Samsung DVD-R145 DVD Recorder

by Samsung

Product Details

• Item Weight: 4.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000EHMIPO
• Item model number: DVD-R145
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,090 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

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Standing less than 2.5 inches tall, Samsung's stylishly black DVD-R145 is one of the most powerful entertainment recording and playback devices available today. It offers the widest assortment of DVD recording compatibility, featuring DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, and re-writable DVD-RAM as well as Dual-Layer DVD+/-R--enabling you to store up to 8.5 GB of video on these two-sided discs. Additionally, the DVD-R145 provides a time-slip function when recording onto DVD-RAM discs--enabling you to pause or skip backwards/forwards through a recording that's active.

The DVD-R145 is 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. To produce an upconverted picture, your high-def TV must have an HDMI connection (and HDCP support)--the 720p/1080i choice is only available when using the HDMI cable (which is not included). Also note that the DVD-HD1080 is not a high-definition DVD player (i.e., not to be confused with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players, which play specially formatted high definition discs), so it will work with your existing DVD library.

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. This unit also offers CM (commercial) advance, enabling you to skip ads from recorded TV programming recorded. Other features include CM (commercial) advance, STB (set-top box) control, and DivX playback. In addition to its ability to play back all current DVD formats, it's also compatible with CD-R/RW discs and MP3 audio and JPEG image files.

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:

• HDMI: 1 out
• 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
HDMI is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV--all over a single cable. HDMI supports standard, enhanced or high definition video, plus multi-channel digital audio on a single cable. It supports all ATSC formats--standard (SDTV), enhanced (EDTV), and high (HDTV).

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

Product Description

Samsung DVD-R145 DVD Recorder

Customer Reviews

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100 of 104 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars By Far The Best Multi On The Market Today, July 6, 2006

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Gary Strickfaden (Lynnwood, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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I don't normally write reviews on products but in this case I feel I must share the value and features of this product. You can't go wrong in selecting this player/recorder for your DVD needs. The quick start guide is just that "quick" and well planned. The people at Samsung know how to write manuals and this manual is the best I have seen well documented with pictures (in full color) and just that step-by-step for the novice. The setup diagram is excellent. The features are numerous you can throw any discs you have left over from other recording machines and through it in takes three seconds to intialize (any disc) and away you go. One touch record starts immediately. The quality is superb especially in High Definition. I couldn't wait to get it after reading the reviews from the last Electronics Trade Show so I was able to get it from back East about three weeks ago. Finalizing discs is a snap and easy I have had difficulty formatting on other machines but the Samsung is so easy the on-screen menu is good and the remote is easy to navigate even with my big fingers! It will play mp3s, CDs, computer made DivX movies, Region 1 DVDs, Picture discs from your computer and you can make your own movies from your camcorder or video camera and burn on the fly. You can also program your other electronics into the remote but you must know the manufacturer's codes which they list in a handy guide. If you are shopping for a multi recorder/player search no more get this one you won't be disappointed.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed and returning #2, October 19, 2006

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M. Press "Scrimpets" (Paola, KS) - See all my reviews
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This is an update to my previous review from 10/19/06. I'm returning the second one now. The picture freezes completely during regular playback of DVD-RAM discs. You press fast forward and it just freezes. You stop and play again and the picture is jagged. Very disappointing because the features are excellent. The previous unit froze during chase playback.

I am on my second Samsung DVD-R145 in two months. First, the things I like: great picture quality, excellent user interface, and I especially like the MP3 playback (specifically, the ability to create a playlist and to play tracks in random order, not all DVD recorders provide those functions). Second, the minor annoyances that may just become major: during "chase playback" (using DVD-RAM discs, watching the program currently being recorded), after fast-forwarding and then pressing play, the picture jitters consistently. You have to press STOP and then press PLAY again in order to stop the jittering. Then there's the bigger issue of synchronization of sound and picture. Many programs that I've recorded, when played back, do not have the picture and sound synchronized - and they can be off pretty badly, too, not just milliseconds. The first unit did that and I ignored it most of the time but now that the second unit does it, I am losing my patience. Add to that the fact that when I contacted Samsung about it, after finally getting a response to my e-mail (8 days), the recommendation was to record at "a better speed." I record at LP. Not the end of the world, and I've never had this synchronization problem with any other DVD recorder (Panasonic, Toshiba). So that's not helping. I will wait and see but I suspect I'll return this one too and go with yet another brand (I can't seem to find the right combination of quality and features).

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible, November 10, 2006

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R. T. Joyce "RTJ" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung DVD-R145 DVD Recorder (Electronics)

Am very disappointed with both the unit and Samsung service. The unit started rejecting all discs...no matter what format...after only two weeks. Samsung service insisted that I try a cleaning disc before they do anything. They couldn't understand that the unit was rejecting ALL discs.

After another two calls it took a full week to get authorization to send it out for repair. The unit has been sitting at their designated repair facility for two weeks now "waiting for parts". No one can tell me what is specifically wrong and Samsung will not just replace the unit.

I can only say this is a very bad Samsung experience.