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Product Description
Enhance your home theater experience with the easy-to-use convenience of the RDRVX530 DVD/VCR player. One-touch dubbing makes it simple to archive home VHS tape footage to DVD discs for long-term use, and i.LINK digital interface and Digital8 input simplifies digital recording of home movie footage from a camcorder to a DVD. This compact recorder is designed with +R Double-Layer Disc compatibility for longer recording time. Go ahead and enjoy your multimedia of choice. Whether music, movies or your favorite home recordings, the RDRVX530 DVD/VCR player is designed to perform.
Sony RDR-VX530 DVD Recorder & VHS Combo Player
February 28, 2010 at 4:11 pm
This is the second Sony dvd/combo unit (RDRVX) series unit to fail in two years. This series seems to have many problems. As of now I am EXTREMELY reluctant to purchase another one. Also it has rendered unusable two straight dvd-r discs of recordered shows. Now it is beginning to state that parts of tv shows are copy right protected movies!
Rating: 2 / 5
February 28, 2010 at 4:35 pm
For years I have been meaning to transfer old VHS tapes to DVD in order to preserve family memories. I tried various tools to transfer video via a PC but was disappointed by audio sync issues or the time it took to edit/burn DVDs.
I decided to purchase a Sony RDR-VX530 unit on a whim last month. After checking the reviews on Amazon I almost didn’t purchase this unit. I researched other DVD/VHS units but our family has always had good luck with Sony products in the past.
The directions for dubbing a VHS tap to DVD couldn’t have been easier: insert a blank DVD, insert VHS tape and press the video dub button. The first tape conversion went so smoothly I couldn’t believe it! I didn’t add any special chapters or titles but the DVD automatically inserted jump points every five minutes.
Our home videos were taken over the past eight years using two different camcorders. The first set of videos are on VHS-C (compact) format tapes. VHS-C tapes require a special holder/adapter to allow them to play on a standard VHS unit. One of the main reasons for purchasing a VHS/DVD burner was to convert these old tapes without having to use the camcorder output cables. The quality of the audio over those cables was never very good. The playback of the VHS-C videos looked fantastic on the new player.
Most of the video “scenes” were only a few minutes long with gaps between them. If the straight dubbing method was used there would be lots of snow and/or unnecessary gaps between scenes. The RDR-VX530 has a cool feature that makes it easy to dub scenes from VHS to DVD. Get the video to the starting point of the scene and press pause. Select the dubbing option on the system menu. The tape will rewind a few seconds, start to play and then start recording when it gets to the spot you selected. Just make sure you are ready to hit the stop button when the scene ends! This creates separate chapters/scenes on the DVD.
We have been using DVD+R discs for simple VHS conversions. The only “editing” you can do on a DVD+R disc is delete the last scene. If you use DVD-RW or DVD-R discs you can do more advanced editing. Scenes can be moved to different sections of the playlist and you can manually insert chapter marks.
The only cumbersome task (IMO) is adding titles to each chapter using the TV interface. You need to navigate the alphabetical list using the remote to select letters. After a while it seems to get easier but this is the one element of the process that would be easier on a PC.
Bottom line: Old home videos that hadn’t been watched in years are now converted to DVD! Now we can make copies of the home movie DVDs on a PC to share with family members or keep off-site for backup.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 28, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Easy to install; easy to use; recordings are just as good as originals; record DVD to DVD, VHS to DVD, DVD to VHS
Rating: 5 / 5
February 28, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Here is why you should run the other way screaming, or at least just run away.
1. If you copy your video to DVDs, many will not play on DVD players. Yes, the directions warn you of this and instruct you in the variety of recording options, but this doesn’t really change anything. You still cannot watch the DVDs and we didn’t have this problem with our last player/recorder.
2. You cannot tape shows or movies off the TV.
3. If you leave it on, eventually the sound will turn off on your TV. Even if you’re not watching a movie.
4. After a year, it makes bizarre rattling and clicking sounds.
5. Periodically it will refuse to recognize a disc and must be turned on and off.
6. Did I mention the squeaking when you insert a disc or tape?
7. It’s difficult to get the disc centered and can get jostled out easily. This will lead to…wait for it…not an ejection, but, yes, a crunching sound as the disc is smashed.
8. Sony will never pass through my doorway again.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 28, 2010 at 8:06 pm
The Sony RDR-VX530 is everything I expected in a DVD/VCR recorder player. While I have not done much in the way of Recording (other than tests), I have watched recorded movies on both DVD’s and VCR’s and find that the pictures are very clear and the sound is excellent. Far superior to the old RCA separate units that I previously used. I am totally happy with the unit and give it a 5 star rating.
Rating: 5 / 5