Sony RDRHX715 DVD Recorder
Using the RDRHX715 with an old TV
I just wanted to let anybody out there who, like me, has an old tv that you cannot set this machine up like a VCR. Although it has coaxial in from antenna and out to TV connections it turns out that it does not have a built in RF modulator like any VCR you might buy has. Not knowing this I tried to hook it up like the instruction book says and got absolutely nothing on screen. Four people from Sony's technical support told me that the machine and the two others I exchanged it for were defective. Fortunately a very nice salesperson at a different store than where I had bought it told me that the problem could be solved by buying a separate RF modulator and hooking it up through that. You had to connect the cable box to the recorder and then out to the modulator and then to the TV. Additionally you have to hook up the red, yellow and red cable supplied from the outputs of the recorder into the inputs on the modulator. Then everything works great. The biggest problem thus is that the technical support people didn't know something this simple. (They do  now because I called them with this information after the fact). <br />The machine itself works magnificently for my uses. I have found that not using the TV Guide is the way to go as manual setting of the timer gives you access to all of your stations even with a digital cable box (the recorder works great at changing the stations for you). <br />I would strongly recommend this machine as long as you realize that compared to what's out there this one does a lot.