samsung dvd-vr375 tunerless 1080p up-converting vhs combo dvd recorder

Rating:
Date: 2008-07-03
Nice up-Scaling
Plays older DVD's perfectly. Only problem I have is playing older VHS tapes ( recorded in the early 80's ) I get alot of stuttering. I understand that this is a common problem with the newer VCR's. So I still need to hook up an older player to copy to DVD,not to happy about that hence the 4 stars.

Rating:
Date: 2008-07-01
Nice equipmet!
Originally seen this at WalMart, but they were out of stock on them and I would have had to wait 4 to six weeks for one to come in. Went to Amazon and got the item in less than five days at a better price. I am real happy with the unit and it does make a difference in standard DVD's.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-27
Compared to Samsung 357 It's a HUGE DOWNGRADE
If I didn't own the earlier model Samsung 357 it would be a 3-4* item based on the other combos I have had (LG/SONY/TOSHIBA). However,I fell in love with the 357 & have been unable to find it for its previous price-this was released & the 357 went up in price $50-100. So I bought this one. These combos die too fast to spend more than $150. I use an HDMI cord/to an LG HDTV/run thru a Samsung Dual tuner DTV satellite DVR. Viewing quality is excellent-recording is another story.

CON (Compared to 357)
*The LP recording is equal to EP quality on the 357 - very poor-blurry for any text on the screen-so if you are keeping DVDs for long term quality recordings you are forced to use more discs since you have half the time per disc.
*it loads slower
*it is extremely loud, when loading it wooshes/stops/ whooshes/stops & whooshes again. The whooshing actually woke up my husband the first few nights I used it.
*Everything you do to a disc viewing menus, loading, removing,etc. everything causes a square to pop up while it registers the information. 357 is a quiet quick load and unload, no time between menus etc.
*When you delete the 1st title on +RW disc, you don't gain the time back-on 357 (and every other +RW recroder I've tried)you can re-record another show in that time frame without deleting the following titles
*When you record on a 4x +RW disc, it reads as dirty when you try to play in any other machine (except for 1 of my 2 phillips players) any higher speed is fine
*You have to go to the menu & then the information pg to find out how much time is remaining on a disc-on 357 you press a button on remote & it shows what record mode you are in & time remaining for each mode.

PRO (compared to 357)
*Much cheaper now that 357 price was raised
*finalizes faster
*It auto formats a blank disc(357 requires going through menu)
*has more settings LSP/SPP/ESP etc. in addition to SP/LP/EP of the 357
*Dividing and editing on +RW is much faster-so slow on 357, I stopped editing out commercials-this is very fast-but not instant like on an LG
*records everything from my DVR to disc, no copyright problems that rquire you to qatch a show or movie right away(357 has no copyright problems either but its something you should know before buying a combo-many are so sensitive you can't record a soap opera.

For anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of using the 357, you'll like it just fine. But the downgrade in quality from the 357 is heartbreakingly obvious and a huge dissappointment - but admittedly better than anything else in the price range.I just hope it doesn't die as fast as the 357-about 18 months-2 years of heavy recording. Perhaps that's why they made a lower quality version-to make it last longer.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-26
Takes time to learn to operate
For a "simple" machine, I found it a little complicated. The directions in the manual are not helpful. In fact, the manual lost me within a few pages. At first I thought I made a mistake buying this machine, but I am finally achieving some mastery over how to operate it. I had to call Samsung technical support twice, but the product works as promised and I am now copying my home VHS tapes to DVD. One negative is that the font on the front of the machine is really hard to read (it is small and pales against the shiny blackness of the device). The font on the remote is even smaller.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-22
See my review for the DVD-VR357...this was even worse!
This was another replacement option I considered when trying to replace my lemon Samsung DVD-VR357 (see my review for that for the full horror story). I figured since this was the same brand and a newer model, at least it would play the discs I recorded on it, and hopefully they had worked some of the kinks out.

Nope. Not only did it not play the DVD-RWs from the VR-357 any better than any of the other machines (in other words, they started stuttering the further you played them on here too), but this machine was even worse! While, to be fair, they did add more recording speeds than the old model, they also deleted some of its most convenient features (selecting a specific start and end point for VCR to DVD dubbing, for example), and this thing could not even make ONE decent recording without flaws! Went back to Circuit City immediately.

Again, I cannot recommend a DVD recorder with a hard drive option, like the Philips DVDR3575H/37 I eventually settled on, over a DVD/VCR combo like this enough. Much more flexibility and editing the titles on the hard drive, then burning them to a regular DVD-R, means the finished discs will not give you compatibility nightmares!

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