Samsung DVD-R130 DVD Recorder
Samsung's DVD-R130 DVD Recorder is perfect for sharing your favorite video more easily. SImply connect it to your home entertainment center and start writing your favorite shows, movies and homemade digital video onto a disc. It's quuck and easy! NOTE - Preliminary specs; subject to change
Samsung's stylishly black DVD-R130 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. 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
Samsung DVD-R130 DVD Recorder Accessories
 Verbatim 16x DVD-R 4.7 GB Discs (25-spindle)
Memorex 4x DVD+RW 25-Pack Spindle
Kingston DTI 4 GB USB Flash Drive
TDK 4.7GB 16x DVD-R (100-Pack Spindle)
HP Officejet 5610 All-in-One Printer/Fax/Scanner/Copier (Q7311A#ABA)
HP 22 Tricolor Inkjet Print Cartridge (C9352AN#140)
TDK DVD-RW 4x 4.7GB (25-Pack Spindle )
Panasonic KX-TG5632M 5.8 GHz FHSS GigaRange Digital Cordless Answering System with Dual Handsets
McAfee Total Protection 2008 - 3 User [OLD VERSION]
Memorex 8.5Gb/ 2.4x DVD+R Dual Layer (25-Pack Spindle)
Samsung DVD-R130 DVD Recorder Reviews
It does still playback DVDs though, even though sometimes it won't read the disc the first few times I insert it, but eventually does, so we will continue to use it for playback until it is totally toast. It was slightly noticible during first 45-60 minutes, then became very obvious in 2nd hour of the recording. Later during playback, I noticed that the sound and video were not sync'ed up (it was like watching a dubbed movie). Then about 4 months ago, I started using it every day to record a 2-hour daytime TV show with the scheduled timer feature. First to those people who can't play their recorded DVDs in other players, you have to Finalize the DVD first, read the manual. We bought one of these Samsung DVD-R130 recorders about a year ago, when the other cheap obsure brand DVD recorder we had died after 3 months of buying it. I thought this was a fluke, until yesterday when it did it again, and then refused to record anything at all afterward even when I tried manually with 3 different DVDs. This is not a Samsung problem - it is true of most DVD & CD recorders (even for those in a PC).
The unit was also becoming rather warm to the touch, over-heating (even though we had it well-ventilated), which I thought might be related. Then 2-3 times during this past month or so with timed recordings, it just powered off spontaniously a few seconds after starting the recording. Anyway, the bottom line is: Since several other folks have also experienced similar problems, this Samsung DVD recorder is just not a good choice. But in order to record, we are going to have to go buy yet another DVD recorder. (Fortunately I did finalize all of my DVDs, and they do work fine in our other DVD player). Probably a Sony or Panasonic, but we'll be sure to first check the reviews this time. We went with the Samsung, bcse my husband had had good luck with this brand in the past, and it did work great for the first several months, we were quite happy with it.
I bought the Samsung R130 DVD Recorder in August 2006 for $150 so I could record shows that I was unable to watch. wouldn't accept a blank DVD for me to record a show. wouldn't play purchased DVDs. 3. Of course it's out of warranty, and there goes $ down the drain. It basically will not accept DVDs and it won't record them. 2. 1.
gave me numerous error codes. I now leave the DVD Recorder unplugged because it is unresponsive and makes an annoying buzzing-type sound. 4. The DVD recorder worked fine for a year, but 2 months after the warranty was over the DVD Recorder gave me problems such as:. would freeze up during recording and I had to unplug it since it was unresponsive.
1 in 3 or 4 are wasted when it just records for 20 min. I would not recommend to anyone to purchase this recorder unless you are looking for a frustrating pain in the butt. The lips are out of sync with the audio and is very tempermental when recording. to almost 2 hours of shows or movies I am trying to record then stops on it's own).
It does say on screen that the recorder is reset, but it didn't change a thing. Have had this recorder for over a year and had nothing but problems. I use only DVD-R of different brands and it doesn't seem to matter. I tried the fix suggested by another reviewer to hold down the up and down channels at the same time to reset the machine.
I have had no problem getting finalized discs to play on any other players, but have ended up with way to many coasters (approx.
this is a very good DVD player, it has a lot of options for almost anything you need.
And don't buy it for your stereotypical grandma, she'll never use it. As an example, title renaming is done via an arrow-key operated "keyboard": it takes around five minutes to enter something as simple as "FAMILY GUY - BLUE HARVEST". Outputs include composite, S-Video, and component, and the recorder can output ED (progressive scan) signals via the component outputs. As a recorder, the player is unreliable. Use with a regular TV that has only antenna/cable inputs requires the use of a modulator. The device suffers also from those problems you'd expect to go with DVD recording - it's just not as simple as "hit record, hit stop, you have your recording" - you have to go through the trouble of "finalizing" discs (even with DVD-RWs where this could be automatic).
On the plus side, the support for Firewire input (though this is documented as being a camcorder specific thing, I have no idea if it works with anything but camcorders) and S-Video is good, as is the support for four levels of quality, allowing up to four hours of video on a single layer DVD-R, is good. This is the first player I've ever come across that doesn't play PAL discs. As a DVD player, the player is clunky and poorly spec'd. The first disc I tried the recorder "recorded" on to but missed the first twenty minutes of the program being recorded, the twenty minutes playing as a black screen with occasionally bursts of audio. I tried three different media types before getting anything to record successfully. Cheap no-name brand DVD players generally do (if either the disc or player is region free), and will even convert it for use on an NTSC set. The third, a Fuji-film DVD-R, was recognized in less time and the recording appears to be successful.
There are three menu buttons on the remote, and two information buttons, one of which, apparently as a joke, is labeled "ANYKEY". The second, an Imation DVD-RW, was unrecognized by the player (A second disc from the same pack was recognized, but reluctantly - the player generally takes two minutes to figure out it has a DVD-RW inserted). It can take S-Video, composite, antenna/cable, or Firewire feeds. As this is my first DVD recorder, I don't have much to compare it to directly, but I can make a number of obvious comments:. The user interface is also clunky. The DVD-R130 is a DVD recorder designed to record standard NTSC video.
The Samsung's lack of support for PAL is all the more surprising given the move over the last few years from NTSC TVs to HD TVs (that generally accept most scan rates). In the end, I'd recommend using a separate DVD player to play your DVDs, and to use this strictly as a VCR replacement. I found frequent occasions that navigating from one menu to another involved hitting the same button twice (by design, not because of the usual remote control problems). It has multiple levels of quality.
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