Sony RDR-VX530 DVD Recorder & VHS Combo Player

by Sony

Product Details

• Item Weight: 15 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 17 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000FMPGLQ
• Item model number: RDR-VX530
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,579 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #60 in Electronics > Televisions & Video > DVD Players & Recorders > DVD Recorders

Product Description

Enhance your home theater experience with the easy-to-use convenience of the RDRVX530 DVD/VCR player. One-touch dubbing makes it simple to archive home VHS tape footage to DVD discs for long-term use, and i.LINK digital interface and Digital8 input simplifies digital recording of home movie footage from a camcorder to a DVD. This compact recorder is designed with +R Double-Layer Disc compatibility for longer recording time. Go ahead and enjoy your multimedia of choice. Whether music, movies or your favorite home recordings, the RDRVX530 DVD/VCR player is designed to perform.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

144 of 150 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Machine, but watch the shipping, August 4, 2006

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This review is from: Sony RDR-VX530 DVD Recorder & VHS Combo Player (Electronics)

The VX530 is a neat machine and works great. It's easy to use and, so far, produces very good results. One-touch dubbing is as easy as it gets as long as nothing is copy protected. I can vouch for this one... it's a winner.
The only thing to watch out for is buying from Amazon's vendors. The one I bought was supplied by, and shipped by, J&R Electronics. The Sony box was packaged only in a plastic bag and was received in damaged condition. Since factory boxes are usually designed for sitting on store shelves and moderate protection, and not shipping cross country, sure enough the unit was also damaged.
Maybe I had a bad day, but I found J&R Electronics not the easiest people to try to return something to. Anyway, since I was under somewhat of a time constraint, I bought one from Best Buy (and got a better price as well... on sale). The new one, of course, works fine and I'm really happy with the VX530.
Bottom line... Great machine, but be a little careful who you buy from.
Since this is a review of the VX530 and not J&R, five stars for the machine... one star for poor packaging.

48 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Won't write DVD-R/16X, November 7, 2006

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Just steppin' - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony RDR-VX530 DVD Recorder & VHS Combo Player (Electronics)

It seemed pretty simple: Drop in your VHS tape, put in a DVD and press the button that said VHS->DVD. 30 minutes later, the tape is done and I go to the menu to finalize the disc. After a few minutes, I get an error saying that the media is unreadable and the disc cannot be finalized. Three DVD-R/16X discs later, I gave up and searched the net. Other people had problems with it recording to DVD-R. Even though the manual says it can handle 16X, I've got new coffee table coasters that shows it doesn't. Plus the menu interface is confusing and the not intuitive.

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I had to see it for myself, March 7, 2007

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C. Pepe (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony RDR-VX530 DVD Recorder & VHS Combo Player (Electronics)

I purchased this unit on 3/7/2007 and returned it the same day. The picture quality is beautiful and it's a Sony, right? Precisely why I returned it. Multiple reviewers complained that the unit will not record from premium cable channels. But I took a chance anyway. I have Cablevision of Long Island, NY and this recorder will not allow a recording to be made from channels such as Starz, Encore, TCM and AMC...it will display a message about copyrighted material. I have a Panasonic and a Samsung dvd recorder....they do just fine on these channels. Sony is notorious for their so called piracy protection designs and if you want to record movies from cable movie channels........absolutely do not buy this recorder!!!