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Samsung DVD-SH893 HDD Recorder - Black
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Released: 2009-03-16 Rating:  More Details: Samsung DVD-SH893 HDD Recorder - Black Samsung DVD-SH893 HDD Recorder - Black @Amazon Samsung DVD-SH893 HDD Recorder - Black @aStore |
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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.
Customer Reviews:
PLEASE BUY A PANASONIC
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!
An elecronic nightmare!!
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!!
Too slow to view channels
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!
Tricky to use, but otherwise sound 
Even given the amount of 'previous' within the VHS/DVD player industry, this was a new low in remote-control unfriendly technology. It takes an age to work out how to use the thing and even after a few months there are still dozens of buttons that I have yet to find a purpose for. The user's manual does not seem to have been written by humans either. Having said that, the actual player seems to work ok, though if like us, you are viewing freeview services through the DVD player (i.e. you don't have a separate digital receiver for your tv) then be prepared for quite a wait each time you turn the tv on while the DVD player warms up, plus you don't seem to be able to watch any other digital channels other than the one you're trying to record (which defeats many of the purposes of recording in the first place). Average.
Absolutely awful
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).
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