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Sony RDRGX350B DVD Recorder | 
 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
Buy New: £91.25
New (7) Used (4) from £76.99
Rating:  11 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 14.5
Dimensions (in): 19.8 x 15.8 x 7.7
Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers.
MPN: RDRGX350B.CEK
Model: RDRGX350B.CEK
EAN: 4905524419498
ASIN: B000TJFTIU
Release Date: July 11, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Multi-format DVD recording and playback | | • | Jpeg, MP3 and DivX playback | | • | Up to 24 hours maximum recording time on Dual Laye | | • | 1080p upscaling | | • | Progressive output |
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Product Description
The RDR-GX350 DVD player-recorder from Sony has 1080p upscaling technology and an HDMi connection so you can get Full HD quality images directly on your TV screen! Equipped with numerous image-enhancing functions, the RDR-GX350 also includes Bravia Theatre Sync and Progressive Scan for precise image rendering. Your favourite films and DivX videos will turn out clearer than ever and without the effects of afterglow or aliasing! Finally, the RDR-GX350 is equipped with Dolby Digital and DTS audio decoders for images that are so realistic, they seem too good to be true!
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| Customer Reviews:
 Superb Sony December 9, 2007
Tony Basset
110 out of 111 found this review helpful
This is a stonking good DVD recorder. The menu and simple timer/setup controls are a joy to use. The Sony RDRGX350B looks sleek and stylish and delivers high quality recordings at many speeds - it can record up to 10 hours on a standard disk!! The machine plays and records most if not all DVD formats and has special modes to record 3 hours on a disk (to record that special 3hr film at best quality).
The menu was easy to operate and had an Undo in case you made a mistake. Having used previous DVD recorders this one stands out and the remote is very light and has great range.
At under 100 this is a bargain. Sony quality without the price.
Wow! You can see the difference! January 15, 2008
Gordon Heaney
38 out of 39 found this review helpful
This is a great peice of kit. It's cheap, easy to use and the difference the upscaling makes to the image quality is quite remarkable. I use it through a SONY 37" LCD HD TV.
I watched Disney's Cars and the picture quality is quite stunning. So good in fact that I can't see how HD could improve upon the picture this little baby produces. The upscaling does seem to make a noticable difference.
However, you must use an HDMI cable to get the benefit of the upscaling - a SCART cable won't cut it.
Set up is quite easy and the upscaling option defaults as standard to 1080i, so you don't have to do anything to get a great picture.
The manual is very good and you can use the remote control to control the TV - one less remote to sit on!
The only down side of this product is the small and not always easy to read display. Other than that, highly recommended - it's a bargain.
Marvellous - don't hesitate March 13, 2008
Mr. F. L. Dunkin Wedd
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
Looks great - plays great - records brilliantly.
Bought this to replace a Philips - and it's perfect. Records onto any old DVD+ or DVD- (even cheapo ones from Lidl!), replays at fantastic quality AND upscales to 1080p! Not listed as multiregion, but still seems to play my few US discs quite happily. Also plays discs made on my PC without complaint. Looks the business, too, in moody black!
Even broadcast output from a digibox looks better played through this machine. However, the Sony wants to be the last thing in the chain - ie plug the digibox (or whatever) into the Sony, and then the Sony into the TV. (My chain goes VCR > digibox 1 > digibox 2 > Sony GX350 > telly - and works a treat.)
At this price you're not going to get a digital tuner. (Even if you did you'd still only be able to record one thing - a twin tuner PVR would be better.) But recording quality on the Sony GX350 is indistinguishable from the original - even at 2.5 hour length. In fact, recording and playback quality are both absolutely marvellous.
Complaints? Well, the manual seems a little over-complicated (110 pages!). And as someone has said before, the on-screen instructions are in a tiny font. Editing functions are limited to DVD- discs. But for 99 quid, who's quibbling?
First class.
EDIT: One more thing. On DVD+ disks it records the usual .VOB files. On DVD- disks it records the less compatible .VRO files. For maximum compatibility you may be best off sticking to DVD+.
Worth every penny January 29, 2008
Mr. D. Grindey
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
Excellent quality. Arrived promptly. Easy to setup. Recording within the hour. Used DVD-RW. HQ setting is excellent although disks only last an hour. Took disk straight from SONY and played on Denon with no finalising required. Ace. N.B. For best quality (up to 2 hours) get some Dual Layer DVD-RW. May need a hack for multiregion.
EXCELLENT - HDMI player/recorded at this price! January 8, 2008
D. Morris (Great Yarmouth, England)
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
Hi, Wanted a HDMI upscaling player to play a lot of my SD DVD's. Many branded Players are around the 39.99 to 69.99 price so when I saw this SONY player and multi recorder for 89.99 it was almost an instant buy.
Haven't tried the record features yet as only wanted to use it as a player at first. have set up the HDMI link and played Lord of the rings and the Minority Report to test the player. Found that there are a lot of settings for the display, and in a special preview mode you can change tint, sharpening etc and view as you do. My main worry was the new HDMI options. It offered RGB 0-255 RGB 16-232 & Y Cr CB 4:2:2, Y Cr Cb 4:4:4. What the hell was this I thought? Then with some interent help and manual reading I have gone with the Y Cr Cb 4:2:2 option. I find it to be the clearest and best colour range. Most noticealbe is the black range. On RGB 0-255 it is too strong blacks and oversaturated. These options although confusing at first will probably be in every HDMI dvd player/PS3/Xbox elite options screen. Its what your TV (LCD) will suit the best, is the option you choose, there is no standard better option.
Anyway, the remotes ok, the box is stylish to look at and not massive, so far so good. I have the sound coming via my TV to a thearte system. Would have connected via optical digital but this model only has coxial digital. Never mind can't have it all! Only region 2, but this doesn't bother me, I buy from Uk anyway.
Buy it, you won't be disapointed. Cheers All.
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