Samsung DVD-VR330 DVD Recorder

I think just at a year it stopped working entirely for the DVD playing/recording side. It gives a disc initialization error, it malfunctions when playing a DVD. This model is now only good for playing mp3 and music CDs and VHS tapes, neither function is what I bought this for. I got probably 5 DVD recordings before this function stopped working.

This unit lasted less than a year with moderate use and I most likely will stay away from Samsung electronics from now on.

This unit rejects 2 out of every 3 disks. The record quality is poor. Do not buy. I am sorry I did. Their TVs are great, but whoever designed this deck should be fired!

Easy programming, clear recordings and a sharp picture through it's
tuner. I already have this recorder and needed a second one and went
out of my way to find it. I have not used the VCR side though.

I have just been reading up on a lot of the other customer reviews here and it's now at least I know it's not me!

Like many others, mine worked for about a year (of course the time of the warranty) and then began not being able to read recordable DVDs. At first I thought the DVDs themselves might be faulty and even threw several out. After all, why would a major company like Samsung produce a machine that all of a sudden stopped working after a year? Several movies I had to watch on my laptop b/c it would not play.

I could finally, at times, get some of the discs to work, but literally after trying 15 or 20 times! Then they started not working for a lot of pre-recorded discs as well, and even discs I made on this very machine! I bought a whole box set produced by 20th Century Fox, but can I watch any of them on this machine? No!

I just burned a 2.5 hour movie from VHS to DVD+R (sometimes the plus-r's will not "initialize" correctly because they are "damaged" Bull! It's this machine that is truly damaged!) At any rate, when the movie was over I got the usual message after I pressed the stop button to wait. So I waited. And waited. And waited! Usually after 30 seconds or so the message disappears, but this one was on for literally 15 minutes! I could not shut the machine off or press stop. I had to unplug the damn thing and then it came back as a blank disc! I lost everything!

I just bought a new non-name brand recorder, that will probably be much much better. Tomorrow Samsung goes into the garbage and hopefully my new machine will never give me this problem.


To hell with Samsung and all of their products!

Samsung should be ashamed to have made such a overpriced faulty recorder.
Mine has been for repair & still rejects over half the blank DVDs.
Takes much longer to finalize discs than other makes.
If you stop recording before full disc, it says to wait "a moment" & it takes enough time to have Breakfast or lunch.
Could have bought 2-3 Lite-ons instead & they work much better.