Samsung DVD-VR375 1080p Up-Converting VHS Combo DVD Recorder

This DVD recorder is so easy to use! I basically figured out how to convert VHS to DVD in no time. And it works great!

I bought this Samsung DVD-VR375 and had to return it. As it was a nice overall unit for the price and has a nice set of inputs/outputs, this machine does not do what is advertised as it's main feature!

I owned this machine for about a month and every single old family VHS tape that I tried to transfer to DVD, the audio was out of sync! You will see the people in the videos mouth move, then two seconds later the words come out and their mouth is already moving again saying something else. Nobody wants to watch a movie like that.

It's been a month of frustration with this unit. I tried seven different home videos and five different types of recordable media! First it was DVD-R Video, then DVD+R, then DVD + or - R at a slower speed, finally tech support said to try a slow speed DVD-RW. I think we know where this is going! At another added cost to me, these discs didn't work either.

I finally returned this unit and bought another major brand at a similar price and it has worked flawlessly for me. Avoid this unit at all costs if you're trying to duplicate old VHS tapes to DVD.

I am very satisfied with this vr357. It was somewhat hard to understand the manual but not that bad. I'm currently switching all my video tapes onto DVD's. The machine burns and plays all of the various types of DVD's where as my old DVD player would not.

I like the dvd/vcr very much. I did not know that there is no tuner in the recorder when I purchased it. I cannot record from the tv without a box of some sort. I did not purchase it for that purpose so it is ok.

Here's my story:
- I finally realize what all that talk about copyright protection is about. I purchased the Samsung DVD-VR375 1080p Up-Converting VHS Combo DVD Recorder to dub my personal VHS tapes to DVD. When I tried to copy my VHS movies (like Heavy Metal which I purchased from a store about a decade ago) to DVD, it stopped a few seconds in saying that it can't dub because of the copy protection signal endcoded on it.

I am now learning that is because I am trying to copy video that has embedded macrovision protection. Taping over the hole on the cassette doesn't help because that hole is only designed to tell your VCR not to allow you to accidentally record over the cassette. This is one of the reasons the Samsung DVD-VR375 1080p Up-Converting VHS Combo DVD unit is useless because all it allows me to copy is my own home movies. From what I am told one needs to incorporate a Digital Video Stabilizer.

To add annoyance to the above problem I also had to contend with the fact that after dubbing a home made VHS tape to DVD the VOB files it created were NOT created properly.

So, I'm returning this for a full refund including shipping costs.

Live and learn. And, thanks copyright protection for protecting me from myself.