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Samsung DVD-SH893M
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Easily store all your favourite programmes and have them ready to watch thanks to the spacious 160GB hard Drive. With a built in digital tuner and freeview playback you'll have access to a wide range of freeview channels. As well as a host of free-to-air channels at your finger tips the DVD-SH893M also includes a multi format DVD recorder. easy to use menu's makes recording your favourite programmes extremely simple, and your DVD movies will also look great thanks to HDMI connectivity and Full HD upscaling.
Features of the Samsung DVD-SH893M include:
- HDD DVD Recorder (160GB)
- 720P / 1080I / 1080P Up-scaling
- Playback Media: DVD-VIDEO / DVD-RAM / DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD+R / DVD+RW / HDD
- Playback Formats: MPEG2 / MPEG4 / DIVX (DIVX3.1 ~ DIVX6) / AUDIO CD / JPEG
- CD Ripping
- HDMI out
- HDMI CEC (Anynet+)
Samsung DVD-SH893M Consumer Reviews
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Reviewed by terry on 07/01/2012
ibought dvd -sh983m 1 yer ago know the ariel signal has gone off has any1 else had problems thank you
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Reviewed by kenneth gillion on 19/12/2011
bought this thinking that if i got a good make it would last but have just realised that the dvd,playing side is faulty. wont get fooled again.
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Reviewed by Iain Macdonald on 19/12/2011
Bought this heap of junk from a Comet clearance centre near Glasgow ( an impulse buy as it was under £50). wish I had read the previous comments before I bought it. It doesn't record as it thinks the HDD disc is full even thoough it is completely empty. I took it back to Comet the next day and the store technician told me there was nothing wrong with it and basically implied that I was lying when i brought it back. I would give this product one out of five as it is basically an expensive DVD player, and give Comet clearance zero for customer service. Buyer beware!
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Reviewed by abbo on 24/10/2011
got this product last dec sent for repair today for third time have spokproduct againen to samsung no joy will never knowingly buy any of their
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Reviewed by Angela on 13/09/2011
Its a shame that the rating does not give an 'OUTSTANDINGLY POOR'. This product should not be on the market! I spent hours poring over the incomprehensible manual before finding this site and realising that the fault was not mine. The recorder works sometimes, sometimes not, and at times records half a programme, either finishing early or starting halfway through. It also appears to be recording when it is not, refuses to cancel a recording unless switched off at the plug and is generally a frustrating pile of junk. I will never buy another Samsung Product!!
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Reviewed by john p smith on 15/07/2011
In May 2010 I purchased a 42" 3D Samsung HDTV plus a SH893M DVD recorder based on advice from Curry's Witney store. The first attempt at set-up by their installer was abysmal as the installer had no product training for the items concerned. On complaining bitterly the TV was exchanged and another installation attempted. This was only marginally more successful, and after the installer left I found that 8/10 times I tried to use the DVD unit a message appeared on screen saying 'No signal, check connections'. A week later I purchased a Toshiba combi unit (DVD/HDD/VCR recorder) and have never had any problem whatsoever. My neighbour helps me with day to day shopping as I am riddled with arthritis so I gave the Samsung DVD unit to him two days ago (bearing in mind it has not even been switched on for 13 months), but he reports the unit must be defective as he has not been able to get the unit to set up cleanly at all on his system, let alone record on the DVD drive. He, like me, finds the TV signal through the unit frequently drops out, fragments and worse locks the unit completely from Remote control access to its features. I would never buy another Samsung product, in fact I will be purchasing a new HDTV soon so I can get rid of the Samsung 3D unit I have. Samsung should be ashamed to put rubbish like this onto the market for unsuspecting buyers to purchase. If this happened in the USA there would have been a class action by now and a full recall demanded. Of course this is Britain and our toothless Trading Standards mandarins are so unco-ordinated on a national level that it is pointless expecting them to take the whip to Samsung!
