The Sony-HX900 DVD recorder -Not recommended!Sorry to say I cannot recommend the Sony-HX900 DVD recorder. I am usually a Sony buyer, yes, as you may have read on my home page I had Beta, SuperBeta, and Sony TVs dating back to the 70's. But for standalone DVD recorders so far Sony has barely caught the boat and is charging a Titanic price for their DVD recorder. Check out this Sony DVD Recorder.
This DVD recorder has no flex record hence no divide program feature on its hard drive. This means that recording a movie that's greater than 2 hours in length cannot be divided over 2 separate DVDs (in its optimum picture quality setting). There's no hard drive function that divides the movie so the Sony-HX900 DVD recorder will not let you record to another DVD to finish the movie. Sony had a full year to examine the Panny's features to duplicate what the Panny's can do. To me this is an extreme disadvantage. I'd prefer the Panny. That being said
the Sony-HX900 DVD recorder is a fine
machine. It has great picture quality, and easy, good
looking interface, robust build quality, the TV Guide programming, nice styling,
and a cool one-touch Firewire dubbing feature. Maybe I was disappointed with
this DVD recorder because I
expected so much more from Sony. Click the link if you're interested in the Sony HX900 DVD Recorder.
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It's a better buy.