Sony SVR-HDT500 PVR reviews: HDR with HDMI
This digital TV recorder is a good all rounder.
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Most helpful reviewswilliam, Belfast 74 year pensioner
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Very easy to use, perfect sound and picture
Live in Northern Ireland and was able to pick up R T E 1+2+TG4 Channels. - Bad points:
- Not found any yet.
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Confirmed purchase: 26 Nov 2012
Duncan, London Film lover
- Good points:
- Nice picture and it supports additional storage / USB to access other media.
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I was disappointed with this recorder and not what I expected from Sony. Has slow startup speed and quite poor when viewing a programme that is still being recorded or live timeshift. I have had recorder crash - fortunately not repeated since firmware upgrade but this is not the type of thing my mother could have fixed. Some controls not very user friendly especially for commonly used actions such as deleting a recording when finished watching. There is a "skip to end" button right next to to fast forward so very annoying if watching time delayed live TV and accidentally touch it. Why not have +10m and back instead?
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Confirmed purchase: 24 Nov 2012
Patrick, South Croydon Nothing for the time
- Good points:
- Not many.
- Bad points:
- The Sony SVR-Hdt 500 loses channels and even after factory setting the same problem recurs . I have now returned it to the seller and would not recommend it to any body.
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Confirmed purchase: 21 Mar 2013
david, peeblesshire Film lover
- Good points:
- none
- Bad points:
- It blew up and had to be replaced
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Confirmed purchase: 19 Jan 2013
- Good points:
- Very good picture quality
- Bad points:
- The software is terrible. It is not user friendly and is inflexible. The search facility cannot be saved so programmes after the after the current epg span cannot be found ie you know a programme will be on in a couple of weeks so you want to record it but can't because it is not in the currrent epg. All programme searches need to be re-inputted when you do a rescan. If you want to archieve material you need to have a dedicated device. This is stored in a sony format and cannot be edited.
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Confirmed purchase: 16 Dec 2012
David, Manchester Bargain hunter
- Good points:
- Ease of use, Recording Features, Recording quality.
- Bad points:
- Slow to start up, delay between changing stations. Extremely noisy fan.
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Confirmed purchase: 14 Dec 2012
Product Features
| Freeview or Freesat tuner | Freeview |
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| Connections | USB |
| Connections | Ethernet |
| Connections | HDMI |
| Extra functions | Twin Tuner |
| Hard disk capacity (Gigabytes) | 500.0 |
| Upscaling | Yes |
| Number of receivers | 1 |
| Energy Savings Trust feature | No |
| Reception standard | Digital |
| Release date | 2011-02-11 |
Also known as: SONY SVR-HDT500B
Manufacturer's Description
Watch, record and rewind your favourite TV, in stunning HD
Freeview+ HD, 500GB HDD, HDMI®, BRAVIA® Sync, Series Link, EPG, 2xUSB
Record and store TV programmes to watch later, with up to 300 hours of recording time (up tp 125 hours for HD contents)
Watch one channel while recording another, or record two channels at the same time
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Score 9.0/10Confirmed purchase: 26 Nov 2012