Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87338 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: DVD-HR735/XEU
• Released on: 2006-07-12

Manufacturer's Description:
With a Samsung DVD Recorder, you can build a personal library of DVD movies, TV shows, home video, and audio—all in a high-quality format to last a lifetime. With the DVD-HR735 from Samsung you can enjoy DVD recording in -R and -RW formats with easy to use features plus the benefit of a 160GB hard drive to store your favourite recordings on, whether it be TV, Films, Holiday Photographs or Video footage taken on your camera or camcorder. This really is a versatile product with the ability to record onto DVD or swap recorded material between disc and hard drive. IMAGINE the possibilities. Also features the HDMI connectivity so you can connect and transfer video and audio signals digitally to your TV without any loss of signal quality.

Full Multi Format
Samsung's Full Multi Format DVD recorders work with any type of disc you choose, recording on DVD-RAM/-RW/-R/+RW/+R. You never need to worry about the recording or playback format because Samsung's Full Multi Format DVD Recorder does it all.

HDMITM Output (1080i / 720p)
HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) transfers hi-definition (1080i/720p) video and audio from your DVD Recorder to your TV, Home Theater, or other digital AV components. Simply connect your DVD Recorder to your Home Theater System with a single HDMI cable for the high quality pictures and sound.

Dual Layer Recording (DVD+/-R)
Samsung DVD Recorders are the world's first to let you record on both +R & -R Dual Layer discs. A single dual-layer DVD disc can hold more than 14 hours of programming—so you can archive whole seasons of your favorite TV shows on one disc!

EVQ (Enhanced Video Quality)
EVQ lets you enjoy enhanced picture quality on your TV. The sharper images and truer color reproduction provide an improved viewing experience for movies and home videos.

Cable Box Control
The Cable Box Control on Samsung's DVD Recorders makes timer recording simple. The user-friendly feature turns on your Cable Box and changes channels to record at a preset time. Start recording with only one remote control. Just set your Samsung’s DVD Recorder.

Quick Recording
Don't waste even one second of your precious time waiting to record a program. After pressing the REC button, the time it takes to start recording is one little second. Never miss another scene.

Chapter Creator
The Chaptering feature in Samsung's DVD Recorders creates chapters when you record your favorite TV shows or video clips from a camcorder / VCR onto a DVD—so you won't waste time searching the whole DVD to get to the right spot!

DV Input
The DV Input on the front panel lets you edit and record from a digital camcorder directly single cable—without losing image quality. Simply connect your camcorder to your (IEEE1394). It couldn't be simpler to archive your precious video footage to disc.

Timer Recording
Timer recording lets you record a favorite TV show when you are away from home. Just set the time and the date of the programs you want to record. Your DVD Recorder will automatically start and stop recording at the pre-set time.

One-Touch Recording
The One-Touch Recording button on Samsung's DVD Recorders makes recording easier than ever. When you press the Record button, your Samsung DVD Recorder automatically searches the available disc space and starts recording your selected program. Each press of the button extends recording time by 30 minutes up to a maximum 240 minutes, depending on recording mode. Once the recording is complete, simply press the Play button.

Time Slip Recording (DVD-RAM)
With Samsung's Time Slip technology, you can record and playback from a disc at the same time. That means while you are recording and watching a TV show, you can pause it to take a phone call and then continue watching from where you left off—even while the rest of the show is still being recorded.

VBR Technology
VBR (Variable Bit Rate) technology lets you record up to 12 hours of video on a disc. VBR encoding technology maximizes the available disc space by controlling the compression rate of MPEG2 in real time. With Samsung's Auto Mode, the most suitable bit rate is set automatically according to the remaining capacity immediately before the start of recording.

160 GB HDD
DVD-HR735's huge internal hard drive means you'll always be able to record your favorite show from beginning to end. The 160GB hard drive lets you record and store up to 278 hours of TV programs in EP mode. Then when you're ready, simply edit the boring parts or commercials and copy directly to a DVD.

