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 Do not buy July 28, 2010
ChristianHD
I am very unhappy with this product. The DVD part of the Samsung DVD VR375 stopped working after about 40-50 hours of use. When I insert a DVD it comes back 'this disc cannot be played or recorded.'
The dubbing from VHS to DVD was a couple seconds off on older VHS tapes; it was like watching one of those kung-fu movies where the dubbing was off. When this product did work, converting recent VHS tapes (2008 or later) to DVD was actually pretty smooth. If you buy it -- and I hope you don't -- but if you do, make sure to get your stuff done quickly before it breaks down.
Phooey July 17, 2010
Cahill (California United States)
After 2 months of use, the dvd section has become inoperable. Where was Samsung's quality control for this unit?
Had I read the enormous number of complaints about this player/recorder before purchasing it, I would have realized the seemingly bargain price for the great features it offers is actually a clue that this is a technically flawed product.
If Samsung decided to take the ethical road, it would offer full refunds to everyone who was fooled into buying this rather unusual paper-weight.
Don't Buy June 27, 2010
badbuy
I bought this for the specific purpose of copying from my TIVO DVR - love that, but you can't share downloads or have a truly permanent record unless you can copy to another medium.
Problems: It's complicated to copy to a DVD from a DVR, but not impossibly so with this machine. That's the good news. The discs also seem to then play okay on other machines. Bad news items: It takes a long time to format a blank DVD disk so that you can record, and a very long time to finalize it. The machine will not infrequently cut out in the middle of a recording, and you don't know that it did until you try it on another player - very tedious to have to recheck each time you cut a disk. Since I don't necessarily want to watch the program again while it's recording, that's a nuisance. When you get to the end of a program on the DVR and want to stop recording and finalize the DVD, oftentimes the machine won't stop, no matter how you try to cut off the recording or just stop it.
And, apparently like a number of other DVD recorders now on the market, it isn't rare for it to just freeze up and nothing works to get it up again except to literally pull the plug - leaving you with a new unformatted coffee coaster disc.
It took a while to figure out that the problem really was with the mechanicals/software of the machine, and not just my lack of geek savvy. When I complained to the salesperson at Best Buy, the recommendation was to buy a Panasonic substitute. Older now and perhaps a little wiser, I researched that on the internet, only to find many of the same problems. Is FUNAI the manufacturer for all brands of these machines?
It lasted less than one year, and made fewer than 25 DVDs... April 19, 2010
James F. Gross Jr. (Michigan)
This DVD/VCR combo recorder is the worst one I've ever owned, and I've owned FIVE since 1999. The firmware upgrade/support is very nearly non-existant, and when you CAN find the support info, the site/page is all "buggy" and keeps shutting down Internet Explorer! This unit has "enlarged"/zoomed the picture to a dimension that is about 2 inches wider and taller than my TV screen, and it will not/cannot be reset for some reason. I'm a huge A/V buff, and love electronics, but this is one unit better left on the shelf when you're looking around for a DVD recorder. DON'T GET RIPPED OFF BY SAMSUNG. This product is TRASH. I'd give it ZERO stars if I could, but Amazon does not allow that.
DVD-VR375 problems April 1, 2010
J. Ahonl
This unit didn't work from day one. Wouldn't play back video without much graphic noise. Wouldn't make DVD's that would play properly in other units. Wouldn't even accept the driver update the company sent me. Throuought this process I ruined numerous DVD's. I spent many hours making sure the connections were in order. (The manual is not easy to read). I spent lots of time checking FAQ's and complying with Samsung suggestions. I was on the phone with Samsung support five or six times. Finally, they told me to mail it in for repair under the warranty. So I mailed it (Cost $25). Now it's back and still has the problem. I guess I will call them back tomorrow.
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