samsung dvd-r120 review

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By hollidayp1 on 6th Sep 2006

hollidayp1's Ratings

Time DVD Recorder Owned	6 - 12 Months
Image Quality	8/10
Sound Quality	8/10
Features	6/10
Ease of Use	7/10
Value for money	5/10
Overall value	2/10
hollidayp1's recommendation

Good Points

Easy to use, quick recording start-up, good quality

Bad Points

DVD's do not "play through" on other players. DVD-RW's are recorded in a weird non-standard format.

General Comments

The Samsung DVD-R120 DVD Recorder has two very bad quirks that cause me to rate this recorder as not acceptable. The first is that DVD-Rs recorded and finalized on this unit do not "play-through" the chapters on other DVD Players. That is, when you insert the disc into any other player it only plays the first chapter and then stops. You have to manually go through the menu to select each part of the recording you want to view. The second problem is that the format of DVD-RWs recorded by the R120 is non-standard and you cannot edit or copy it on most computers. It finalizes DVD-RWs using files named "VR_MOVIE_IFO", "VR_MOVIE_BUP", and "VR_MOVIE_VRO" where the VRO file is approximately equivalent to a VOB. The problem is that most players or editing programs don't know what the heck a VRO file is!

Other than those serious problems, the quality and ease of use of this unit is very good to excellent. What a shame that they botched up those two important functions. By the way, the latest firmware on the Samsung website does not fix the problems (as of Sep 4, 2006).

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