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Reviewed by david phillipson on 01/07/2011
DO NOT BUY I was going to write an extensive list of things that are fundamentally wrong with this unit on top of all the problems that other people have encountered, however having now returned two of them and got my money back and bought a hitachi unit I am completely happy with, I have decided not to waste any more of my time on Samsung. I only wish I'd looked at this website before purchasing and saved myself a lot of agrovation, wasted time, unrecorded programs and fruitless emails and calls to Samsung. This unit is clearly flawed from top to bottom, the disturbing thing is that it is still on sale and people are innocently buying them. Samsung should be taking off the shelves surely? I feel sorry for people that have purchased from Currys and are unable to get a refund, they are however in a position to smash it up, run over it with a car, liquidise it and feed it to the cat. If someone could film it and put it on you tube you'd make a lot of people laugh! I would give the unit and Samsung customer service zero stars if I could and will not touch any of their products again. DO NOT BUY
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Reviewed by lynn on 25/05/2011
Absolute rubbish, had no end of problems with this, thought a Samsung product would have been good but we had programs freeze, end of recordings cut off, menu has froze and we had to switch the thing off and on again to get it going, missing programs on menu guide, remote slow and sometimes unresponsive. Took it back to Comet within two weeks for a refund but guess what? Comet don't do refunds even if it's faulty, they try a repair, so if you buy from Comet you are stuck with it... Do not buy.
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Reviewed by phylogeek on 13/05/2011
Hunk off Junk, now having to connect computer to TV to watch a regular DVD (1.5 year old!). If there was 0 rating it would be getting that from me - glitchy from the beginning, After this experience and Samsung royally screwing up the Galaxy S mobile phone firmware situation - will think again before touching their products. Useless Tech.
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Reviewed by adrian pritchard on 16/04/2011
samsung sh893m bought for christmas already been in for repairs to argos supposed to have new software installed.it's rubbish.will only record 12 series link recordings.no good going on holidays.cant tell what programs have been recorded only channel and time are displayed.recordings keep on freezing(very good signal).i recorded a program on a series link as the same program was on twice a day it doubled up the recording so restricted the recordings i wanted to record very limited(maximum of 12 series link programs) manual rubbish too complicated. rang customer service no help at all
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Reviewed by sykedelic on 23/03/2011
A girlfriend of mine who had purchased a DVD/HD recorder model DVD-SH893M was having difficulty finding the actual name of the program she had recorded. It just seemed to display the channel, time and duration. What should be basic functionality of record and playback seemed to be missing from the product. Having not seen a recording machine that fails to record program information since the days of the VCR I urged her to write to Samsung Customer Services to see if there was some mistake or at least opportunity to upgrade the firmware. Alas all she got was a standard impersonal reply letter not even recognising the nature of the query. Two frustrating phone calls later having navigating multiple tedious menu systems she eventually got to speak to technical support who confirmed negative on both fronts. So they confirmed that the product is not fit for the purpose for which it was sold but offered not apology,rebate or solution. Shoddy product. Shoddy treatment. Don't waste your money!
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Reviewed by Ocean Driver on 09/03/2011
I bought my SH893M from Currys just over a year ago and cannot believe that I didn't throw it back at them soon after I got it! Being a tolerant chap, I tried to get to grips with the ridiculous manual, put up with the constant screen freezing, accepted that actually it wasn't possible to record anything and watch another program at the same time, and the unbelievably slow remote control processing! When you go into the live program index, half of the detail is missing...........etc. ect. AND, I live in an area of pretty good signal. My LG TV is now connected direct to the aerial, and with built in freeview, the picture is incredible, the remote control response and program index are instantaneous. Generally, I am a Samsung fan, but this bit of kit is just rubbish! Now, I have gone over the warranty period, the DVD player element has started to refuse to load films and blocks on "menu" I have replaced the whole thing with a basic Upscaling HDMI DVD player, and will manage without the recorder part that is, on this machine, of no use to man or beast! I have been in touch with Samsung support who advised me to download an update onto a USB data stick. I did this, and fed it into the SH893 front panel. Despite 100 and something pages of manual, I can find no info that tells you how to install updates. Tomorrow, I am going to sacrifice this machine by hacking it to death with a pickaxe, driving over it with my car, grinding it in a liquidizer and feeding the residue to my neighbours cats! Alternatively, I will send the whole package back to Samsung and ask them to credit me the full amount I paid as the item was never fit for the purpose! (I may need some support for this one........anyone out there on my side?) Isn't it amazing that you can spend over £200 on an item of this sort, tolerate it a few months, and realise very quickly that it has absolutely no value whatsoever, replace it with a Tesco special offer deal at £34 and be much better off.
