| Customer Reviews: Average Rating: 2.0/5 |
| Works a treat - no problems at all!: Rating: 5/5 |
I've had this recorder for 6 months now and I'm genuinely shocked at all the negative reviews on here!
I use it daily to record programmes from satellite & cable (using the timer) and it has NEVER performed anything other than 100% perfectly! Recorded programs on the HDD are just perfect - I've yet to see ONE glitch!
The item itself looks GORGEOUS and it's EXTREMELY quiet. Menu system / user interface is very intuitive and I've used the DVD to play discs regularly without any issues.
I don't use the DVD recorder regularly - but have used it a couple of times with Philips DVD+RW discs and not had a problem.
This has been a great buy for me (picked it up brand new for around £50). I would say if you are looking for a SD HDD recorder and you don't want Sky+, you CANNOT GO WRONG with this!! |
| I must have bought a different machine to the other reviewers!!!: Rating: 5/5 |
My husband wanted to replace his Lite On dvd recorder (which was a nightmare from start to finish) with a new one. After much reading of reviews I decided to go with the Samsung despite all the negative reviews of which the most common was the manual was unreadable and set up was a nightmare. Now considering our experience with the Lite On "manual" and many hours of trying to work out how to use it we decided we could probably cope with the Samsung. Good price and excellent specs were the decider.
So with intrepidation we opened the box and looked at the incomprehensible manual only to find an easy step by step , easy lay out with content menu ......I can only think that people find reading manuals quite difficult these days.
Difficult to set up? .......after half an hour it was up and running. It was not the machine that took half an hour but where to plug in the scarts, leads etc. So far my husband has recorded onto disc, onto the hard drive , played dvd's. Picture quality is 10/10 sound quality 10/10 ease of use 10/10 love it. AND we do not have an LCD tv just a bog standard terrestial tv next on the list is an LCD tv and that will be Samsung.
I can't comment on freeview we did not want it, but had no choice to have it .... we have digital and so far no problem. We have no issue with time to load, or the "slow " remote ...... I think we must have a different model( we definitely don't) or people are way too impatient !!!!!
Love this machine........... if you want to record, play dvds,etc it is great and an absolute bargin.
Make your own mind uo , if you hate it you can always send it back.
Ps I don't work for Samsung.
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| Frustrating when recording off camcorder: Rating: 1/5 |
| I thought this DVD recorder player was the business, but today it has frozen three times on me when making a DVD from a camcorder via the DV lead. Last one was a 57 minute tape, DVD it did at 54 minutes. Have been onto the internet and this is a regular problem. My advice, stay well clear.......No t recommended |
| Avoid at all costs !: Rating: 1/5 |
Samsung did have a reputation for good products, but after using this monstrosity for quite some time I feel its only right to warn others to avoid it at all costs. It is uneccessarily slow, unreliable poorly designed and just pretty awful to live with.
Firstly the freeview part of this player is the worst I have ever used. The guide is painfully slow and so frustrating to use, you feel like launching the whole unit out the window.
The recording is unreliable at best, recording when IT feels like it, and if it does manage to record something invariably it will cut it short (with no way to manage the amount of time it leaves at the end of a program).
The DVD is "OK" but will freeze up once every now and again just when you think all is going well. That's funny just as I am writing this review the unit has frozen up again just watching freeview!
I can't be bothered to list anymore bad points of this totally rubbish product.
Avoid at all costs, you have been warned.
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| Awful user interface - don't buy this: Rating: 1/5 |
I have been struggling to get an HDD recorded programme to play back for 8 months and have failed despite spending over an hour on the customer help line.
This recorder may have outstanding technical specifications, but it does not work. The handbook doesn't refer to playing back recordings. |
