Editorial Review:

Item Description:
Whether recording shows from an HDTV or transferring footage from a camcorder, Samsung's Hi-Def Conversion DVD Recorder captures and maintains every visual and audio detail. DVD-RW/-R format recording starts immediately with the '1 sec.' Quick Recording feature. Samsung's enhanced Video Quality assures crisper, more lifelike pictures.

Amazon.com Item Description:
Samsung's stylishly black DVD-R135 puts the power, quality, and convenience of digital video recording and playback at your fingertips. The stylish, slender component stands less than 2.5 inches tall but delivers everything from convenient DVD recording (write-once DVD-R and rewritable DVD-RW) to progressive-scan video and playback of MP3 music and JPEG digital-photo files. It's also an 'upconverting' DVD player, which boosts the standard 480 lines of resolution from a DVD disc up to a high-def 1080i (interlaced) picture. This unit also offers CM (commercial) advance, enabling you to skip ads from recorded TV programming recorded.

A front-panel DV (FireWire IEEE 1394) input enables you to connect the family video camcorder and edit and record footage directly to a DVD disc--all via a single cable and without losing image quality. The EVQ (Enhanced Video Quality) feature provides sharper images and truer color reproduction for both movies and home videos. EVQ reduces pixel noise produced during digital signal processing, mitigates the cross color phenomenon occasionally produced by separation of Y & C signal.

You can program recording via the timer, or choose easy one-touch recording (initiating playback at 30 minutes and adding 30 minutes with each additional press of the button, up to the available disc time or 240 minutes, whichever is sooner). Chapters are created when you record your favorite TV show or video clips from a camcorder onto a DVD disc. The chapters are automatically created, which eliminates wasted time searching the whole DVD to find the right spot. Up to 99 titles can be recorded onto one disc. With the simple and easy edit function menu, you can delete, copy, rename, and lock, among other things. You can also create a playlist and edit video in a specific sequence.

It offers the following connection options:

• Composite video: 1 out
• S-Video: 1 out
• Component video: 1 out
• Firewire: 1 in
• RF: 1 in, 1 out
• Analog audio: 2 in, 2 out
• Coaxial digital audio: 1 out
• Optical digital audio: 1 out

Tech Talk
Component video (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound.

What's in the Box
DVD recorder/player, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions



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Accessories:

• 3-Year Extended Service Plan - Covers Electronic Items $0-$200 - Repair

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Rating: - * A quick way to burn your money ... DO NOT BUY THIS! For the love of god DO NOT BUY THIS!!!!! My DVD-R135 worked (poorly) for about all of 4 months. I got it replaced. The next one worked for 3 months. When it did work, the sound quality was poor, and the picture had large amounts of static. If you spend money on this YOU WILL GET NOTHING FOR IT! Rating: - * Owned for 20 Months - Rocky Road ... I have owned my DVD-R135 for twenty months. It has been a rocky ride. I purchased a refurbished unit. Immediately, upon receiving the unit, I discovered the record feature did not work. Apparently, Samsung took the unit in, played a movie, boxed it up and shipped it out - without testing the record feature. I sent the unit in for repair which was covered under warranty. The repair was initially good. After the repair, the unit did both play and record discs on to DVD-R format. However, after a few months, I noticed that some recorded discs got botched. Giving the DVD-R135 the benefit of the doubt and blaming my discs (they are TDK DVD-R which TDK is known to be a good brand) I forged ahead. The final straw to giving my low two star rating came when I recently went to play the HBO mini-series disc of John Adams. No matter how many times I tried, how well I cleaned the disc with Windex and a 100% cotton cloth, the DVD-R135 would not read or recognize the disc. I took it back to my office, put it in my laptop, and loaded the movie software. It plays great, clearly pointing the finger at a substandard component issue with the DVD-R135. I had up until this point kept a journal of how many successful recordings were made without error. I had made about 10 in a row, each about 3 total hours of recordings, but lately about every other disc I have to toss, losing all recorded information, because the recorder can not recognize for playback the very disc it recorded. I am not looking forward to sending this unit in again for repair a second time. Todd Rating: - * Great Deal, Thanks! ... This purchase was a geeat deal, just what I was looking for. Delivery & Packaging was fine. Thanks! Rating: - * Why me? ... This unit has a mind of it's own. Example- I insert a dvd, and it freezes-TOTALLY. So I eject it (after it decides when it wants to eject) and put in another disc. This disc plays OK so I reinsert the original disc. Plays fine. Next time I try this procedure, you guessed it, same thing happens. I noticed that there are none for sale that are NEW. Thanks for your time. Rating: - * DON'T BUY THIS JUNK! ... Just like everyone else here, my Samsung R135 DVD Recorder stopped recognizing discs after a few months. It started out one day with it taking nearly a minute to load a DVD, annoying but eventually they would load and I'd be able to watch them. However, the loading time continued to increased as the days went by, 1 minute 30 seconds to load then 2 minutes, finally it would no longer load my Jesus DVDs for viewing or blank DVDs for recording Jesus movies. It is now totally non-functioning. I have to go buy a different DVD recorder and it will not be another Samsung product, man. While I thank God for the time it was working, it was nice to have during the few short months that it was operating in good order, now it's a useless piece of junk, man.