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| Samsung DVD-R135 DVD Recorder | 
| Brand: Samsung
Category: CE
Buy New: $179.99
Buy New/Used/Refurbished from $65.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  (47 reviews)
Sales Rank: 29148
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.2 x 0
MPN: DVD-R135
Model: DVD-R135
UPC: 036725601550
EAN: 0036725601550
ASIN: B000EHODYI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Ultra-slim DVD player/recorder; measures 17 x 2.3 x 9.6 inches (WxHxD) | | • | Upconverts standard DVD 480p resolution to high-definition 720p and 1080i | | • | Records to DVD-R/RW discs; plays CD-R/RW discs and MP3, JPEG files; connects to video camcorders for easy editing/recording | | • | Connections: 1 component out, 1 composite out, 1 S-Video out, 1 Firewire in, 1 RF in, 1 RF out | | • | Digital optical and digital coaxial audio output for home theater surround sound |
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Product Description
Whether recording shows from an HDTV or transferring footage from a camcorder, Samsung's Hi-Def Conversion DVD Recorder captures and maintains every visual and audio detail. DVD-RW/-R format recording starts immediately with the "1 sec." Quick Recording feature. Samsung's enhanced Video Quality assures crisper, more lifelike pictures.
Amazon.com Product Description
Samsung's stylishly black DVD-R135 puts the power, quality, and convenience of digital video recording and playback at your fingertips. The stylish, slender component stands less than 2.5 inches tall but delivers everything from convenient DVD recording (write-once DVD-R and rewritable DVD-RW) to progressive-scan video and playback of MP3 music and JPEG digital-photo files. It's also an "upconverting" DVD player, which boosts the standard 480 lines of resolution from a DVD disc up to a high-def 1080i (interlaced) picture. This unit also offers CM (commercial) advance, enabling you to skip ads from recorded TV programming recorded. A front-panel DV (FireWire IEEE 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. You can program recording via the timer, or choose easy one-touch recording (initiating playback at 30 minutes and adding 30 minutes with each additional press of the button, up to the available disc time or 240 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. It offers the following connection options: - 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
- Optical digital audio: 1 out
Tech Talk
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 recorder/player, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
 It's not a DVD player, it's a bookend. December 26, 2008
Horrible - I've had this player for not quiet 2 years and it stopped playing prerecorded discs (plays discs I recorded on it and on the computer just fine). Something has gone wrong w/ the region code and it doesn't appear to be understanding that a disc for region code 1 should play on it. The 2nd level support department couldn't help beyond telling me how to reset the player (didn't do anything). For a player that cost $179 in January 2007 it would now cost $107 plus shipping to repair it - worthless. Samsung doesn't have their act together. I'll never buy Samsung again. It's a shame I can't rate lower than a 1 star. I have a Sony DVD player I purchased in 2000 that works just fine.
I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER SAMSUNG PRODUCT...EVER November 28, 2008
It doesn't even deserve a full star!!! Never buying a Samsung product after this piece of junk. Even after a trip back to Samsung for expensive repairs, it still fails to operate 95% of the time, often freezing up and locking discs inside. Has yet to record properly. Poor customer service, poor quality! Based on the number of similar reviews, they should really look into their quality control.
Like most people here - it's junk September 9, 2008
Short and sweet - don't waste your money.
As many have said it worked well for a while, it will now play most DVDs most of the time, I have to unplug it and plug it back in sometimes to get it to play. It will no longer record any DVDs though and will not finalize any discs that are not yet finalized. My wife is about to kill me because we have a couple DVDs of my daughter that were never finalized and now we can only play them in this unit. I bought a new Toshiba DR-400 to replace the Samsung. I never even attempted to call Samsung after all the horrible customer service stories I've read.
A quick way to burn your money August 27, 2008
DO NOT BUY THIS! For the love of god DO NOT BUY THIS!!!!! My DVD-R135 worked (poorly) for about all of 4 months. I got it replaced. The next one worked for 3 months. When it did work, the sound quality was poor, and the picture had large amounts of static. If you spend money on this YOU WILL GET NOTHING FOR IT!
Owned for 20 Months - Rocky Road August 5, 2008
I have owned my DVD-R135 for twenty months. It has been a rocky ride. I purchased a refurbished unit. Immediately, upon receiving the unit, I discovered the record feature did not work. Apparently, Samsung took the unit in, played a movie, boxed it up and shipped it out - without testing the record feature.
I sent the unit in for repair which was covered under warranty. The repair was initially good. After the repair, the unit did both play and record discs on to DVD-R format. However, after a few months, I noticed that some recorded discs got botched. Giving the DVD-R135 the benefit of the doubt and blaming my discs (they are TDK DVD-R which TDK is known to be a good brand) I forged ahead.
The final straw to giving my low two star rating came when I recently went to play the HBO mini-series disc of John Adams. No matter how many times I tried, how well I cleaned the disc with Windex and a 100% cotton cloth, the DVD-R135 would not read or recognize the disc.
I took it back to my office, put it in my laptop, and loaded the movie software. It plays great, clearly pointing the finger at a substandard component issue with the DVD-R135.
I had up until this point kept a journal of how many successful recordings were made without error. I had made about 10 in a row, each about 3 total hours of recordings, but lately about every other disc I have to toss, losing all recorded information, because the recorder can not recognize for playback the very disc it recorded.
I am not looking forward to sending this unit in again for repair a second time.
Todd
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