RDR-HXD890 front panel display. This is dim and I need it bright how is this achieved please.

[OLDtimer79]

I bought the RDR-HXD890 second hand, the front panel display is barely readable and I haven't been able to discover how to change it to 'bright lighting' can anyone help please.

[rooobb]

The only options are in the menu settings/Other setting but from the manual it seems you can only switch it on or off... if I remember well on my own RDRHXD870 there should be a dim/bright setting but I don't have it now on hand.

Did you know when you bought it that it will not support DVBT2 once it will be applied allover Europe (I guess in UK too)?

[LightFoot]

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@OLDtimer79 wrote:

I bought the RDR-HXD890 second hand, the front panel display is barely readable and I haven't been able to discover how to change it to 'bright lighting' can anyone help please.

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Hi @OLDtimer79   I don’t know if it helps but have a look at page 141 of your manual. 

https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/res/manuals/3295/32950801M.pdf

[rooobb]

Just checked on my HXD870, that setting just turn off the clock while in standby. There is no option to change the brightness. BTW there is really no really useful info in there that you cannot view onscreen

[Mooly01 · Accepted solution]

The display automatically brightens as you take it out of standby but these were never 'bright' to begin with and now at ten years down the line these fluorescent displays will be showing a lack of emission as well.

As rooobb points out though, there is no vital info displayed there. 

[OLDtimer79]

Thanks everyone, looks as though I will have to continue getting down on my knees to read the display.

[rooobb]

I'm sorry we cannot solve your problem, but really what do you need to read over there? It displays the time when in standby, the tv channel when watching tv and the actual playing time when playing back a title or a DVD, nothing else....

[OLDtimer79]

Hi rooobb (Expert)
Thanks for the information, I am using the machine to record from a camera
12 hours at a time and on playback it would be useful to be able to read
the display easily to approximate the time a particular sequence was
recorded. Thank you for your help. OLDtimer79.