0ur opinion:Item Description:Samsung DVD-VR335 DVD Recorder
:Samsung's DVD-VR335 provides the best of both worlds, with the ability to record home movies and TV programming to a wide variety of DVD discs while enabling you to continue playing your vast VHS library. Additionally, the DVD-VR335 is 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. The 4-head VCR also offers a full complement of standard recording and playback options as well as the ability to easily convert VHS tapes to DVD.
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.
To produce an upconverted picture, your high-def TV must have an HDMl connection (and HDCP support)--the 72Op/1O8Oi choice is only available when using the HDMl cable (which is not included). Also note that the DVD-VR335 is not a high-definition DVD player (i.e., not to be confused with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players, which play specially formatted high definition discs), so it will work with your existing DVD library.
lt offers a full menu of DVD recording options, including DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW as well as DVD-RAM discs--a very flexible format that allows you to re-record on the disc up to several thousand times. Additionally, it offers recording compatibility with DVD-/+R discs--enabling you to store up to 8.5 GB of video on these two-sided discs.
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:
- HDMl: 1 out
- 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 HDMl is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV--all over a single cable. HDMl supports standard, enhanced or high definition video, plus multi-channel digital audio on a single cable. lt supports all ATSC formats--standard (SDTV), enhanced (EDTV), and high (HDTV).
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/VCR combo, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions
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Testimonials
Average Buyer Rating:
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lt works, l'll give the designers that. But it's one of the most frustrating pieces of gear l've ever bought...maybe the M0ST frustrating for a unit that works.
The remote is impossible! lt's made up of tiny buttons that require an inordinate amount of pressure to activate, and the remote has to be aimed pretty much straight at the unit to work. With so many excellent remote controls to inspire and educate the designers (such as the TiVo remote) why does anyone still design a remote that's so hard to use?
The basic operations of recording a DVD have many steps and are almost totally non-intuitive. Everything has to be "just so" in order to do something as simple as, say, retitling a recording or finalizing a disc. Even the "one-step" controls don't work intuitively when l try to do something as simple as recording from the built-in VHS deck to the DVD.
l can not imagine that Kun-Hee Lee (the Chairman and CE0 of Samsung) has ever tried to operate this piece of gear. lf he had, he would have fired his engineers, right after tossing this unit into the Han River.
l really hate this unit and regret buying it and look forward eagerly to the day when it dies and l can replace it. But l give the unit two stars because it does work...if you can figure it out (keep the manual handy) and get your fingers around that godawful remote.
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almost all good
l'vw owned a -335 for about 2 months now, and really like it. it features some nice options for the recordings that it makes, like the ability to "split" one show into two (yes, you get ot choose WHERE the split happens).
the only two disappointments that l've founds are (1) it will only record on the free space at the END of the disc. if you have 3 shows on a disc, and erase the first 2 (on an RW disc), you still can't record on the newly freed space. only when you erase the last show on the disc can it recognize the space at the start of disc. in fairness, the manual warned me of this, so it is no suprise. just REALLY inconvinient, it turns out.
and (2), there doesn't seem to be any way to disable automatic time-syncing w/ cable. since the gov't decided to move DST this year, that was quite annoying for a few weeks. the manual suggests nothing for this, but l've gotten reasonable results from having it sync to a non-station. clumsy, but not a deal-killer.
all-in-all, l can happily recommend this unit.
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Works great!
Easy to set up & works great. The remote is a bit confusing at first. Easy one-touch recording to DVD.
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This recorder has many excellent features as described above, but if you want to have the up-converting to 72Op or 1O8Oi feature AL0NG WlTH 5.1 AUDl0 then an annoying in-your-face error message saying "HDMl Audio not supported" pops up in the center of the screen for several seconds. lt can also pop up in the middle of a movie at the layer change. The only way to get rid of this message is to switch to 2.O PCM audio and lose your 5.1 surround or not use the HDMl output and stay at 48Op.
What's so frustrating is that the unit WlLL supply 5.1 audio out of one of its other jacks along with the HDMl video - it just bugs you constantly with this stupid message.
Another smaller annoyance is if you have a DVD that uses different angles then the word "Angle" appears onscreen with no way to remove it.
l have read online that Samsung issued a firmware fix for one of its other units to cancel all on-screen messages (that you have to reset whenever you re-start the unit) but they went ahead and included the message in the VR335 anyway!
Since upconverting was one of the major reasons for choosing the DVD-VR335, l am seriously considering returning it.
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hd up dvd recorder
l had my doudts if the hd up function actually work, but to my suprise it takes a standard dvd makes it appear to be hd. The only thing l notice that l don't care for are TV show played through the unit, the picture size shrinks. The same thing happens with TV recordings. l may have a setting incorrect, l'll contact samsung.
