© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/prices/Sony_RDR_VX515 Recent reviews written about Sony RDR VX515 en-us 100 100 http://www.epinions.com/prices/Sony_RDR_VX515 http://img.shopping.com/cctool/PrdImg/images/pr/100X100/00/01/71/21/76/24191350.JPG http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_222953705092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wtmitchell3 - My wife bought this product for us for Christmas, as she was tired of seeing the ever-expanding VHS collection taking over so many bookshelves. After she bought the product, I looked at the reviews here at epinions and found that several of them... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~222953705092 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:34:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_222953705092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_217076960900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author grimmts - We went through all the hassle of exchanging our old piece of equipment for this Sony model...only to find out you can't change channels by using the number keys. That's right, you can only change channels using the "Channels +/-" key! Whoever designed... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~217076960900 Sun, 8 Jan 2006 22:34:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_217076960900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_216686300804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author gjb49 - We purchased this as an Open Box at Circuit City. I started to copy tapes to disk and discovered that there was severe "Blocking", i.e. pixelization - large squares of pixels that occurred with movement (looked like news interviews where the person's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216686300804 Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:51:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_216686300804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_216454041220?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author smiley558 - I spent many hours looking for a DVD recorder/VCR combo that could read multiple formats. The technical reviews on this model were great. Bought it and hooked it up on Saturday. The quality was great for regular movies. Even the +R mpeg files were pretty... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216454041220 Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:49:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_216454041220?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_216021765764?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author t5amigo - Major problem: disk finalize takes way to much time.. It takes way to long to finalize a disk..more than 20min so far and it's still processing... Should have been finished in 5min or less.. Pioneer and Pan DVD recorder finalize in just a few... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~216021765764 Sun, 1 Jan 2006 18:45:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_216021765764?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_214703574660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ASourdough4 - UPDATE: I have changed my mind. After successfully updating our clunky VHS Copies of "ShowBoat - 1936" and "ShowBoat -1988" movies; I am much more impressed by the utility of this type of AV Recorder. The 1936 Version came from a Turner Classic Movies... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~214703574660 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:52:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_214703574660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_212730809988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author fvracer6 - This recorder has zero compatibility with a Dish satelite receiver. It is a struggle to get any of the features to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~212730809988 Thu, 1 Dec 2005 22:00:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_212730809988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_210187161220?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author iceman07 - Don't buy this DVD/VHS Recorder. The Picture Quality when Recording from VHS to DVD is really bad on all Speeds. Also when recording DVD or VHS from TV it is very bad. My old basic DVD/VHS Combo(Toshiba non-DVD reorder) records VHS tapes with a way... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~210187161220 Thu, 3 Nov 2005 18:02:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_210187161220?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_202802892420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author davcuts - I looked at several DVD recorders before deciding to purchase the Sony RDR-VX515. I came close to purchasing the Go Video VR5940, but after reading several reviews on reliability, I decided to go with Sony. The DVD recorder records great. Recording VHS... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~202802892420 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:44:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_202802892420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_196996533892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author sunshinesmile - For the price I paid, I really did expect better. The problem mainly is that the resolution doesn't seem to improve even when I changed the recording speed to the HQ! I actually had better resolution from Go-Video DVDR-VCR combo before it went kaput... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~196996533892 Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:07:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_196996533892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_195342864004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author thesonyguy - This Sony Vhs-Dvd recorder is a great product, while playing pretty much any disc, and having many video in connections. The quality of the burning is outstanding, depending on what you copied. However, on some VHS's, it won't let me copy them due to the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~195342864004 Wed, 7 Sep 2005 21:08:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_195342864004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_194240286340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author dgrimes - I expected better out of a Sony product. The whole point of buying a DVD recorder with a VHS built in is to be able to easily transfer VHS to DVD. But the built in VHS machine is of very poor quality. The tracking must be manually adjusted to get... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~194240286340 Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:06:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/review/Sony_RDR_VX515/content_194240286340?linkin_id=8003929