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169 reviews
Jun, 2025
We have collected and analysed 3 expert reviews and 166 user reviews from international sources. Experts rate this product 80/100 and users rate it 80/100. The average review date is 24-05-2007. We have compared these reviews to 205011 reviews from other DVD Players. The alaScore™ for this product is 77/100 = Good. Last update: 01-06-2025.
Consumer review (amazon.co.uk)
alaTest has collected and analyzed 128 user reviews of Sony RDR HXD 860 from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 3.9/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.0/5 for other DVD Players on Amazon.co.uk.
84% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.
Expert review by : tech.co.uk staff (techradar.com)
Can Series Recording lift this Sony from the masses?
Series Recording ; Excellent picture quality
Only one digital tuner and no analogue
It's certainly not perfect but it's a step in the right direction for Sony
Expert review by (whathomecinemamag.com)
Sony takes Freeview to the next level with a HDD DVD recorder that can automatically records all of the programmes in a series at the push of a button. It's not quite Sky, but it's getting there
Series Recording, Excellent picture quality
Only one digital tuner and no analogue
It's certainly not perfect but it's a step in the right direction for Sony
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
Ease of use and very good choice of recording speed.
Titling of recordings is a bit tedious.
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
Great product, easy to use
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
Excellent for editing recordings (cutting out ads or joining clips together etc), plenty of space on HD for many hours of recording
Takes a long time to start up with a DVD loaded
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
easy to use
can take a while to spool up from cold.
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
Series timer recording Watching programmes whilst recording others
Sometimes slow to go through menus
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
Picture and sound quality, stunning freeze frame stills, sound quality in audio only.
Unable to delete some files
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
EASE OF USE
CLOCK CANNOT MAKE OUT TIME
Consumer review (reviewstop.co.uk)
As soon as you take this Sony RDRHXD860S DVD recorder out of the box you realise it's a quality bit of kit. I've had mine 2 weeks...