony SVR-HD900

Easy to use, dual HDTV tuners, plenty of storage space

Price

The Sony SVR-HD900 is an easy to use and feature filled hard disk recorder with 250GB of space for both standard definition and high definition TV.

HDMI output ; Large hard drive ; Twin HD tuners

Expensive ; Lacks USB or Firewire adaptors ; Pixelated recordings

Sony's limited EPG list is plagued with a slight delay in response time when scrolling. We noticed about a one second delay per channel. Further, the EPG is not always completely accurate in its listings guide. We found sometimes that stations would...

Simple point and click recording. 5 minute skip. Rather modern-like interface. Guide would work well if the FTA EPG signal was reliable. Large 250GB HDD.

Time set by broadcast signal (Brings about its own problems). Slow to boot up. Unreliable. Can't remove recordings from HDD.

it worked on and off for a while

erodes sony brand. doesn't work. freezes, crashes. 2 returns to repair. new motherboard. new unit crashing again. don't buy sony hard disk recorders period. sony, feel free to contact me matt.commerceatgmail.com

Does everything I want, great picture onto my Sony LCD TV

Slow to boot-up

Good quality pictures and sound via HDMI output ; Twin tuners ; Easy to record to disc

No USD RJ 45 connection ; Cannot cope with Daylight saving ; Slow to update programme guide

Excellent HD images (I run it through to a 1080i projector), twin tuner is very useful, as is 'fast skip' button. Even picks up the program names for recordings from the digital guide

Could do with a larger hard drive - 36 hours of HD recording is a bit limiting ; A port so you could offload it would be nice as well ; Can't reorder channels in Favourites list (TEN should be last, not first) ; You have to explicitly tell it how long...

Excellent HD images (I run it through to a 1080i projector), twin tuner is very useful, as is 'fast skip' button. Even picks up the program names for recordings from the digital guide.

Could do with a larger hard drive - 36 hours of HD recording is a bit limiting.

When it worked the picture was good

The first unit the picture was very poor quality and high pixilation. Swapped unit. The second unit would not boot up correctly. When turned on it only showed "power on" and then you had to turn it off and on to get it to finally boot up. We ended up...