Samsung DVD-R135 DVD Recorder

It doesn't even deserve a full star!!! Never buying a Samsung product after this piece of junk. Even after a trip back to Samsung for expensive repairs, it still fails to operate 95% of the time, often freezing up and locking discs inside. Has yet to record properly. Poor customer service, poor quality! Based on the number of similar reviews, they should really look into their quality control.

Short and sweet - don't waste your money.

As many have said it worked well for a while, it will now play most DVDs most of the time, I have to unplug it and plug it back in sometimes to get it to play. It will no longer record any DVDs though and will not finalize any discs that are not yet finalized. My wife is about to kill me because we have a couple DVDs of my daughter that were never finalized and now we can only play them in this unit. I bought a new Toshiba DR-400 to replace the Samsung. I never even attempted to call Samsung after all the horrible customer service stories I've read.

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!

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

This purchase was a geeat deal, just what I was looking for. Delivery & Packaging was fine. Thanks!