Sony RDRGX315 DVD Recorder
Recorder and Remote Problem
I bought Sony RDRGX 315 three days ago and it gives me a lot of head ache. The remote has a serious malfuntion problem. If you press record button and press pause right away, the pause sign show in the display panel but the recording process keep recording. It doesn't pause the recording process as it should and if you press pause again, the recording process is interrupted alittle bit and then keep continue to record. However, the pause sign in the display panel is turned off this time. In order for the pause sign to work properly, you have to press record button & then wait for about 3 or 4 second before you press the pause button.  The second problem is that when I press pause botton in stop mode, the display panel switching from time display mode to line 2 mode at random.  The 3rd problem that I have is that after I insert any type of dvd into the recorder and press the stop botton after the disk loading process finished, the recorder did not stop.  The spinning motor keep spinning the disk for 5 minutes before it actually stop.  This is horrible.  At the begining I thought that motor has blown, but after several attemp with different type of dvd and movies it seems that it was design that way. 5 minutes in order to stop spinning is unacceptable. <br /> <br />The recorder has a nice menu and some other function.  However, the image is degraded so bad in EP 4 hrs and loger mode.  The volume is lost 50% in imput stereo mode. But if you choose main/sub in input mode, you will get a better volume ( about 80% of the original).  My VHS can do better than this.  I am so dissappointed with this recorder and I will return it in the next couple days. <br /> <br />Since this is a recorder, I think Sony should make an optical or coaxal and better yet the component input. That way, the recorder will produce an excellent quality as it should.  I like this product, but so many thing has gone wrong. So please don't buy.