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Summary: Returned - not a happy camper
Review: On the plus side - This unit is attractive, has a lot of nice features and a good price. Set up was easy and on screen commands are logical. The VCR worked well.Reason for return - In addition to annoying pixelation, the first rental DVD jammed twice during regular play. The disc had minor(?) fingerprint marks. After a good cleaning, it performed OK. I made sure the next 2 rentals were cleaned ahead of time. I still had pixelation on both. "0" for three did not seem like a very good percentage. I'm now looking at the Panasonic PV-D4762. Nice features, good reviews. Higher price.
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Summary: A Solid Combo Unit as far as I'm Concerned...
Review: I did a lot of research before purchasing a DVD player (well, before asking for one for Christmas...) and once I decided I wanted a combo DVD/VCR (space/aesthetic reasons primarily), the Samsung V-2000 came up a lot. Consumer Reports gave it the number-one rating, so I came here and to bizrate.com to see what people were writing. I was a little concerned about so many negative reviews (noisy machine, etc.) so I asked salespeople at a couple of reliable retail outlets that both said the machine was selling really well and that they weren't being returned/exchanged. So far, I love the machine - the quality of the picture/sound on the DVD and VCR is more than satisfactory, it looks great, and I trust Samsung - it's owned by Sony, after all (at least that's what I was told).
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Summary: Declined to a lemon
Review: Just as many other reviewers have stated the DVD portion worked fine albeit loud early on; then it slowly got worse. I started to have the same problems as other people have stated where the DVD would pixilate in the middle of a movie. Eventually it would not even load a DVD just give the bad DVD error on screen. I took it to Best Buy and the hooked it up to one of their TVs with no problem. I took it home and hooked it up before putting it back in the entertainment center and it worked. Inside the entertainment center it crapped out again. It maybe a heat issue. That would explain the DVD going out half way through a movie, just as it was heating up. I dunno. Now I'm stuck with $160 paperweight.
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Summary: All good but mp3s
Review: I bought this primarily as a replacement for a deceased Mitsu VCR, and wanted the mp3 function of the DVD deck. Turns out that, while it will indeed play mp3s just fine (and for me did a good job with both DVDs and recording and playback of tapes - exceptionally good with black level set to 'high' for DVD playback), it will not allow you to play mp3 tracks in a random or shuffle mode. You can program 60 tracks, but since a CD-R can hold over 175 tracks, this ain't much help. My research so far seems to show that only the JVC combo unit will randomize mp3 tracks (at least it appears the Panasonic and GoVideo models won't). This seems a silly oversight - with a couple hundred tracks on a disc, without random or shuffle play, you have to listen to (for example on my disc) 10 Alicia Keys songs, then 7 Al Green, then 11 Avalanches, then ... well you get the idea - not necessarily the way I want to listen. So, I'll replace this with the JVC, I guess - too bad too, I liked this unit a lot.
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Summary: Excellent Piece of Equipment
Review: I honestly don't know what people are complaining about. I brought the unit home, and had it out of the box and installed in less than five minutes. Plug it in, plug the cable into the coaxial port on the back of a television, and you're up and running. Since that time, I've gone through three movies, one of which was two hours long, and the other two an hour and a half each, for a total of six straight hours of viewing. I've paused, skipped chapters, pause-stopped (stopped it, and when I hit "Play", it started right back up at the spot I stopped it at), and through all of this, it hasn't given me a single problem. I didn't hear the high-pitched whine some complained about from the DVD player. The remote is intuitive and easy to memorize (great for fumbling around in the dark of your living room to figure out what button does what), and operated flawlessly. This is an excellent unit, and I'm happy I bought it. As always, caveat emptor, and your experience may be different, but for me, there are worse ways I could have spent [my money].
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Summary: What's Korean for "Couch Potato"?
Review: Dumb Thing #1: You can't program a sequence of CD cuts (or a repeat) without having your TV on, because the only output is to the video display, not the front panel. Dumb Thing #2: The user interface. Maybe they all rot these days. This one seems to be the Korean conception of what an American moron is going to be able to use. I find that I tend to have somewhat better luck with American conceptions of what an American moron is going to be able to use, particularly in those cases when the American doing the conceiving is not in fact a moron. (At least I think that happened to me once...) The most painful thing is trying not to hit the wrong button too many times while wondering whether the box can see the beam from the remote right now and whether the remote has adequate batteries. Natch, there are only a couple of buttons on the box because they figure 99% of customers will just use the remote anyway. I'm pretty unsatisfied. But it works and it's cheap.
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Summary: OK, Except for the Squeal, the Jitter, and the Remote
Review: I liked the idea of it. I never used it much for the DVD but when I did, it would give a high pitched squeal. This would last about 5 or 10 minutes. I couldn't tell if it was because the machine warmed up or if my head just got used to it. (My hearing is 20/20.) The VCR picture was ok for pre-recorded tapes or tapes I made with another machine. However, the picture developed a jitter when viewing shows it taped itself. Also, the remote control never worked right. Some of the buttons didn't work. I sent the remote back to Samsung Repair and they sent it back unfixed. They said there was corrosion, but it worked for them. They said I should think about buying a new one. It still didn't work for me but I programmed my One4all to operate the machine. Eventually, I just took it back to the store and got a Sony DVD-VCR Combo to replace it. SLV-D300-P. So far so good. It is very similar in style and programming to the Samsung. It was most likely made by the same manufacturer.
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Summary: Decent VCR, unreliable DVD
Review: like the others, we've had trouble with the dvd player skipping scenes, making watching some movies impossible. there are a lot of annoying noises that accompany the use of the remote for us. we can't use the super fast-forwrd b/c the noise is just too much. the vcr, on the other hand, works just fine. i wish i had read the reviews first, b/c i would've bought a different machine.
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Summary: A unit to avoid completely
Review: To sum it up, I've had nothing but problems with this supposed DVD player. A quarter of discs pause for a second or two every thirty seconds making the film completely unwatchable. Others develop the above reported problem of randomly skipping to the end of chapters. Needless to say, I deeply regret buying this paperweight and hope that others will not make the same mistake.
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Summary: I Have Had No Major Problems with this DVD/VCR Combo!
Review: I have had this Samsung DVD Player/VCR for over a year now and though it has had the occasional minor electronic glitch I have had no major problems with the DVD player and haven't found the DVD player or the VCR to be too noisy unlike my old VCR which was extremely noisy! I pretty much have enjoyed having this DVD/VCR combo and being able to watch my favorite movies and TV shows on DVD and use the VCR when I need to tape something. I'm sorry to hear that so many people have had major problems with this Samsung DVD/VCR combo but like I said I have only had the occasional minor glitch and I'm satisfied with it. I watched a movie on DVD today and it started to skip so I took it out cleaned it and then went to the scene sellection and repeated from the scene where it started skipping and it worked fine and I was able to enjoy the rest of the movie with absolutely no problems and I have found sometimes that on the rare occasions when it's the DVD player itself that is being glitchy and making the DVD skip that if I turned the power off and then back on again that the problem cleared up and worked fine. Yes it's a minor annoyance so that's why I give it 4 stars and not a perfect 5 but I haven't had anything major go wrong so I personally could not rate this with 1 or 2 stars and I definitely think it's better then 3 stars.
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