I need some help with my Sony RDR-HX715, I looked around and seen a few threads that point to a solution to my issues but none are detailed enough.

My RDR has been giving me issues for a few months now.


When recording from TVGOS prime time/major Network shows seem to record Ok. but day time shows are hit and miss. One 11 am show never records. It doesn't matter if I use TVGOS or try to manually enter the time and channel. All I get is what I call the "death Pause". The unit enters the pre-record mode Red dot with Red Pause and just stays there for the hour it is scheduled to record. If you attempt to stop it from recording it indicates that it has stoped, but remains locked until the hour is over, or you power the RDR off and then back on.

another issue is that sometime it will start recording on time but does not stop. It will record for 3 hours and 5 Minutes.

I've called Sony and they told me to reboot the RDR by unplugging it for 5 minutes and then using easy setup. This has not helped.

I've tried using Match (my local Cable company) and no-Match, with generally the same results.

It seems that once it performs incorrectly it can not be cleared. It does the same ting over and over. This makes me think the Non-volital Memory is corrupted.

I've seen threads about new firmware updates and clearing the non-volital memory, both options seem logical as fixes for these issues but I can't find anything specific on how to do these.

Any other advise short of throwing this RDR out the window would be apreciated.