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Reviewed by Brian S on 02/03/2011
Had this for about a year. Not very user friendly and very slow to operate. Recording and playback functions work well on hdd but dvd has developed a fault which indicates that the disc is the wrong regional code, even though it played perfectly the day before! It really does have a mind of its own. Poor manual for reasons already stated in previous reviews. I cannot recommend this to anyone.
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Reviewed by Steve on 17/02/2011
Biggest pile of junk ever. I have always liked Samsung but this is truly awful. Firstly when a dvd is playing it makes a horrendous noise that makes me feel like I have a bad case of tinitus.Secondly everything takes ages like turning it on, ejecting dvds, loading a dvd. Thirdly it plays a dvd and then decides it no longer wishes to play that same dvd when you go to watch it again!! Until that is, you switch it on and off again at least 10 times. I can't tell you how close I have come to hurling the damn thing against the wall! But my wife assures me that we may get a couple of quid for it on ebay......I doubt it!
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Reviewed by Veronica on 10/02/2011
Bought this just before Christmas together with an LG HDD television. Friend installed both and they worked fine for about four weeks. The Samsung SH893M then started to record when it felt like it (or rather not). Now it is losing the Freeview connection via the RF lead from the tv. You find this out when pressing Menu and it won't give you the tv guide. I have had to read the instructions myself (not very clear) and learned how to reset it. Then again it says No Signal and only has 3 of the 4 terrestial channels (why only 3 I wonder) I have to reset it almost every other day. Will be trying to get a refund.
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Reviewed by js on 07/02/2011
heap of junk!!.worked well at first,then after a few months seemed to have a mind of its own.recorded when it felt like it and now all it does is turn itself on and off every couple of seconds while ejecting and inserting disc at same time.hope its still under warranty.minus 1 rating
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Reviewed by Malcolm on 22/01/2011
Had the misfortune to come across one of these today, when a neighbour asked me to see if I could help her get it working, having already had help from a family member. She asked because I'm normally quite good with tecky things, having helped with previous computer problems. Can only echo much of what has gone before. User manual is awful and poorly printed in a small font to add to it's failings. The machine does not seem to follow logical thoughts either, if you try to work it out for yourself. She had recorded 3 programs onto HDD, but try as we could, no way would they play back. Samsung website is even worse than the manual, having tried that for help. However, like a previous reviewer, I found there was a fairly recent (Nov 2010) firmware upgrade on the support site, so thought I'd download and install that. Did it to USB stick, but nowhere is there any instruction about what to do with it. Out of desperation, I did ring their helpline. A little help, although clearly overseas and not that easy to understand. Final question to him was about the firmware upgrade. Told me to make sure file wasn't in a folder after unzipping it and it would recognise it and upgrade firmware. Well, surprise surprise, it doesn't. Having read the reviews on here and printed off a copy for her, I've suggested she take it back (a Xmas present) and swap it for any make other than Samsung.
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Reviewed by TJ on 11/01/2011
This product is rubbish. Mine has now died on me after just 2 half years. The dvd player was unpredictable, only played when it felt like it, after several tries of putting the disc in. Don't buy even if it's in the sale. Bad product.
