Samsung Multi Format DVD Recorder DVD-R149/XEU

November 20, 2007 | By Doug In DVD Recorders |

Samsung Multi Format DVD Recorder DVD-R149/XEU
Fantastic value dvd recorder from Samsung

Customer Review: Samsung DVD R149/XEU
I have had two examples of this recorder. The first one turned itself off at random when viewing a pre-recorded disc. It wouldn’t record on ram disc using the timer. It would not format ram discs but kept coming up with ‘System error is found’, accompanied by a loud buzzing sound, after exactly 10% of the disc had been formatted. The machine locked up after this and had to be unplugged to reset it.

Hughes direct sent me a replacement. This had almost exactly the same faults. It didn’t turn off as often as the first one. Their technical dept sent me a firmware update which did nothing except cause less loud buzzing when the formatting error came up after 10%.

I shall be contacting Hughes about this shortly. I have to say Hughes have been very easy to deal with and I am sure the matter will shortly be resolved.

Generally picture quality was good, better on the first machine I had but still good on both machines. Remote was good and had lots of easy to use features. It is just a pity about the randon switch off and the inability to timer record on ram disc. It will play ram discs made on my Panasonic recorder.

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