Samsung DVD-SH893 HDD Recorder – Black
Posted by Notcot on May 5, 2010 in Home Cinema & Video |
Product Description
The DVDSH893M is a DVD recorder with 160GB and player with a built in hard drive. Record your favourite shows directly to the DVD player and enjoy excellent image quality playback. The DVDSH893M comes in a stylish black finish and is sure to enhance your home entertainment experience, whether you’re enjoying your DVD collection or recording a show.
- SAMSUNG DVD PLAYER AND RECORDER WITH HARD DRIVE
- 1 x HDMI CONNECTION AND 1 X SCART CONNECTION
- IN BLACK
- 160GB HARD DRIVE CAPACITY
This has to be the worst piece of electronics I have ever bought.
The user manual is awful, without even a contents page to flick to the correct page. The system is very slow to load, the tv-guide often only shows some of the programmes available.
When you scroll through different channels on the tv-guide, it has to refresh the page every time you scroll down to further channels, and if you try pressing “down” too many times, it will keep shifting down outwith your control until it catches up with itself.
What is not explained clearly at all is that in order to set a programme to record (from the tv-guide) you then have to turn the machine to stand-by in order for it to work (so you can’t watch another programme). If you are recording a live programme, you can’t access the Tv-guide any more.
If you pause a recorded programme, after a short period of time (approx 5mins) it will auto-stop, go back to live tv, allowing no option of going back to the same point in your recording, just using the painfully slow manual fast-forward feature to try and find your same place in the programme again.
I cannot believe a manufacturer as established as Samsung can release such an awful piece of merchandise, they should be disgraced with themselves. I have a degree in media/IT so lack of user ability is not the problem!!
Please please if you read this, take my advice and never buy this awful machine. (I returned mine straight back to Amazon within 3days of receipt).
Rating: 1 / 5
Thought it was me at first, after trying to work everything out my wife and I booked in for therapy!
Never had a worse piece of equipment, felt like throwing it out of the window.
Other reviews say it all, cannot add anything else, certainly nothing positive.
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BUY THIS MACHINE IF YOU VALUE YOUR SANITY!!
Rating: 1 / 5
This product was purchased as I have a Samsung TV and wanted a HDD Recorder from the same manufacturer.
Also, Samsung HDD Recorders are cheaper than Sony and Panasonic.
I have used this product for 3 weeks and have finally decided today to return it.
It’s very slow flicking through the channels when you want to record.
When it does record a programme and you want to view it, the title is not shown.
Generally the product is very slow and cumbersome to use all over.
I have to agree with all the negative comments that have been said by those that have reviewed this product prior to me.
I will probably spend a bit more on a Sony or Panasonic HDD Recorder!
Rating: 1 / 5
Well I really don`t know where to start! This is quite possibly the worst piece of equipment I have ever purchased. Lets put it this way, I`ve never felt the urge to leave a review before, but I really do feel that people should be warned away from this monstrosity! Don`t get me wrong, it is a beautiful looking machine, the soft touch controls on the front panel are a great feature and the picture quality is superb! None of that is of course relevant if the damn thing is un-usable, and that is exacly what it is.
The response from the remote control is to say the least slow, to be more acurate, painful!!
The timer record function will not engage whilst the machine is on, it has to be in standby. If it`s not in standby, an insignificant red light flashes on the recorder to tell you it`s doing absolutely nothing and there is about nill you can do to recover your lost recording! A very useful feature, about as useful as replacing novocaine with anadin for dental extractions!
Fortunately for me, this machine was horribly unreliable and it came to an abrupt hardware demise after only 4 weeks. I hence replaced it with a Panasonic machine costing me an extra £60.00. Having used the Panasonic, I would have gladly paid an extra £150.00, that should give an indication of how absolutely terrible the Samsung is. Save your sanity and don`t buy one!
Rating: 1 / 5
This certainly the biggest disappointment I’ve ever had when buying a HiTech item.
Although it does (almost but not quite) all the things claimed, the user interface
is so terrible that I get annoyed every time I use it (every day !). I almost wrote
to Samsung to ask if I had a Beta version of the software, but I never did. I can now
at least try and warn others…
The stupidities are too numerous to mention, but here is a shortened list:
**When you have a timer recording set up – it will not start to record if the unit is
still switched ON (is this software from a VHS recorder?). You can record something
and watch something else as well (small mercies!) but the recording (or timer) must
be already running before you press play – or no deal.
**The Marker system is almost unuseable because you have to remember which marker number
corresponds to which recording. Just to make the game more interesting – when you
erase something that is Marked – the other Marker numbers shuffle around !
**The editing system is nightmarish, and you cannot use Markers that you placed during
previous watching. Gone are the days with my Panasonic where I would watch a film,
“Chapter” the adverts – then all the edits were done before writing to DVD. Even if
you know that a film is so many minutes long, there is no way to jump to that point
during the editing process. You have to watch the program run through ( at x64 max )
and wait.
**You cannot choose the recording speed (SP/LP etc )to HD when you are using the internal
tuner. Also you cannot record to DVD at a different speed than the HD recording !!!
This means that where I always put two films on one single layer DVD in LP, now I can’t.
Well that’s enough moaning – I hope it puts you off considering this horrible device.
Even though I’ve only had mine for about 5 months I think I’ll treat myself to Christmas
present of another HDD recorder !
Rating: 1 / 5