BOUGHT THE SAMSUNG VP-DC161 FROM A SHOPPING CHANNEL, AFTER WARRANTY IT WOULDNT WORK, KEEPS SAYING "bad disk or no disk " MAKES NOISES FROM THE DISK COMPARTMENT, THE RECORDER WAS ONLY USED A HANDFUL OF TIMES, WOULD NOT RECOMEND THIS PRODUCT TO ANYONE JUST A COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY. WAS CONSIDERING GETTING THE ITEM REPAIRED LOCALLY, BUT AFTER READING THESE REVIEWS, THINK THAT WOULD BE A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME AND MY MONEY, SO ONLY ONE SOLUTION BIN IT. DO NOT BUY. SOUNDS LIKE SAMSUNG IS A WASTE OF TIME TOO.

I have had nothing but trouble with this camcorder. I trusted the dork in Currys and have wasted £299. I have tried to use this on three holidays now & we have no use-able footage what so ever. Cant format discs, cant finalize discs, cant connect to mac, cant afford to waste another boat load of money. Thanks Samsung you thieving pirates!
Why dont industry test these things before they buy stock and pass them on to us customers.

terrible..absolutely terrible..couldnt finalise any discs after the first one wasted valuable footage please DO NOT BUY ONE. disgusting aftersales service from argos and samsung,, bad video unfreindly to use poor, poor ,poor ,poor to say the very best about this peice of absolute trash

only had Samsung VP-DC161 camcorder a few months and it stop working. would not recommend to anyone.

I love the compactness of the Samsung VP-DC161, but i hate the battery power! The battery lags! But guess what? - I bought a replacement battery from Maplin Electronics for £9.99 and now I'm recording for upto 3 hours on the trot!

I've had this camcorder for 18 months now. The first one broke after 2 weeks with disk errors/freezing etc... I took in back to Argos who offered me a refund or an exchange. Stupidly I went for an exchange. It then broke again two days out of warranty. Argos were excellent and sent it off for repair. Since then it has been for repair a further two times and it is as bad as ever. Battery shows as full and then goes to empty in less than one minute. If camcorder loses power, which it does regulary, then disk can't be finalised and recording can never be played on a DVD player. We've just been on a short break and the camera worked fine for 20 minutes. The disk we had in was a 60 minute disk, but due to previous problems I decided to finalise so I wouldn't lose my recording. Upon asking it to finalise it came up with disk error and kept switching itself off. Then when I got the camera to come back on it said there was no disk in the camera. I'm going back to Argos today with a copy of all these reviews as this product should have been withdrawn from sale. It obviously has many faults most relating to the software within the camcorder. Fingers crossed Argos take upo my case. Under any circumstances and no matter how cheap DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT

Bought this camera just over a year ago so therefore it is out of guarantee. We have only actually used it for 34 minutes.
The only advice we get is to send it for repair which seems a waste of more money. I WISH I HAD SEEN THESE REVIEWS EARLIER. DO not BUY

My Samsung VP-DC161 regularly crashes or says disk error / disk not loaded when a DVD is in. First broke in a week and this one has just broke 5 days out of warranty. It now seems I've lost my sons Communion I recorded on Sunday.

Hopefully Argos may exchange for another model?

I bought the Samsung VP-DC161 as a panic purchase. It seemed great value and so flexible with the DVD's. The first Camcorder broke within a week. The second one annoys me ever time I use it. The LCD screen is so bad you can hardly see what you are recording on it. I am now going to throw it away and write it off as a mistake purchase. REALLY, don't waste your money on it.

I am so glad I found this website as I thought it was me having a technophobic moment with my Samsung VP-DC161 camera! This product is absolute rubbish. Please, please do not buy it - it is an utter waste of money.