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	List Price: Our Price: £89.99 Your Save: £ ( % ) Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Electronics Brand: Sony EAN: 4905524419498 Feature: Multi-format DVD recording and playback. Jpeg, MP3 and DivX playback. Label: Sony Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers. Manufacturer: Sony Model: RDRGX350B.CEK Publisher: Sony Release Date: 2007-07-11 Studio: Sony
Features Multi-format DVD recording and playback. Jpeg, MP3 and DivX playback. Up to 24 hours maximum recording time on Dual Layer DVD. 1080p upscaling. Progressive output. S-Video input.
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Great. Comment: This is a great bit of kit and goes nicely with my KDL32D3000. Highly recommended. Customer Rating: Summary: Marvellous - don't hesitate Comment: Looks great - plays great - records brilliantly. Bought this to replace a Philips - and it's perfect. Records onto any old DVD+ or DVD- (even cheapo ones from Lidl!), replays at fantastic quality AND upscales to 1080p! Not listed as multiregion, but still seems to play my few US discs quite happily. Also plays discs made on my PC without complaint. Looks the business, too, in moody black! Even broadcast output from a digibox looks better played through this machine. However, the Sony wants to be the last thing in the chain - ie plug the digibox (or whatever) into the Sony, and then the Sony into the TV. (My chain goes VCR > digibox 1 > digibox 2 > Sony GX350 > telly - and works a treat.) At this price you're not going to get a digital tuner. (Even if you did you'd still only be able to record one thing - a twin tuner PVR would be better.) But recording quality on the Sony GX350 is indistinguishable from the original - even at 2.5 hour length. In fact, recording and playback quality are both absolutely marvellous. Complaints? Well, the manual seems a little over-complicated (110 pages!). And as someone has said before, the on-screen instructions are in a tiny font. Editing functions are limited to DVD- discs. But for 99 quid, who's quibbling? First class. EDIT: One more thing. On DVD+ disks it records the usual .VOB files. On DVD- disks it records the less compatible .VRO files. For maximum compatibility you may be best off sticking to DVD+. Customer Rating: Summary: Difficulty in setting up with Sky HD Comment: I bought this to do 1 thing, which is to empty my full Sky HD hard drive, I know it doesn't record in HD, as yet nothing commercially available will. No all I wanted to was to put the 6 recorded Rugby league games onto their own discs. I have an AV amp at the heart of my system, I have the SKY HD box and this recorder feeding into that via HDMI and an HDMI from AV Amp to the Plasma TV, working a treat. Now I wanted to connect the recorder side of things via scart, firstly no signal at all coming into the recorder, that was the SKY box output setting, sorted, then when I did eventually get a picture its about one third the size of my plasma with no sound at all. This I assumed was the very expensive RGB Scart I used which I suspect is picture only, add an audio lead I thought, the problem is there is no audio input on this Sony other than the decoder/line in scart. So I have had to buy a second fully wired scart, but still when I look at the picture through this scart it is still reduced in size to the middle of the plasma. Frustrating!! so in terms of playing DVD's it is good, trying to get recordings from the Sky HD box to it though is a different matter. Customer Rating: Summary: Fantastic quality, but real pity no integrated digital tuner. Comment: I read the reviews already posted for this product before I purchased it from Amazon. I have to agree with all of the positive feedback and would say that watching a DVD on this recorder is an absolutely tremendous experience. However, and it's quite a big 'however', I find it pretty useless for a DVD Recorder, being more akin to an old VCR than a DVD Player, not to have a built-in digital tuner. Apparently you can download digital channels from a Freeview equipped telly, but I haven't been able to yet and when I can, I will only be able to record digital output when the TV is on. In other words, I won't be able to do timer recordings unless the TV is on. Bearing in mind the fact that the analogue signal will be turned off over the next couple of years in the UK, I think the lack of an integrated digital tuner is pretty lousy. That said, if you have Sky or a digital set-top box, I wouldn't think the issues I'm having would be relevant. Asides from this, as indicated above I can't see how a Blu Ray could be any more crisp than the picture quality provided by the upscaling on this machine. Customer Rating: Summary: Worth every penny Comment: Excellent quality. Arrived promptly. Easy to setup. Recording within the hour. Used DVD-RW. HQ setting is excellent although disks only last an hour. Took disk straight from SONY and played on Denon with no finalising required. Ace. N.B. For best quality (up to 2 hours) get some Dual Layer DVD-RW. May need a hack for multiregion. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: The RDR-GX350 DVD player-recorder from Sony has 1080p upscaling technology and an HDMi connection so you can get Full HD quality images directly on your TV screen! Equipped with numerous image-enhancing functions, the RDR-GX350 also includes Bravia Theatre Sync and Progressive Scan for precise image rendering. Your favourite films and DivX videos will turn out clearer than ever and without the effects of afterglow or aliasing! Finally, the RDR-GX350 is equipped with Dolby Digital and DTS audio decoders for images that are so realistic, they seem too good to be true!