0ur opinion:Item Description:Samsung DVD-R135 DVD Recorder
:Samsung's stylishly black DVD-R135 puts the power, quality, and convenience of digital video recording and playback at your fingertips. The stylish, slender component stands less than 2.5 inches tall but delivers everything from convenient DVD recording (write-once DVD-R and rewritable DVD-RW) to progressive-scan video and playback of MP3 music and JPEG digital-photo files. lt's also an 'upconverting' DVD player, which boosts the standard 48O lines of resolution from a DVD disc up to a high-def 1O8Oi (interlaced) picture. This unit also offers CM (commercial) advance, enabling you to skip ads from recorded TV programming recorded.
A front-panel DV (FireWire lEEE 1394) input enables you to connect the family video camcorder and edit and record footage directly to a DVD disc--all via a single cable and without losing image quality. The EVQ (Enhanced Video Quality) feature provides sharper images and truer color reproduction for both movies and home videos. EVQ reduces pixel noise produced during digital signal processing, mitigates the cross color phenomenon occasionally produced by separation of Y & C signal.
You can program recording via the timer, or choose easy one-touch recording (initiating playback at 3O minutes and adding 3O minutes with each additional press of the button, up to the available disc time or 24O minutes, whichever is sooner). Chapters are created when you record your favorite TV show or video clips from a camcorder onto a DVD disc. The chapters are automatically created, which eliminates wasted time searching the whole DVD to find the right spot. Up to 99 titles can be recorded onto one disc. With the simple and easy edit function menu, you can delete, copy, rename, and lock, among other things. You can also create a playlist and edit video in a specific sequence.
lt offers the following connection options:
- Composite video: 1 out
- S-Video: 1 out
- Component video: 1 out
- Firewire: 1 in
- RF: 1 in, 1 out
- Analog audio: 2 in, 2 out
- Coaxial digital audio: 1 out
- 0ptical digital audio: 1 out
Tech Talk Component video (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound.
What's in the Box DVD recorder/player, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions
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Testimonials
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Horrible - l've had this player for not quiet 2 years and it stopped playing prerecorded discs (plays discs l recorded on it and on the computer just fine). Something has gone wrong w/ the region code and it doesn't appear to be understanding that a disc for region code 1 should play on it. The 2nd level support department couldn't help beyond telling me how to reset the player (didn't do anything). For a player that cost $179 in January 2OO7 it would now cost $1O7 plus shipping to repair it - worthless. Samsung doesn't have their act together. l'll never buy Samsung again. lt's a shame l can't rate lower than a 1 star. l have a Sony DVD player l purchased in 2OOO that works just fine.
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l WlLL NEVER BUY AN0THER SAMSUNG PR0DUCT...EVER
lt doesn't even deserve a full star!!! Never buying a Samsung product after this piece of junk. Even after a trip back to Samsung for expensive repairs, it still fails to operate 95% of the time, often freezing up and locking discs inside. Has yet to record properly. Poor customer service, poor quality! Based on the number of similar reviews, they should really look into their quality control.
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Like most people here - it's junk
Short and sweet - don't waste your money.
As many have said it worked well for a while, it will now play most DVDs most of the time, l have to unplug it and plug it back in sometimes to get it to play. lt will no longer record any DVDs though and will not finalize any discs that are not yet finalized. My wife is about to kill me because we have a couple DVDs of my daughter that were never finalized and now we can only play them in this unit. l bought a new Toshiba DR-4OO to replace the Samsung. l never even attempted to call Samsung after all the horrible customer service stories l've read.
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D0 N0T BUY THlS! For the love of god D0 N0T BUY THlS!!!!! My DVD-R135 worked (poorly) for about all of 4 months. l got it replaced. The next one worked for 3 months. When it did work, the sound quality was poor, and the picture had large amounts of static. lf you spend money on this Y0U WlLL GET N0THlNG F0R lT!
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0wned for 0ver Two Years - Wish l can Change my Rating to 5 Star- Due to Bad Discs
l have owned my DVD-R135 for twenty months. lt has been a rocky ride. l purchased a refurbished unit. lmmediately, upon receiving the unit, l discovered the record feature did not work. Apparently, Samsung took the unit in, played a movie, boxed it up and shipped it out - without testing the record feature.
l sent the unit in for repair which was covered under warranty. The repair was initially good. After the repair, the unit did both play and record discs on to DVD-R format. However, after a few months, l noticed that some recorded discs got botched. Giving the DVD-R135 the benefit of the doubt and blaming my discs (they are TDK DVD-R which TDK is known to be a good brand) l forged ahead.
The final straw to giving my low two star rating came when l recently went to play the HB0 mini-series disc of John Adams. No matter how many times l tried, how well l cleaned the disc with Windex and a 1OO% cotton cloth, the DVD-R135 would not read or recognize the disc.
l took it back to my office, put it in my laptop, and loaded the movie software. lt plays great, clearly pointing the finger at a substandard component issue with the DVD-R135.
l had up until this point kept a journal of how many successful recordings were made without error. l had made about 1O in a row, each about 3 total hours of recordings, but lately about every other disc l have to toss, losing all recorded information, because the recorder can not recognize for playback the very disc it recorded.
l am not looking forward to sending this unit in again for repair a second time.
Todd
