Sony RDR-GX300 DVD Recorder/DVD Player

Reviewed by: kcrane22

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Easy to use, better title tool than most

Weaknesses: Creates disks that cannot be copied, will not play on some players!

Overall Evaluation: I loved this recorder when I first started using it for our archive project, and our other users quickly fell in love with it as well. However, we discovered that the disks this unit creates CANNOT be copied by standard DVD copy programs, such as Nero, PrimoDVD and others. This is not a problem for one-offs, but it is very much a problem for those shows that we need to make multiple DVDs of; why should I have to run the tape each time I want to make a copy? It's completely unsuitable for our archive project, because we wind up with that one digital copy of tapes that will no longer play. Sony's response: "We did not design that product with copying DVDs in mind." Sounds like it was part of the plan all along. I wish I'd known that before I bought this and the RDR-HX900, which has the same problem.