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Sony RDR-VX555 DVD - VHS Player Recorder Combo
Enhance your TV and movie watching with the high quality RDR-VX555 DVD recorder and VHS combo player.
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RDR-VX555 DVD Recorder
Quality multi-format DVD/VCR recorder combo offers great features at an affordable price. Your current
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Player freezes up.
I purchased this player recorder for my wife at Best Buy.
She is very pleased with the recorder function and how easy it is to
convert VHS to DVD.
But, after about an hour or so of playing a DVD the player momentarily freezes up.
I tried different factory recorded DVDs.
I paid $50 for the best Buy warranty. I took it back to Best Buy for repair.
After They had it for 2 weeks they called us to inform us that they had to send it to Sony. 2 weeks after that we were informed that it was ready for us to pick up.
Best Buy said that Sony replaced the"Loader". We got it home, after being in repair for a month. The problem was still there! After playing a DVD for about an hour it intermittently locks up. I am very frustrated.
I purchased this player recorder for my wife at Best Buy.
She is very pleased with the recorder function and how easy it is to
convert VHS to DVD.
But, after about an hour or so of playing a DVD the player momentarily freezes up.
I tried different factory recorded DVDs.
I paid $50 for the best Buy warranty. I took it back to Best Buy for repair.
After They had it for 2 weeks they called us to inform us that they had to send it to Sony. 2 weeks after that we were informed that it was ready for us to pick up.
Best Buy said that Sony replaced the"Loader". We got it home, after being in repair for a month. The problem was still there! After playing a DVD for about an hour it intermittently locks up. I am very frustrated.
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I purchased the RDR-VX555 to replace my years old Sony VCR and planned to primarily copy some VHS to DVD as well as record programs from my DVR. It does these functions OK. However, I expected that this would also replace my older DVD Player (DVP NS50P) and provide better viewing with the HDMI connection capability. Well, almost.
On the large percentage of commercial DVDs that play properly, I can't complain. What I do complain about is that about 5-10% of DVDs that I have tried in it will freeze/hang or have jerky playback. Often it gets to the point of frustration where I give up on the HDMI upshift and play the DVD in my old player. Better an image that plays consistently than one that frustrates the heck out of me.
So I returned the unit to Sony for repair. They returned the unit with no note, but I had previously talked to the tech and he had not found any problem at that point. It still froze/hung on playback. So I selected a couple of DVDs that exhibited the problem and returned
On the large percentage of commercial DVDs that play properly, I can't complain. What I do complain about is that about 5-10% of DVDs that I have tried in it will freeze/hang or have jerky playback. Often it gets to the point of frustration where I give up on the HDMI upshift and play the DVD in my old player. Better an image that plays consistently than one that frustrates the heck out of me.
So I returned the unit to Sony for repair. They returned the unit with no note, but I had previously talked to the tech and he had not found any problem at that point. It still froze/hung on playback. So I selected a couple of DVDs that exhibited the problem and returned
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I bought this to convert my VHS library to DVD. I have had mostly success, but I have had many issues when formatting or finalizing DVDs. Today I took the time to divide my DVD (DVD-R in VR mode) into 20 titles and typed them all in, not easy on their crappy editor. When I finalized the disk, something went wrong and all of my work was gone - I was back to one hour-long chapter. I have had other issues when formatting as well. This is an OK product but there's got to be better ones out there.
