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Sony RDR-GX300 DVD Recorder/DVD Player

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Performance
Image quality	Very Good
Dubbing performance: Time to dub one hour of high quality content from the recorder's hard drive to DVD in minutes and seconds.	n/a
Experiences	n/a
Remote	Very Good
Interface	Outstanding
On-disc editing	Very Good
Features	n/a
Write formats	Write formats:DVD?R/RW
Hard drive	No
Rated dubbing speed: Maximum vendor-rated speed for transferring video from the hard drive to DVD	n/a
Inputs	3 composite, 3 S-Video
Outputs	2 composite, 2 S-Video, 1 component, 1 optical digital audio, 1 coaxial digital audio
VCR Plus+	Yes
Electronic program guide	No
One-touch recording	Yes
Time shifting: Ability to pause and resume playback of live television during recording. Also referred to as chasing playback.	Yes (VR mode)
Record modes	1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 hours

User Reviews for 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.
Reviewed by: Cajun101

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Can record on both + and - R/RW disks.

Weaknesses: Poor user manual.

Overall Evaluation: This is my second DVD recorder and it is not quite as user friendly as the other. The other took roughly an hour to learn and feel comfortable using were as this one took about two days of reading the manual and learning the controls. The manual is not very well written. I really like the fact that you can record too and watch a DVD at the same time. The VCR+ feature is nice as is the cover on the remote that prevents you from accidentally hitting the record button. Overall I am very pleased with this unit.