Samsung DVD-R135 DVD Recorder
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.
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
Samsung DVD-R135 DVD Recorder Accessories
 Cables Unlimited 6-Foot HDMI Male to Male Cable (PCM-2295-06)
Panasonic DVD-RAM 4.7GB single-sided DVD-RAM discs 10-pack
Cables To Go - 28012 - 10ft Pro Series HD15 M/M SVGA Monitor Cable with Ferrites (Black)
New Zealand (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)
Philips DVDR3575H/37 1080p Upscaling DVDR with Built-In Tuner
Samsung DVD-R135 DVD Recorder Reviews
I never even attempted to call Samsung after all the horrible customer service stories I've read. I bought a new Toshiba DR-400 to replace the Samsung. It will no longer record any DVDs though and will not finalize any discs that are not yet finalized. 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. 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. Short and sweet - don't waste your money.
If you spend money on this YOU WILL GET NOTHING FOR IT. I got it replaced. DO NOT BUY THIS. The next one worked for 3 months. My DVD-R135 worked (poorly) for about all of 4 months. For the love of god DO NOT BUY THIS. When it did work, the sound quality was poor, and the picture had large amounts of static.
Apparently, Samsung took the unit in, played a movie, boxed it up and shipped it out - without testing the record feature. I have owned my DVD-R135 for twenty months. I sent the unit in for repair which was covered under warranty. The repair was initially good.
However, after a few months, I noticed that some recorded discs got botched. 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. Todd After the repair, the unit did both play and record discs on to DVD-R format. 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.
It has been a rocky ride. I took it back to my office, put it in my laptop, and loaded the movie software. 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. Immediately, upon receiving the unit, I discovered the record feature did not work. 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.
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 purchased a refurbished unit.
This purchase was a geeat deal, just what I was looking for. Delivery & Packaging was fine. Thanks.
This unit has a mind of it's own. This disc plays OK so I reinsert the original disc. Thanks for your time. So I eject it (after it decides when it wants to eject) and put in another disc. I noticed that there are none for sale that are NEW. Plays fine. Example- I insert a dvd, and it freezes-TOTALLY. Next time I try this procedure, you guessed it, same thing happens.
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