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Samsung DVD-VR375 1080p Up-Converting VHS Combo DVD Recorder | 
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| Brand: Samsung
Category: CE
List Price: $179.99
Buy Refurbished: $89.99
You Save: $90.00 (50%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.7
Dimensions (in): 16.9 x 13 x 3.1
Warranty: 1 Year Limited Warranty
MPN: DVD-VR375
Model: DVD-VR375
UPC: 036725607958
EAN: 0036725607958
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Samsung factory refurbished unit in sealed box. Like new with all the accessories. 90 days Samsung warranty
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| Features:
| • | Does NOT have a built in Tuner | | • | 1080p Upconversion | | • | HiFi Stereo VCR with DVD Recorder | | • | DIVx Compatible | | • | AV Pass thu with cable box control |
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Product Description
This versatile unit records both DVD discs and VHS tapes, delivering crisp pictures and high-quality sound. Transition those VHS family videos to DVD. Samsung's DVD-VR375 provides up-conversion to 1080p and an easy recording feature to help you immediately master the process.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 38 more reviews...
 Great For Converting VHS to DVD June 21, 2008
133 out of 136 found this review helpful
I am far from an electronics expert, and I was looking for a way to convert many of my VHS tapes to DVDs. I decided to take advantage of this reasonably priced machine, and am very glad I did. Stick a DVD-R in the disc compartment, the VHS tape you want to dub in the tape compartment, and following the instructions, you have a DVD copy! One piece of advice - when you put the VHS tape to be dubbed in and it starts to play, the tracking will start automatically. Let it finish, as even the oldest of your tapes should then play perfectly. If you interrupt the automatic tracking by pushing stop or fast forwarding or rewinding, and then attempt to automatically fix the tracking, the results won't be nearly as good. I can't speak for the many advanced features on the machine but I can say for my simple purposes, it works wonderfully.
Great Combo May 22, 2008
41 out of 45 found this review helpful
I just got this about a week ago. I have two other DVD recorder/VCR combos. One is an Allegro, which is a good machine, and the other is a Magnavox. This is a much better machine by far. Before I go further, all you folks who have a fascination for the bells and whistles, you may be disappointed. It does have the angle function for those rare videos that include it. It DOES NOT have a tuner, or a zoom function. I have it connected to a 42" Toshiba Regza Full HDTV ( 1080p ) using an HDMI connection. I have watched several "standard" Definition DVDs and all I can say is WOW!!!. I do not have HD service as yet, and have been running from my box thru the Samsung to the TV and upconverting the TV signal. It makes a noticable difference, and will suffice until I get an HD box. This in my opinion, was a good interim choice until the BluRay prices come down. I can't comment on the VCR side as I haven't used it as yet. It has all the typical VCR functions, such as pause, slow, FFW, REW, and frame advance. Again, it is capable of the RGB componet OR HDMI connection, if your set has them. coastie65
 Compared to Samsung 357 It's a HUGE DOWNGRADE June 27, 2008
40 out of 40 found this review helpful
If I didn't own the earlier model Samsung 357 it would be a 3-4* item based on the other combos I have had (LG/SONY/TOSHIBA). However,I fell in love with the 357 & have been unable to find it for its previous price-this was released & the 357 went up in price $50-100. So I bought this one. These combos die too fast to spend more than $150. I use an HDMI cord/to an LG HDTV/run thru a Samsung Dual tuner DTV satellite DVR. Viewing quality is excellent-recording is another story.
CON (Compared to 357)
*The LP recording is equal to EP quality on the 357 - very poor-blurry for any text on the screen-so if you are keeping DVDs for long term quality recordings you are forced to use more discs since you have half the time per disc.
*it loads slower
*it is extremely loud, when loading it wooshes/stops/ whooshes/stops & whooshes again. The whooshing actually woke up my husband the first few nights I used it.
*Everything you do to a disc viewing menus, loading, removing,etc. everything causes a square to pop up while it registers the information. 357 is a quiet quick load and unload, no time between menus etc.
*When you delete the 1st title on +RW disc, you don't gain the time back-on 357 (and every other +RW recroder I've tried)you can re-record another show in that time frame without deleting the following titles
*When you record on a 4x +RW disc, it reads as dirty when you try to play in any other machine (except for 1 of my 2 phillips players) any higher speed is fine
*You have to go to the menu & then the information pg to find out how much time is remaining on a disc-on 357 you press a button on remote & it shows what record mode you are in & time remaining for each mode.
PRO (compared to 357)
*Much cheaper now that 357 price was raised
*finalizes faster
*It auto formats a blank disc(357 requires going through menu)
*has more settings LSP/SPP/ESP etc. in addition to SP/LP/EP of the 357
*Dividing and editing on +RW is much faster-so slow on 357, I stopped editing out commercials-this is very fast-but not instant like on an LG
*records everything from my DVR to disc, no copyright problems that rquire you to qatch a show or movie right away(357 has no copyright problems either but its something you should know before buying a combo-many are so sensitive you can't record a soap opera.
For anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of using the 357, you'll like it just fine. But the downgrade in quality from the 357 is heartbreakingly obvious and a huge dissappointment - but admittedly better than anything else in the price range.I just hope it doesn't die as fast as the 357-about 18 months-2 years of heavy recording. Perhaps that's why they made a lower quality version-to make it last longer.
 Bad out of the box June 12, 2008
31 out of 33 found this review helpful
I could not obtain all of the menu functions from the first of three days I owned it. Disk selection type and editing were not available. The OTR worked fine. It finalized disks after using timed or OTR recording automatically, which it was not supposed to do. I was using DVD-R disks. On the third day, the component input quit. I returned it and am looking for another. Oh, BTW, it has the bad copyright function installed and will not let you record movies from pay channels or the movie channels (HBO, CMAX, etc.). You can record TMC, History, AMC, etc. channels without a problem.
 Excellent conversion tool for VHS to DVD and DVR to DVD July 10, 2008
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
I purchased this item primarily to copy from my DVR to DVD. It works well for that. I also recommended it to my brother for converting old family VHS tapes to DVD and it is working well for that as well. It is much easier than copying the old VHS tapes to the computer and then burning DVDs. The DVDs have also been playable in all of my DVD players which is a plus.
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