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- 4 Head (19 Micron Heads) VHS VCR with Stereo
- S-VHS Quasi Playback
- Easy to Use Graphic User Interface
- VCR-Plus+ Timer Recording
- One Push Dubbing – DVD to VHS or VHS to DVD
Product Description
Sleek and compact, the RDR-VX515 is the perfect accompaniment to your home theater. This DVD/VCR player has DVD+RW/+R, DVD-RW/-R recording compatibility, enabling you to store footage on multiple formats. Also featuring one touch dubbing, which makes it easy to archive old home VHS tape footage to new DVDs, the unit also offers an i.LINK digital interface and Digital8 input, for simplified digital recording of home movie footage from a camcorder to a DVD. Also includes a new slim-line chassis and compatibility with +R double-layer DVD discs for longer recording time. Next time your friends and family stop by for a movie, pre-recorded game, or to listen to music, impress them with the RDR-VX515 DVD Recorder & VHS Combo Player from Sony. The hits keep coming with the RDR-VX515 recorder from Sony.
March 14, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Very Good tool to transfer VCR tapes to DVDs as a Sony and play both
Rating: 4 / 5
March 14, 2010 at 4:29 pm
After discounts and rebates, this was a good value at $265. The player/recorder is full featured and works well. Recording DVDs from TV or the VHS player is good and the connection to a MiniDV camcorder to back up tape to DVD worked well too. It has lots of Video input sources (S-Video, FireWire (iLink), RCA on the front, RCA on the back, and VHF/UHF on the back) and output (S-Video, RCA, VHF, Digitial Coax, Ditigal Optical).
HOWEVER, it still falls short which is why it’s only a good value after discounts. The iLink (IEEE 1394) often chokes, which in the middle of a DVD means starting over again, and the HQ setting is too much for the on-board processor and the video drops frames. There are also some simple things which the manufacturer could have done in firmware like remember the DVD title of the last movie so that when recording a new one, you wouldn’t have to go through a painful character palette excercise to assign a name to a new DVD. Or offer a predictive type utility that remembered your previous entries. Things like this seem to always be missed at Sony which may be why it’s “beleagured” these days.
All told, good value for the money spent and no doubt the best DVD/VHS combo out there, but a reminder and warning to the electronics companies like Sony, the convergence with PCs is just around the corner and you won’t be able to just get by making stand-alone boxes for much longer.
Rating: 4 / 5
March 14, 2010 at 7:15 pm
This is a very good product and Sony is a great brand so i highly recommend it to anyone who is looking to buy a DVD Recorder. This item is the best out there and works great. This was worth every penny.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 14, 2010 at 8:03 pm
the first week i had to send product back to mfg. it is not user friendly the instruction booklet is not designed for the ordinary person. i do not recommend this product. i am orry i bought it
Rating: 1 / 5
March 14, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Bought this video cassette/DVD recorder because it was a Sony. BIG mistake! What a total piece of junk. Sony should be ashamed of duping their customers like this. The VCR recording quality is terrible: murky and the sound is tinny and muted. The DVD recording manuel would take a NASA scientist to understand and then, when you finally do figure out the instructions and follow them to the letter, sometimes the DVD recorder records, and other times gets locked into the “Loading” function and simply won’t read or record a DVD at all. The timer for DVD recordings is unreliable and as stated before, sometimes it records and others it does not. As others have stated, the dubbing function from VHS to DVD does not result in clear DVDs and sometimes won’t work at all. I would give this product ZERO stars if I could. Do not buy this product!
Rating: 1 / 5