 "Great machine" | 2007-10-09 |
| - Reviewed By G Gonzalez |
| I have had this dvd-vcr combo now for a little over a year and have had no problems. The one drawback is that it takes forever to erase a dvd. The great thing is that you can copy from vhs to dvd which is good because I have over 500 vhs tapes worth keeping and now I can copy them all onto dvd and the process is not long or complicated. I have a dvd recorder with a hard drive that works when it feels like it. That damn thing cost over $600 and it not worth it compared to the Samsung combo. I would recommend the Samsung dvd/vhs combo to anyone. |
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 "Samsung DVDR review" | 2008-07-26 |
| - Reviewed By User: AFH97GF3LFD4R |
Easy programming, clear recordings and a sharp picture through it's
tuner. I already have this recorder and needed a second one and went
out of my way to find it. I have not used the VCR side though. |
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 "Avoid Samsung" | 2008-03-21 |
| - Reviewed By julian666 |
After approximately six months of use, my Samsung DVD-VR330 began having problems reading blank DVD-R media, ejecting them several times before finally detecting them. Soon thereafter, it failed to read blank media as well as all the DVD-Rs I had recorded and finalized on that same recorder. When I called Samsung, the Customer Representative suggested I send the VR330 to Samsung's Repair Center, which would cost $65 in Labor plus the cost of shipping.
Because the discs I had already burned were not perfectly compatible with other DVD brands, I needed a Samsung DVD player, but the cost of repairing the VR330 was over half the cost of the new Samsung DVD-VR357. So I decided to give Samsung another chance and bought the VR357, which had all good reviews at the time. Seven months later, the VR357 started failing in exactly the same way as the VR330. When I again called Customer Service, the rep again denied knowing anything about the problem. In fact, he had the temerity to claim that Samsung had "no known problems whatsoever" with their DVD recorders. Again, the only option was to send the recorder in for "repair" with little hope of solving the actual problem.
As I told the second Samsung rep, I will NEVER buy another product from Samsung. Neither should you. |
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| "Planned Obsolescence or just Garbage?" | 2008-01-19 |
| - Reviewed By readbooks100 |
Like some of the other reviewers, I have been dismayed by the LACK of longevity and reliability of the this project. I have had the project for a little over a year, and now it no longer reads discs. I had the lense cleaned and it STILL DOES NOT READ DISCS!
This product is garbage, like other reviewers have observed, it is nothing more than a 250 dollar VCR.
Don't waste your money on a Samsung VR330, it will start crapping out in a year or less. |
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| "$250 VCR" | 2008-01-14 |
| - Reviewed By snclfe |
The most regrettable electronics purchase I've ever made.
I've had this thing for about 10 months. Initially, performance was sketchy but not abysmal. It would record to almost any format DVD, but only single-layer DVD-R discs recorded in 1 or 2 hour mode played reliably in other players. There was a sync problem between audio and video in recorded discs.
All this is in the past tense because that's what it would do back when it would read discs. Now, it no longer reads anything - blank discs...recorded discs...rented DVDs...new DVDs. I've tried to clean the lens and it's now about 50/50 on pre-recorded discs but beyond that, the DVD drive is pretty worthless. It's essentially just a $250 VCR at this point.
I had a Toshiba DVD player that was still working after 7 years when I replaced it with this. I'll be sure to pick Toshiba over Samsung in the future. |
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 "No problems except..." | 2007-12-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A7UQWN273CYFX |
...the video and sound were never in sync! It's rather annoying when you see someone start to talk and a second later do you actually hear the sound!
This only happens when recording off the TV. Other than that I have had no problems, all discs finalized in a reasonable amount of time. I bought this unit to replace an older Sony DVD recorder which I'm going to hook back up since this one can't record properly. Seems this one is going to get relegated to the spare bedroom where it will have minimum record duties. |
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| "Wish I could rate it 0 stars" | 2007-10-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2C17WDT3KS7CD |
| This unit was purchased by our family in Aug 2006 and it had to be repaired in Oct 06, just over 2 months later, because the DVD tray, regardless of disc present, would just pop right back out and discs wouldn't play. It was repaired under warranty, but now barely a year later, the same problem has occurred. Of course it's no longer in warranty, and I'm stuck with very expensive 14-month-old paperweight. |
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| "Two Bad Recommendations" | 2007-10-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3AIMZEK679974 |
| I bought this machine several months ago. My daughter has the same unit. The VCR section died on her's within three months. The DVD recorder / player on mine died within three months.Same problem on both: rejects the media. This includes any and all disks on my unit. Try something else! |
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| "A huge disappointment" | 2007-09-22 |
| - Reviewed By ssbooks1 |
We purchased the Samsung at Christmas to replace a Sony DVD player and JVC VCR player. Right away, it was clear that the Samsung was not as user-friendly as either of those brands.
The pictographs on the back of the box (for installation) were not intuitive, and the manual did nothing to clear up our confusion. Once we finally got it connected properly, we discovered that the setup for timer recording is a multi-step process and, again, not very intuitive.
The picture quality of the VCR recordings is crummy -- very soft picture for a 4-head VCR. The DVD side worked well until this summer, when it began developing problems. Timer recordings would clear for no reason, home-recorded disks of all types and manufacturers would not play consistently, and finally the DVD drawer began sticking.
Repair of the DVD problems will cost $65 -- a third of what we paid for the device, which seems high given that the built-in tuner will be useless in less than six months.
Instead of getting it fixed, we're heading back to Sony (and paying the dreaded Sony markup). And we're definitely steering clear of any Samsung products in the future. |
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 "I really don't like it" | 2007-09-13 |
| - Reviewed By dwbrant |
We've had this thing for a little over 8 months, and the more I use it, the more I hate it.
Don't get me wrong, it works and everything. It records to DVDRW and/or VHS tapes; however, the recording-to-DVDRW is screwed up -- the audio doesn't synch with the video most of the time when we've recorded a TV show, so it's practically worthless for that function.
It plays DVDs but takes forever to start up, and it takes forever to eject a DVD when I hit the eject button. "forever" being a wait-time of around 45 seconds, when I'm used to the other Samsung DVD player we had ejecting almost immediately upon pressing the button. I don't know what the stupid thing's waiting for!
The VHS player functions as expected, except the image quality kind of sucks for a 4-head VCR.
The user interface (on-screen display) reminds me that I'm using a device engineered by non-English speaking folks -- the English menus and messages suffer from poor grammar, leading to a product that appears to be low-quality. The interface also is not very easy to use.
As I said above, the device functions, just not very well. |
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