Samsung DVD-VR330

Terrible – Simple: stay away from Samsung video products, this is no better than their early model VCRs (remember their VB-300? that would blow up within the first 3 months of operation, power surge or not - it boils down to poor design and Samsung couldn't care less). Fortunately, this one won't blow up, but it will fail in every other aspect, leaving you with little more than a clock. A lemon; should have been recalled. My experience suggests that there are better combo units around made by other manufacturers which are far more reliable - extended warranty or none. Makes an ideal paperweight or doorstop or even a prop to stop your car rolling backwards into the street out of your driveway. It may even serve as a footstool to rest your tired feet after a hard day's work. Absolutely useless as a DVD/VCR combo - if any of the functions within it work at all, it is only for a very short period of time - say, less than 6 months - add up the trips to the service centre to have it repaired under warranty, by the time that warranty expires, and the unit fails again (which it will), it costs you more than it's worth in the end; and you get next to zero use out of it during that whole time. Waste of money in terms of purchase and repairs.

OK – I bought this unit for the sole purpose of digitising a heap of old VHS tapes. It has worked quite well for that purpose, the VHS player read my old tapes and made quite clean digital copies of them. My major complaint is that it is very sensitive to the presence of flaws in the tape. Several times the recorder froze and refuxed to complete the dubbing task I set it. It also proved to be very picky about the DVDs I used. Of the three I tried, only the MagMedia appeared to work consistently well. I have only had the unit two months, so I can't say anything about its life span in general, but it works reasonably well for the task of converting VHS to DVD. Easy to use Limited flexibility in DVD menu design, sensitive to DVD-R speed and VHS tape flaws

Terrible – Do yourself a favour, bypass this product and any other Samsung unit if they're all this quality and go for another manufacturer. I cannot recommend any aspect of this product. Trouble with playing DVDs, trouble playing tapes, trouble recording programs.