Sony RDR-VX530 DVD Recorder & VHS Combo Player

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.

If I could give no stars I would!!The recorder/player worked well for about a year and then RIGHT AFTER THE WARRANTY EXPIRED it started acting up. It has destroyed at least 200 DVDs that had content on them. All of a sudden the disk becomes not readable anymore and and could not play. ALL OF THR RECORDRD DATA is then lost. In addition, the tray won't open if there is no disc in it., and sometimes even with one it. I have to get a knife and manually turn the release gadget.I am EXTREMELY disappointed with the product because Sony products are usually good. I do not recommend this product to to anyone and encourage everyone to stay away from it!!!

Works exactly as described - quite simple to use although it doesn't seem to like DVD-R disks much. I am now using DVD-RW which work very well. The packing job was not good and I had my doubts that it had survived, but nothing seems to be wrong with it. If you do ship anything else, please invest in some bubble wrap and/or packing peanuts or at least a lot more crushed newspaper. It's more a tribute to Sony than to you that everything still works.

Dvd plays nice. have had no luck dubbing old vhs to Dvd as of yet. STILL trying lots of old Dvd 90 to 95 dvds

When I finally got around to unpacking this piece of garbage, I realized that not only does the power button not work, there is no remote which is needed to operate many functions, and it has one of my video cassettes trapped inside. This seller is a fraud. Do not buy anything from them. It said good condition but used. It is banged up and does not work.

I found the product to be easy to use and for the price a very good bargain.

Came quickly. In great condition.works well

I loved this unit 15 years ago when I purchased my 1st unit. Unfortunately, wear and tear took its toll. Even after several repairs my first unit "gave up the ghost." This company has successfully revived the unit I first worked with and I am more than pleased. Note: I have only had 3 weeks of use at this point; however I am MORE than pleased. I hope this unit works for years! The same company is welcome to call me if they have another refurbished unit as I will be happy to purchase it as well (859-817-9144).