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Reviewed by Dr J B on 27/12/2010
Absolutely disgusting product that should be subject to a serious review and banned from UK shelves. Not even compatible with my Samsung tv, which thank goodness works a treat. I am only glad I can return this product tomorrow!
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Reviewed by Mo on 23/12/2010
What a heap of rubbish. Tried for almost a week to understand the manual, still can't.Cannot get to grips with recording onto HDD and DVD side cannot get to record either! All the gismo lights on the front fascia give the impression something is going on,but,no. What a waste. Thought Samsung could do better than this. I want my money back!!
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Reviewed by Darr on 16/12/2010
this by far the most over complicated hard to use, freeveiw box on the sale im sure. waste of money and time trying to make it work.....
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Reviewed by Paula on 03/11/2010
I agree with most of the comments, mine worked fine for 2months. It has now decided to take forever to format a disc, it then says there is no memory on the disc to record after the formatting, it freezes and has to be switched off. But then cannot eject the disc as it automatically formats the disc again and again and so on. Not happy at all with this piece of rubbish. I wouldnt give it a 1 either.
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Reviewed by Nige on 25/10/2010
Easy to use and far better than my other sony....in fact the wife can manage it !!! Who needs twin tuners !!! Just use a coax and a scart and watch tv on the tv tuner while it records...unless of course you have a old analogue tv
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Reviewed by Mick on 17/10/2010
Bought about a year ago. Very happy with the quality of the machine, however I find it quite complicated to operate. You have to put it into standby to do a delayed recording and the time shift function is really fiddly. Apart from that I think its a good machine with good size hard drive.
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Reviewed by Samsung Tripe on 04/10/2010
Its going back. Agree with all the comments below. Shame I cant rate it as a zero
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Reviewed by Norman Simpson on 03/10/2010
I have had this a while without really using it until recently! DVD doesn't like discs whether to play or record on! The HDD is OK, so long as it's not your main viewer, IT IS NOT a TWIN TUNER, you have to watch what your recording! One thing in it's favour is that when it has accepted a disc, it copies from the hard drive very quickly! Also it doesn't hold it's memory, if you programme it to record a series, it doesn't, you have to keep checking it & re-programming! To be fair if it functioned properly it would be worth £200+, as it is, with it's bugs and single tuner, IT ISN'T WORTH IT!
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Reviewed by Stuart Thompson on 20/09/2010
Bought my Samsung DVD-SH893M about a year ago due to the spec and it had a very handy USB port for transferring avi's from the pc. but I am very dissappointed with it, I've had nothing murder with it from day one, it freezes while watching TV, it freezes while watching a DVD, it freezes during a timed recording so you come back and find only 19 mins of a film you wanted to see, i went on holiday for two weeks and put set it on series link to record only to find it had frozen during the first attemped recording. I put it down to it possibly being a Friday afternoon model and put up with it coz I got it in a sale, but now I feel like smashing-up this useless piece of junk.
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Reviewed by Gerald Adams on 05/08/2010
Believe everything you read in the other reviews! Currys refused to change it at first until I showed them the other reviews. It is virtually impossible to begin to describe how bad this product is. I bought a Samsung TV at the same time and chose the Samsung DVD recorder so that it would be more compatible with the Samsung TV. How wrong I was, the recorder is not even compatible with itself. This does not belong in the "Poor" category, you should include another category called "appalling", as that is where this product belongs. Currys seem oblivious to this products faults and continue to recommend it.
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Reviewed by allan on 01/07/2010
complete pile of junk !
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Reviewed by Jez on 15/06/2010
This is incredible that such a product hits the shelves.My dear mother bought one of these horrors and I lost 4 hours of my life trying to understand the manual and trying to get it to record.I don't need to repeat any of the comments below needless to say if your are considering one of these avoid like the plague.Samsung you ain't done yourself any favours with this one.
