The Sony RDR HX 1080 B makes a very solid and high quality impression. Like its predecessor, it burns reliably and flawlessly everything is of good blanks on the market. For DVD + R / -R DL Verbatim blanks are unbeatable (2.4x, 4x, 8x). Otherwise, the HX 1080 comes also with all major brands cope (Sony, TDK, etc.). Connecting designed easily. That's about it as well. Operation of the device is a throwback to the Stone Age, the manual would certainly pass as a significant defect. There is virtually nothing explains important information are seemingly indiscriminately distributed to all sides, if they exist at all. As a previous owner of a technically skilled RDR-HX 910 I still need hours to make simple adjustments. Particularly a manual programming of the timer (yes, hard to believe, but this is often necessary as provided by Sony probably) is a bad joke. Each number must be entered individually to then be confirmed separately. The miserable is yet to come: the desired station you have to enter a two-digit number, but here individually each number. An overview of the stations you have not, man can not simply increase the number by pressing a key or make less! What's become of the 5-second programming of the RDR-HX 910. Only because of EPG + was such a backward step not necessary. In addition, important, daily used functions can be accessed only indirectly with up to nine steps. In addition, a recording pause button and for many functions still missing status at the machine itself. There is indeed the OSD, but you have to constantly switch back and forth. Annoying to unacceptable is the fact that in the editing function for any occasion something is reproduced from the recording. Thus about the "AB Erase", which only half seconds works well with fast dubbing from HDD to DVD, moreover, reiterating reproduced the cut end. The purpose of these pesky function remains however in the dark. Also in the track list, the entire recording will be played continuously. Here you can choose only between full and reduced reproduction. The specification of memory available on the DVD is never comprehensible and moreover so inaccurate that you previously do not know if aureicht the place. 8.5GB DL discs he displays with 8 GB memory early, 4.7GB DVD's with 4.4GB. The manual deals totaling more with what the unit can not, as with the features that it has. Unfortunately, the rest of the operation has also become so cumbersome and illogical that we must advise against the purchase of the device - in any case, if you have no previous experience in DVD recorders. Therefore only three stars - for the quality it would have given five stars. This is definitely my second and last Sony. I had already thought of a return.
