Samsung DVD-HR755 - 250Gb Hard Drive DVD Recorder - Multi Format With HDMI Input
Samsung DVD-HR755 - 250Gb Hard Drive DVD Recorder - Multi Format With HDMI Input
Samsung DVD and 250GB HDD Recorder
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Samsung DVD and 250GB HDD Recorder
Used Price: ?200.00
Customer Review: Defective by design
This Samsung product has many great features. HDMI, HD compliant, 250GB and so on. Yet it will have you cursing at the device within hours of starting to use it. When programs are to be recorded using the timer capability, the device must be turned off. If you are playing something at the time, it will not record. So you must switch it off, let it start recording, then go back to what you were watching before, which naturally it has forgotten about leading to irritating searches. Then when the timed recording finishes, it switches off the device, regardless of what you were doing. It is intensely annoying to use. Not a good feature in a TV recorder. Other systems do not have this design flaw. One can only speculate as to why Samsung designers might consider this a sensible feature as it so obviously is not.
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Amazon Price: ?183.24
Customer Review: Very nasty product
I have had this machine about 6 months and it’s just about to go back to be repaired again. Even when it’s working, it’s so painfully slow that you end up pressing the button several times thinking it’s not doing anything. It takes about 2 minutes to warm up for a start. The most annoying thing for Sky/cable viewers is that it never remembers to default to the scart socket on startup. So you have to go through an agonisingly slow process of selecting ALL the other possible inputs in turn before being able to select the main scart input. Pretty irritating when you have to do that every time. Frankly it’s rubbish and Philips should be ashamed of themselves. I’ve had one of their microwaves for 20 years and the bulb hasn’t even gone yet. Something’s gone a bit wrong with their quality since then it seems.
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Amazon Price: ?64.99
Customer Review: Poor Player and very Loud
Ihave had this DVD player for 3 months and it has broken down the Lcd screen wont display anymore so it is impossible to turn on. It is also very noisy even when its not turned on the fan goes inside all the time and becomes annoying when trying to watch TV I eneded up turning it off at the mains when not using!!!! However when you where using it the record quality was good and playback was good
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Forget about the running out of recording space. With the built in160GB HDD( Hard Disk Drive) you may record up to 198 hours ( SLPmodes) of quality video programs on it. The coexistence of theoptical disc drive and the built-in HDD on LVW-5045 doesn
Used Price: ?128.30
Customer Review: Nooooooooooo- don’t do it……
Fantastic machine for a couple of months when did everything it said on box, then problems began- dvd player stopped recording, then didn’t want to play dvd’s that had been recorded on it, then stopped playing original feature film dvd’s, even though a ?20 dvd player in the kids room played everything we threw at it, then hard drive crashed and we lost all the kids programmes that had slowly been built up on it, hard drive still worked but has crashed another two times losing everything on drive and finally died the other week when it came up with a fatal error message- built in hard disk utilities within the liteon don’t work! If you want one of these don’t waste too much money- I paid ?250 for mine - absolute waste of money! Don’t pay more than ?20 and then don’t expect it to last for long this is a disposable item… By the way the hdd has been ripped out chucked in an icy box and now works fine when attached to my pc- although all the recordings had gone- so couple of quid retrieved there.
Customer Review: Loved it when it worked!
I bought this back in ‘05 for 1p short of ?300 and at first it did everything it said on the box, apart from the odd crash which I could live with. BUT… after about a year of use it started to get fussy about the blank DVD’s it wanted to record on, just spitting them out with ‘Invalid Disc’ errors. Then it decided it didn’t really want to record on any discs… DVD+R,-R,+RW,-RW. I bought various cake boxes of blank DVD’s including Ritek and Taiyo Yuden (not cheap), both on the Lite-on recommended disc list and generally regarded as ‘bullet proof’. I could just about live with this as the hard drive is large and I also have a PC to copy discs and export DV to. However, now it doesn’t read DVDR’s either! It plays the odd bought DVD but anything recorded on a DVDR just doesn’t work. I’ve updated the firmware but… nothing. So now what I’m left with is a machine that just records off the TV. I’ve had to buy a separate DVD player to sit on top and I have my freeview box sitting on top of that. Not the neatest set-up to have stuck under your TV. What annoys me most is while it worked it was great and I bought my dad the Lite-On 5025 80Gb model for his birthday. But even after very light use and infrequent recording to DVDR, his is now starting to suffer from the same problems I had. Fortunately it is JUST inside the guarantee so will be going back and hopefully will get repaired first time. If you’re considering a lite-on product I would seriously think again. I’ve spent close to ?500 on these two recorders in little over 2 years and they’re both on their last legs.
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