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Reviewed by Dave on 05/05/2010
A replacement sent to me for the 7month old 875 model they couldn't repair as parts are no longer available - lasted 4 months then loads problems - takes half an hour to load, then further 45 minutes before the remote stops being ignored, only records the audio from freeview, and viewing freeview disasterous as it freezes, jumps, goes blank, then sorts itself, and repeats the cycle every 3-8 mins. Customer service is a joke as they refuse to deal with you except on the phone, and I've screamed several times at the customer service staff who keep you waiting 1minute at a time with silence and dont keep any record of the previous warranty repair call. Oh, and it takes them 4 months to determine the fault and send you a new unit. My friends washing machine (Samsung) pump blew after just days following warranty expiry, and I replaced it with a Hoover machine pump from a 12 year old machine. STAY WELL CLEAR OF ANY SAMSUNG PRODUCT!!
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Reviewed by Ian on 25/04/2010
Have just purchased one on the advise of a sales assistant at Curry's, and am very disappointed that it can't do the simplest task of recording a different channel from the one currently being watched.I agree with all other comments but would add that Curry's have done themselves a disservice in stocking this item. I will be going back to Curry's to see if I can exchange it.
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Reviewed by Peter May on 20/04/2010
To date, have yet to suffer picture freezing complained of by others but the instruction manual appears to be compiled in order to confuse. The font size is far too small and the 'helpful' illustrations are virtually illegible. Mind you, I am in my eighties and it is probably impertinent of me to believe, at my age, that I should be able to understand how to use it without recourse to a spotty teenager or two!
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Reviewed by bill on 19/04/2010
worst dvd ever bought manual is like something out of startrek rocket science for beginners as airline pilot just glad its not a flight manual
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Reviewed by bill on 09/02/2010
This recorder truly is awful ! BEWARE !..anyone thinking of purchasing this model - it has only 1 tuner !! if you dont know what that means[like i did'nt when i bought it for £200 a couple of months ago].. it means YOU CANNOT WATCH A PROGRAM AND RECORD ANOTHER ! it CANNOT carry out the most basic function. its continually freezing and if anyone doe'snt know what that means..its the same as watching a picture on your wall. there is no way around this as its inherant in its technolgy. also, the picture quality on my £14 simz digibox is superior to this piece of junk and the picture flickers as well with this samsung model which is most annoying. The user manual is indiscernable and shoddy and will cause you stress.. the diagrams are all blurred, I have spent countless hours studying it but cannot comprehend most of it. I kid you not..if you purchase this model it WILL cause your blood pressure WILL go up ! 5 weeks ago I tried contacting samsung U.K. head office in Ed inburgh but they have not responded. Last week the picture froze again, then disappeared..I mean no picture at all ! I checked all connections,turned the power off, retuning, etc. but the only thing it could do was tell the time ! ..so back to the store with it and now i'm waiting to get it back...how long will it be before it packs in again ? Purchase this model at your own peril.
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Reviewed by MH on 30/01/2010
My dad brought one of these and couldn't get it to work so I've had a go and still cannot record any prgrammes. I think he's also had problems with freezing pictures. The user manual is useless. I'm going to tell him to take it back.
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Reviewed by Dean Gillies on 29/01/2010
Bought one of these along with a Samsung TV from Curry's for my mother's birthday back in September 09. The TV is fine but this SH893M is a disgrace to Samsung. They should be ashamed of themselves for putting this product onto the market in such a half-baked standard. I agree with the other posts about the poor quality of the documentation, the lack of proper remote integration and the difficulty in operating it. However, all of that aside, it hangs-up randomly when playing DVD's and when recording digital TV. It is truly a heap of junk.
