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Summary: A Pleasant Surprise
Review: Although Initial Setup was Fairly Easy for some reason I couldn't get a signal off the RF Connector It Latter Resolved Itself, Pay Attention to the formats You Can And Can't Use. I Made the Mistake of Buying DVD+RW Wrong, DVD-RW Are Supported. It say's That it will not Support VCD But Does. Picture Quility Recording off Air is Great, S-video Even Better, Over all It is a good Buy.
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Summary: great product
Review: Hllo,
this product uses dvd -r not +r but thats ok it's a great product, but if you don't havecable and you don't have satelite just a regular tv you will need to get a RF modulator from radio shack or another store there only a few dollars and then once it hooks up it's easy to use and works like a charm and will play all of your dvds as well you can easly hook up a vcr to the dvd recrder as well aand put your vhs tapes on dvd. If you find it to hard to hokup call the technical support department in the ook they are very helpful and will have you set this thing up in a few minutes.
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Summary: Samsung DVD-R4000 DVD Player/Recorder
Review: I bought a Samsung DVD-R4000 recorder in Oct. 2003. The unit worked fine for a while. After having recorded a few DVD's successfully it said "finalizing has failed". I notified the Sansung warranty repair in N.J. and Amazon. Amazon said to send the defective unit back and they would replace it. I received the new unit in short order. I recorded one DVD with it, before this unit showed the following, "finalizing is failing." I should point out that I bought Sansung DVD-r's as it burped on other manufacturers DVD's. I talked with Amazon and warranty service in N.J. for Samsung. Amazon said to send it back and they would reimburse me. The conversation with Samsung's warranty repair service was bizarre and after that I wouldn't purchase another Samsung product. It appears that this is a contract service to Samsung and in my estimation not customer oriented. I tried via a Public Relations service to contact Samsung to no avail. They have insulated themselves from customer contact in my opinion. If you go to the Samsung web site you will see that their motto is, "Limitless Support and Uncommon Customer Care." In my opinion that truly has to be a joke. Samsung appears to have isolated itself from any constructive or any kind of criticism of their product from the customer. You can however feel confident buying through Amazon however. I would give Amazon 5 stars for cystomer care and help and actually no stars based on experience for Samsung. It still is "caveat emptor" in the marketplace and Panasonic or Sony will get my business in the future.
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Summary: Samsung DVD-R4000 DVD Player/Recorder
Review: I bought a Samsung DVD-R4000 recorder in Oct. 2003. The unit worked fine for a while. After having recorded a few DVD's successfully it said "finalizing has failed". I notified the Sansung warranty repair in N.J. and Amazon. Amazon said to send the defective unit back and they would replace it. I received the new unit in short order. I recorded one DVD with it, before this unit showed the following, "finalizing is failing." I should point out that I bought Sansung DVD-r's as it burped on other manufacturers DVD's. I talked with Amazon and warranty service in N.J. for Samsung. Amazon said to send it back and they would reimburse me. The conversation with Samsung's warranty repair service was bizarre and after that I wouldn't purchase another Samsung product. It appears that this is a contract service to Samsung and in my estimation not customer oriented. I tried via a Public Relations service to contact Samsung to no avail. They have insulated themselves from customer contact in my opinion. If you go to the Samsung web site you will see that their motto is, "Limitless Support and Uncommon Customer Care." In my opinion that truly has to be a joke. Samsung appears to have isolated itself from any constructive or any kind of criticism of their product from the customer. You can however feel confident buying through Amazon however. I would give Amazon 5 stars for cystomer care and help and actually no stars based on experience for Samsung. It still is "caveat emptor" in the marketplace and Panasonic or Sony will get my business in the future.
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Summary: so far so good
Review: I burn't about 100 DVDS so far and it it is holding up well. Samsung its self is like most companies with support, it depends who you talk to on any given day. Sometimes great and others not so great.
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Summary: Love It!
Review: I had first gotten a Philips player (see my 1 star review on that page) and traded it for the Samsung.I should start by saying that the reason I got a DVD recorder was to simply "save" things from my TiVo to DVD. Nothing too fancy. Setup: a snap. Got it going in 10 minutes out of the box.
Interface: a heck of a lot better than the Philips. The menus are easy to understand. Everything is where you figure it would be. I recommend reading the manual to learn about the more advanced features, but even that's written well. The "keyboard" on-screen is great for doing your titles. So far, I've already burned an episode of Angel for a friend who forgot to set his TiVo and have unloaded 7+ hours off my TiVo onto discs. It's rather nice to be able to burn discs for friends of mine. Oh, and check your local paper for ads for Office Depot, Office Max, Best Buy, Staples, Fry's, etc...they usually run some good deals on DVD-R stacks (saw one for 50 discs for $55 this morning). This was a positive consumer experience and I'd buy from Samsung again.
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Summary: Love It!
Review: I had first gotten a Philips player (see my 1 star review on that page) and traded it for the Samsung. I should start by saying that the reason I got a DVD recorder was to simply "save" things from my TiVo to DVD. Nothing too fancy. Setup: a snap. Got it going in 10 minutes out of the box.
Interface: a heck of a lot better than the Philips. The menus are easy to understand. Everything is where you figure it would be. I recommend reading the manual to learn about the more advanced features, but even that's written well. The "keyboard" on-screen is great for doing your titles. So far, I've already burned an episode of Angel for a friend who forgot to set his TiVo and have unloaded 7+ hours off my TiVo onto discs. It's rather nice to be able to burn discs for friends of mine. Oh, and check your local paper for ads for Office Depot, Office Max, Best Buy, Staples, Fry's, etc...they usually run some good deals on DVD-R stacks (saw one for 50 discs for $55 this morning). This was a positive consumer experience and I'd buy from Samsung again.
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Summary: Great Value And Easy To Use!
Review: I picked this up mainly to archieve videos, and it is wonderful. Menu creation is especially easy-if the disk is not playing it will title the disk, and if it is playing, the individual chapters. The automatic setup is a pain, though, as above, and if you have to move equipment to teach classes, etc. it is a huge headache.
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Summary: Great Value And Easy To Use!
Review: I picked this up mainly to archieve videos, and it is wonderful. Menu creation is especially easy-if the disk is not playing it will title the disk, and if it is playing, the individual chapters. The automatic setup is a pain, though, as above, and if you have to move equipment to teach classes, etc. it is a huge headache.
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Summary: A great machine that replaces the VCR
Review: I was looking for a better mousetrap than the VCR. This DVD Recorder makes great quality recordings and fills that requirement quite nicely. I decided to hook the Samsung R4000 up to my Tivo (my all-time favorite electronic device) and copy shows that interest me onto DVD. So far I haven't made any "coasters" and all of my recordings work in my other DVD players as well as my Honda Odyssey van DVD. The only negative is the initial setup. I am fairly savvy with respect to electronics and I read the DVD manual cover to cover but, I used some profanity trying to get the DVD recorder setup via the onscreen menu. The actual cable hookup was no problem but the DVD recorder insists that you have a signal going to the unit such as cable TV so that the DVD can preprogram the channels. If you try to skip this process, then everytime you turn the unit on, it will start its setup process until you successfully complete it. After I finally got past that issue, I have been very happy with the unit.
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