Samsung DVD-VR335 DVD Recorder

This is supposed to be the killer application

Strengths: Multiple recording formats. 2x Fast Forward plays audio at same pitch, but 2x.

Weaknesses: Inability to control the VCR for dubbing to DVD.

Summary: The idea is to convert VHS tapes to DVD. I could not queue up the tape on the VCR. It should have VCR still with frame advance forward and frame advance reverse. Bad tracking on VCR slow leaves noise on screen. I brought to back to the due to that and the fact that what it recorded would not play on other DVD players. The idea is to take family movies/tapes and make many copies available to family members. This also fails.

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Not Recommended For Home Theater

Strengths: High quality recordings.

Weaknesses: Stupid, annoying error messages that cannot be gotten rid of. Tends to crash with DVD+RW disks.

Summary: This recorder has many excellent features and the recodings I made with it played beautifully on other players (after finalizing). BUT if you want to have the up-converting to 720p or 1080i feature ALONG WITH 5.1 AUDIO then an annoying in-your-face error message saying "HDMI Audio not supported" pops up in the center of the screen for several seconds every time you move around on the disk (like changing chapters, etc.). It 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 2.0 PCM audio and lose your 5.1 surround or not use the HDMI output and stay at 480p.

What's so frustrating is that the unit WILL supply 5.1 audio out of one of its other jacks along with the HDMI video - it just bugs you constantly with this stupid message if you do that.

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.

I 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!

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Samsung DVD-VR335

Strengths: Haven't encounterd any

Weaknesses: Poor DVD record quality. Poor VCR record quality. Doesn't play tapes recorded on other vcr's very well.

Summary: Poor dvd record quality. Get better looking picture from a standalone VCR recorded at the slowest speed. Poor VCR record quality too. Sent the deck in, under warranty, for service and if any thing the quality is worse than it was when I first used it.

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Just what I was looking for

Strengths: DVD+/-R, Divx, HDMI, one touch recording

Weaknesses: little pricey, but you get what you pay for

Summary: Got this for my dad to archive all his old VHS tapes. He just got a new 50" plasma so he wanted something with HDMI. The Divx is an added bonus feature. This burns to all DVD media. A little pricey, but well worth the money. The one touch recording is very simple. My dad, who is electronically challenged, doesn't have any problem. I would recommend this product.

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