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Reviewed by Andy Oppenheimer on 26/01/2010
I bought my Samsung HDD recorder in Comet in October 09, same prob as below, the screen started freezing during a DVD and while watching TV on the HDMI. Called Samsung, they said there's a FIRMWARE upgrade on their site to rectify the prob, told me to d/load it onto a pen stick, and upload onto the HDD thru the USB port at the front. Tried that, it didn't recognise the file. Tried to do it with file unzipped, and with nothing on the pen stick. Still nothing. Rang Samsung again, they said they would send me a disc with the upgrade on. Got impatient and downloaded FIRMWARE file onto my own DVD blank disc, put uit into the DVD tray. It uploaded Flash something, but not the bloody FIRMWARE. Now tray jammed and machine won't boot up. Samsung siad I have to send it back for repair by courier, which could take a month. Trying local Comet tomorrow to get the DVD tray open. Recommend you ALL contact your dealer + Samsung and complain, and demand the upgrade, or a replacement . My friend recommended this machine, but it seems no one else does!
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Reviewed by Roy on 12/01/2010
I agree with previous comments regarding the extremely poor User manual which concentrates too much on the minutae , which most people will hardly ever use ,and not enough on the basics. What is needed is an initial chapter showing which buttons to press for the required operation. {an'idiot's' guide for people like me) I cannot comment on the 'freeze' on playback - as I have not experienced this - but the recording issues can be overcome. I found it helpful to ring the Samsung helpline. I have previously had 4 Panasonics and with each of them I experienced difficulties in setting up before I got the hang of it. Now I have worked out the Samsung I see no problem with it. I would suggest a little patience is required - although I appreciate this is frustrating. One thing worth noting is that the up-scaling greatly improves the quality of the TV picture.
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Reviewed by Will on 01/01/2010
Pretty awful. Previously had a Panasonic which was 500 times better.
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Reviewed by Tim C on 20/12/2009
Got this to go with Samsung TV as well. User manual is terrible. Managed to record 40 seconds of current programme as a test but then couldn't even do that a 2nd time. Couldn't use TV guide to record programme or complete any further set up
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Reviewed by Daniel & Debby Pattenden on 26/11/2009
Dont buy one of these! It freezes on DVD play back and has to be shut down to make it work, it is very slow on start up.. and like the others say you think its recording but when you sit down later to watch your fave movie... nothing, well sometimes i recorded to adds for 2 min then nothing. free view quality is poor to say the least and the EPG is jumpy and annoying. Dont waste your money even if its £40 on ebay...
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Reviewed by A Beare on 20/11/2009
We bought this from Comet and tried for hours to make it record using the guide. Every time it appeared to be set up to record. At record time the light would come on and it would appear to be recording. But there was never anything on the hard disk! We took it back and Comet tested it in store and agreed there was a fault. They gave us a replacement. We have set up the replacement and it's exactly the same as the original! We are taking it back again and will NOT be getting another! We have a brand new Samsung TV which is ok. But this machine is a joke and the manual in nothing short of a disgrace. I've never read a worse user manual for anything. Utter gibberish.
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Reviewed by L Bennett on 09/11/2009
AVOID AT ALL COSTS! yes the manual is a nightmare, and it takes more pure luck than judgement to get it right. But the main problem was that it started to freeze during playback. It needed a power on/off to get it going again. Then it started freezing during dvd playback then the finally straw was it freezing during recording. Took it back to comet after less than two months and with reluctance they gave us a new one. We had the new one 4hours and it froze during recording, needless to say its going back too!
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Reviewed by Bruce R on 19/10/2009
I agree with Paul. MY model is linked to a samsung flat screen. Manual is full of technical gibberish but no easy instruction. Recording TV programs is hell I stll cannot record by program rather than by time. It is very slow to boot up. It also freezes from time to time and requires a power off/on to reboot. Definitley not a good buy.
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Reviewed by Paul on 18/10/2009
I purchased this unit thinking it would go well with my samsung tv! how wrong was i! For a start the instructions are not clear, the recording side of things are very poor it doesnt label the recording with the title of the programme. when your playing a dvd the whole unit is very noisy. i'm heading back to argos to see if i can change it.
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