| Samsung DVD-V8500 DVD/VCR Combo | 
| Brand: Samsung
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:   (24 reviews)
Sales Rank: 22680
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.5
Dimensions (in): 18 x 9.4 x 3
MPN: DVD-V8500
Model: DVD-V8500
UPC: 036725685000
EAN: 0036725685000
ASIN: B0009A2L4Y
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| Features:
| • | Space-saving, multiformat DVD/VCR combo; measures 18 x 3 x 9.4 inches (WxHxD) | | • | Plays DVD movie, CD audio, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-R/RW, MP3, WMA, and JPEG | | • | Multiformat memory card reader, compatibility includes Secure Digital, Memory Stick, Compact Flash, and more | | • | Connections: 2 composite inputs, 1 composite output, 1 S-Video output | | • | Optical and coaxial digital audio output for Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound |
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Product Description
The company has added to this best-in-class Combo line with DVD-V8500 player. The DVD-V8500 also supports a 10-in-2 multi-card reader for digital photo viewing that accepts virtually every popular format of memory card, including SD, Compact Flash, Mini SD, XD, MMC, Smart Media, Memory Stick and Memory Stick Pro.
Amazon.com Product Description
The Samsung DVD-V8500 combo unit lets you enjoy both your VHS and DVD libraries with one component. The hi-fi VCR offers MTS decoding, four video heads, three VHS recording settings (SP, SLP, and auto), auto tracking adjustment, and quasi S-VHS playback. The DVD-V8500 also offers a wide spectrum of playback formats, including DVD movie, CD audio, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-R/RW, MP3, WMA, and JPEG. Additionally, you can view photos directly from your digital camera's memory card with the multi-format card slot on the front of the unit, which is compatible with Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Duo, SmartMedia, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital (SD), CompactFlash, Microdrive, xD-Picture Card, and miniSD. It also includes front-panel AV inputs, enabling you to connect a digital video camcorder for easy recording to VHS tape. The DVD-V8500 also offers 10-bit 54-MHz DAC for high-quality video recording and playback. It provides optical and coaxial digital audio outputs for Dolby Digital and DTS multi-channel surround sound, as well as a selectable progressive-scan mode for smoother video with HD-compatible TVs via the component video output (480i/480p for DVD only). It also offers the following video connections: - Composite AV (RCA) In: 2
- Composite AV (RCA) Out: 1
- S-Video Out: 1
- RF: input and output (tuner pass through only)
What's in the Box
DVD player/VCR combo, remote control (with batteries), power cable, AV cable, printed operating instructions
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 DVD failed after 8 months October 23, 2006
After about 8 months this unit simply refused to play any DVDs although it will still play audio CDs and VCR tapes. The customer support at Samsung, once I found the right phone number, was very polite and helpful and with the 1 year warranty we're able to send the unit in for repair... although labor and shipping is not covered under the warranty and will end up costing us over 1/3 the product price to get it repaired. Aside from the premature failure the unit did perform acceptably and remote control was easy to program and use with our television from a different manufacturer. However, considering the failure and the cost of repair I don't see us purchasing anything from Samsung in the near future.
 Stay away from this junk June 16, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This thing's DVD player quit on me in the first few weeks. I returned it for repairs, had to pay the shipping. Came back and worked OK for 3 more months and the DVD player quit again. VCR seemed to work fine. The DVD player quality is not good even with component video cables. I recommend not buying this trash. Right now a rental DVD is stuck in this player and i am trying to get it out.
Samsung DOES NOT CARE. June 15, 2006
This unit was a piece of junk. The DVD player quit reading DVDs only a couple months after purchase. I contacted Samsung and they said all you have to do is pay for shipping of the unit to SASCOA, E. Providence R.I. (my nearest repair center)and they will repair the unit and ship it back. There the unit sits. They don't pay for return shipping - you do (they didn't even tell me it was repaired - but they did tell me when I called that "Wow, I'm surprised they haven't sold it on you, they're authorized to do that if it sits for more than two weeks". Samsung didn't care who told me that I only had to pay for one way shipping, SASCOA is very unprofessional and they pretty much told me they don't care about the consumer, they work for Samsung. I will never buy a Samsung product again, no matter what the reviews. Customer service is poor at best. They only want your money, not your return for more products.
 Nothing Spectacular, But it Does the Job March 26, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Some background on my basic TV usage: I'm still living in the dark ages in many aspects... I still record TV shows on VHS, I don't get cable, and I have a TV which requires manual channel/volume changing (no remote).
I've been using the product for a few months now, and here are my findings:
* I'm perfectly satisfied with the quality of the DVD player and the VCR. No complaints here, but I obviously don't have a fancy entertainment system, so it doesn't take much to please me in this department.
* I was disappointed to find that I can only tape up to 7 shows at a time through the VCR. It's forced me to drastically cut back on my TV-watching, which is not a bad thing, but it does seem to be a silly limitation and is one of my biggest complaints about the product.
* The user interface is fairly straightforward and standard. The biggest pitfall I've found is again related to recording TV shows: Rather than being able to use the number keys on the remote to enter days, times, stations, etc., you have to use the up/down buttons, which can make it extremely painful to program something in. Not the smartest design choice on their part.
* I tend to watch TV through the VCR (so I can use a remote, which my TV is lacking), but it seems that this product wasn't designed with that in mind. Some examples of this: There is no way to mute the sound -- or change the volume at all -- from the VCR (so I can't do this via the remote), there is no way to quickly toggle between two TV stations (to go back and forth between two shows with the push of a button), and the power automatically goes off after recording a TV show. The remote apparently works with compatible TV's (which mine is not), so this may be less annoying for others, but even then you'd have to switch between DVD/VCR and TV on the remote in order to do some basic operations that the DVD/VCR product should be able to do on its own. The inability to change the volume is probably my biggest complaint overall.
All in all, I am satisfied with the product, but it certainly hasn't left me complaint-free due to the shortcomings of some of the basic-use operations that I tend to perform on a regular basis.
Quit working and I didn't like it even when it did work March 26, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I could tell that this was junk right out of the box. I had purchased a samsung combo (DVD-V1000) in 2001 which served me very well for 4+ years so I thought I woudl replace it with another Samsung. But this machine did not live up to expectations. It did not play DVDs I created myself or MP3 cds, etc. Another thing that ticked me off is that my SAMSUNG TV remote would not control this thing! I would expect that if it's the same manufacturer, the remotes would be compatable. No such luck. Then it would sometimes not recognize regular movie DVDs at all, and eventually would not play any movie. It just stuck at the "Loading" screen. Stay away from this DVD player and Samsung DVD players in general. I do love my Samsung DLP TV though.
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