Sony SLV-SE230 Silver Mono Video Recorder Sony ( 24 March, 2003 ) Electronics Our Price : £ 74.99 Prices subject to change. This item is not in stock or has been discontinued.

Good

Got this as a Christmas present and Im very impressed. Well built and great performance for the price. It is very good for recording and the playback is fantastic. If you have a sony television and it is quite new you can use the video remote as the television remote aswell,if you have the right remote and television. It also has video-plus which is a great feature. One of the features that i like is that you can play it in slo-mo. The remote has the feature to eject which is good if you are lazy. It also has long-play and short-play(long-play means that you can record double the amount on a tape, short-play meaning normal which gives you a better recording quality) It is very easy to use and I would recommened it to anyone looking for a decent video player, but look around first... You might get a better deal.

Good but over priced

I have had my RioVolt 250 for nearly a year now. I brought it because I wanted to listen to my MP3 collection but didnt like the idea of memory cards as they are expensive and store very little (compared to a CD). The features on this player are superb. There are many things you can adjust and if you go to Rios website and update the firmware you can add a few extra features. I use it mainly in the car and it rarely skips. All in all a great MP3/WMA/CD player. I would have given it 5 stars but there are a few things to be aware of. First is the sound quality. If you have a decent car stereo this isnt a problem. But when listening through headphones the sound is very flat and is nothing to do with low bit rates on MP3 tracks! Is comparable to buying a very cheap CD player. Even adjusting the graphic equaliser and adding "bass boost" doesnt do anything much to the sound. This is on MP3 AND ordinary audio CDs. If you get a chance play your favorite CD in a Sony CD walkman then in this and you will hear the difference. Secondly the battery power isnt as good as expected. With the supplied rechargable batteries it will last about 5-7 hours (assuming you do not keep skipping tracks or turning it on and off as this uses a lot of power). Good features and range of formats, but poor sound quality and high price. If you want excellent sound quality stay away! If you want lots of features and will use it mainly in the car hooked up to a good car stereo, it is excellent!

Radio could be better; Real software is a waste of time

I bought this partly because one of the reviews on here said that radio reception was really good. This has not been my experience so far, where I live in North London the local pirates seem to be all I can get on this radio. I have three other FM radios which have no problem picking out the legit stations clearly. It seems the Rio Volts tuner is especially poor at picking out stations on a crowded dial. The other thing thats been a disaster is the RealJukebox software thats supplied. When I installed this from the CD, the program informed me that it was going to remove the RealOne player I had installed, which it did. Then on running RealJukebox it said that it was out of date and wouldnt work properly and that I needed to download an update, which turned out to be the RealOne player... unbelievable... To add insult to that it left me with the same free version of RealOne that I had had before, as opposed to the paid-for version of RealJukebox that came with the Rio. If you do buy this unit, my advice is to not waste time with the Real software and go and get something else from the net (Winamp with Audiograbber is good). So in summary it is good for its primary purpose but dont buy it for the radio and steer clear of the Real software. If you want a radio then it mught be worth waiting a few months for a DAB version.

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