Samsung DVD VR330

One of the reasons I bought this unit was primarily to archive on to DVD my old VHS tapes - an ideal way to magically free up some storage space and make those bulky old VHS cassettes disappear. Apart from this I also needed a decent DVD player/recorder. You won't be able to transfer any copy-protected films; at least I haven't yet found a way to do it, so it's unlikely you'll eliminate your VHS library entirely. Like most Samsung products the VR330 is sleekly designed in a black finish and looks the part. DVD and VHS playback and Recording Setting up the DVD was fairly straight forward connecting it to your TV via a Scart lead. DVD performance was ...  Read the complete review

I've had this for about 6 month now, and over all am not very impressed. It was cheap and I suppose you get what you pay for. Often the whole thing will freeze, and need several on and offs to unfreeze, pretty annoying when you are watching something! The recording is very hit and miss. Mostly recording to DVD is fine, quality great. Then occasionally for no apparent reason, it simply won't record. A few weeks ago it recorded perfect picture but no sound at all! Then it is back to great again! Video recording is fine, but play back sometimes weird as the tracking button over does it, and it jumps all the time until you manually set the ...  Read the complete review