Quick Dubbing
With the Quick Dubbing function, copying movies from the DVD Recorder's internal hard drive to a DVD disc takes under 8 minutes to transfer a 2-hour movie.

Electronic Program Guide
Gemstar's Electronic Program Guide (EPG) is an easy to use on-screen version of TV GuideTM. You can search for programs by category, set a reminder to let you know when a program is about to start, and program to record with a single press of a button while you are watching a program.

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Customer Reviews

Does everything I want perfectly
After using this DVD recorder for a few weeks I still have yet to find something I don't like about. It was straight forward to setup, it's easy to use, the menu system is easy to navigate, it records great on the HDD or to DVD, it is easy (and quick) to copy from the HDD to DVD, it records to dual-layer DVD's, has plenty of storage space and it looks great.

It is great value for money especially considering it has a HDMI socket (and lead supplied), so unlike normal definition DVD recorders it is quite future proof as it looks good on HD-TV's. It should last me until Hi-def recorders or Blu-ray / HD-DVD recorders come down in price!

I would recommend this to anyone who wants a straight forward no-nonsense recorder, however it isn't lacking on features and has some useful editing features.

Excellent, but a few annoying traits...
Having lived with this machine for a couple of months now I can honestly say it has surpassed my expectations for a DVD recorder. I bought it in the full knowledge that it won't record on the +R/+RW discs which is a "feature" of all but the more expensive Samsung models, presumably because of licensing issues. This really is not an issue; you just need to be careful which discs you buy. Picture quality is also excellent with no artifacts in normal recording mode using Sky (the longer play options progressively degrade the picture quality as expected, but it's still pretty good).

My main complaints would be:

1. the difficulty of recording discs to play in other people's players. I guess this is a problem with all recorders but it surprises me that the major manufacturers can't sort out their format problems between them. Some of the problems I have had are to do with the discs I've used and not the recorder, but some are not. I've discovered that the best way to get this to work is to make recordings that have no menu structure and only a single title on them (for some reason the Samsung's method of creating menus seems to confuse some (but not all) players and multiple titles do likewise), and copies from HDD to DVD should be made at low speed only - the HS copy modes frequently give "dirty disc" errors on my Sony player and others.

2. unfortunately, there is a severe synch problem between audio and picture towards the end of recordings when copied from HDD to DVD at low speed (in synch at the start, out of synch by about a second at the end of a two hour recording). This doesn't happen when recording directly off air, only when copying from HDD to DVD or vice versa. I don't really understand why this would be. Strangely, it doesn't happen on high-speed copies - but then, see problem 1.

3. Annoyingly, like most recording devices, the machine won't start recording a timer recording if it's already turned on at the time the timer is supposed to start. This would be fine, except that because there is no audio pass-through when the machine is turned off, I have to leave it turned on all the time just to watch TV through my amplifier. This has caused me to miss several recordings just because the machine is already on! I can't fathom why recording devices do this anyway and it's extremely frustrating that manufacturers seem to consider this a "feature" when in fact it's the most inconvenient thing I can think of (my VCR does it too, but since it passes the audio through, it's never been a problem as I can just leave the VCR turned off - can't do that with the Samsung).

So there we have it - it's a great machine and at Amazon's price I would recommend it to anyone for recording quality and features (DIVx, HDMI, easy multi-region hack etc, and it was[...]quid more expensive elsewhere), but you have to learn to live with the above little foibles. Except for problem 2 above they are relatively minor niggles anyway which probably occur with all DVD recorders - [...]

Difficult Menus and failed in 3 days
Avoid like the plague - the menu system is anything but intuitive. Then to top things off - mine would just either stop playing or stop recording in HDD mode without warning. Returned to Amazon - next time either one of the Sony models which are user friendly and seem to be reliable or a lite on which seem popular. This is the first poor review I have given an Amazon product - normally the product they sell are excellent, but this time total rubbish.