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Samsung DVD-SH893 HDD Recorder - Black |  | Brand: Samsung
Category: CE
Buy New: £162.95
as of 10/3/2010 03:58 PST details
New (10) Used (1) Refurbished (1) from £116.44
Seller: Reliant Direct
Rating:  14 reviews
Color: black
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.4
Dimensions (in): 20.1 x 15.4 x 5.6
MPN: DVD-SH893M/XEU
Model: DVD-SH893M/XEU
EAN: 8808993247189
Release Date: March 16, 2009
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Samsung DVD-SH893M 160GB DVD/ HDD Recorder
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 14
 A curious curate's egg February 21, 2010
Mr. Stephen Doubleday (The Planet Zog)
Well, nearly all the reviews are accurate. The truth is somewhere between the highest and the lowest. The recording is good; the basic function is 5* and the upscaling DVD playback is pretty good. The sound output on an RCA output is pretty decent and through my Sony DAVS 550 much better than the direct feed from the TV through the same kit. The sound is a problem, because if you watch TV through the box because of the superior sound, you find that any recording you've queued up will not start, as other reviewers have said.
The remote and the interface with the remote is easily the most frustrating thing I've ever come across; if you are at all impatient then treat this review as 0*; you will hate this piece of kit with an absolute passion and even I who've grown to tolerate it's strange lacunae with a certain amused shrug occasionally resort to screaming at it. This is because if you want to edit anything (and god, that's an absolute trial with the remote) you can only use the remote. I searched for a while for something I could drag recorded files off that machine, edit on PC and then burn back, but couldn't find this. And don't get me onto picking letters using arrows on a selection panel on screen where it sometimes picks up a key press and others steadfastly turns its back. One one occasion I ended up pressing the remote 2" from every part of the beast trying to get it to move from "a" to "b"....
The EPG is soooo sloooooooooooooooow. It will populate according to some strange algorithm which the engineers at Samsung do not use for their TVs. The EPG on my Samsung TV is lightning fast; as the signal to the TV goes through the PVR, it's not the signal. The loading time of the machine's firmware is the same as a PC's with a load of software on it. It's about 30-60 seconds depending on the phase of the moon. The recording from HDD to DVD is very slow, it feels like almost realtime. Finally, setting the clock can be a real pain in the arse. Why Samsung didn't find some way to absorb the time from the network (as I could do with my old Mitsubishi VCR) and thus guarantee accuracy is beyond me. I second the comments about non-control of recording mode - that can be more frustrating than you might think if you're recording a series because if you record one thing in one mode and another in a different one, when you try and burn both to the same DVD you will find that it refuses to do so.
Picture a grown (and aging) man screaming at the thing "But you selected the modes and I'm only recording this so why are the modea different?". Pass. Don't try too long looking in the manual, it's long, it's detailed and doesn't tell you much that's useful. It's written by a nerd for ultra-nerds. I am a bit of a nerd, but I don't want to be one when I'm simply recording something.
But, for all its strange quirks and unbelievably frustrating idiocies, it actually does the basic functions very well, once you learn it's peculiar habits.
 Samsung DVD Recorder January 27, 2010
Mr. J. V. C. Hall (Swindon, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Got this before Christmas, had the samsung TV, got the Blu Ray Home Cinema System and this together. If you read the other reviews you'll see people talking about the menu system and believe me it's true. Luckly I have sky so just using this to transfer programs from sky + box and onto discs, so dont have to use the confusing menus.
I dont know much about TV recordings as I dont set that, but I've had this a month and still trying to get programs onto disc (currently speaking to samsung). Manual is really complicated, tells you loads how to play a disc etc, but has one paragraph about how to move content from the Hard Drive to the disc. Doesnt seem to give you the option to compress anything, so if you record a film in hi res for 2 hours you're stuck as it wont give you the option to put it on disk cos it's too big. You can split it, but the system automatically links it so wants to copy both at the same time.
Anynet does have some features if you connect it with HDMI 1.3 lead (note 1.3, check the packet when you buy a lead), as it allows you to record directly from the TV menu.
Unless you are desperate to have a samsung recorder I would really look else where.
Just don't put yourself through it January 3, 2010
A. Martin (Belfast)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Never again will I buy a Samsung anything. Used it with my Samsung TV. I say used, it is useless. Utterly and totally. The technical failings are all listed in other reviews. I have just packed it up and am taking it back tomorrow. By the way, the sound quality on my Samsung TV is appalling too.
 Good Functionality December 22, 2009
J. Dorcheh (UK)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This DVD Recorder has a good set of functionality and good value for money. Also many of the problems from the previous reviews have been resolved through the new Firmware upgrade.
Wish I could give this 0 stars December 13, 2009
C. Clark (Leeds, UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is quite simply the worst piece of electronic equipment I've ever owned, 1/5 stars is far more than this product deserves. It has put me off ever owning another Samsung device. DO NOT BUY THIS.
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