Combined AV Devices > Samsung Combined AV Devices

Advantages: Price
Disadvantages: Very poor custome service, poor sound.

Do NOT buy Samsung until you have read this. I bought a brand new DVD-HR720 from Samsung which had muffled sound. I contacted Sansung who got Martin Dawes to try to fix it. After 2 months with it still NOT working Samsung said I should not have contacted them and told me to go back to the seller! Yes after 2 months failing to fix it they said it was not their problem! Why didn’t they tell me that at the start? Along the way they promised ... Read review

Advantages: Great quality recording, Value for money, Detailed English Instructions
Disadvantages: Fiddly remote, Analogue tuner only, DVD-R's only

I bought this for my own use at home. It was really quite easy to set up. I was quite impressed as the manual was all in enlish, unlike some products where you have to flick through all the different languages to find the english instructions!! The manual is quite big though but does have alot of info of how to use it in. The remote that comes with it has quite small buttons and is very long and thin which is not ideal, especially if your one with ...
...The recording quality is fantastic though, but it does take a long time to burn things to the DVD. Another bad point about it is that it will only record on DVD-R blank disks. Another thing is that it only has an analogue tuner which will cause problems when the analogue is turned off in 2009! Overall though, i think that this is worth the money paid!! ... Read review

Advantages: Record from TV/DVD, Excellent for watching movies, has many features
Disadvantages: Expensive upgrades, poor inbuilt speaker, limited for gamers

The Archos 605 WiFi has many features such as the option to record from the television, to surf the internet, it even has the ability to be used as a GPS. One downside is a lot of these features require additional money to be spent. If you're a gamer then you might be a little disappointed by the fact that the with the Archos 605 you will be limited to only playing flash games. The Archos 605 basically just isn't a gaming device. If gaming is your ...
...I did notice about the Archos 605 is that the sound quality of the inbuilt speaker is pretty poor, that being said this isn't totally uncommon with this type of device. When listening to music via the headphones though the quality of the sound is pretty decent. Now for what makes the Archos 605 truly special, it's ability to flawlessly play movies. No conversion, no fuss. Simply plug the Archos 605 to your PC via USB, drag and drop the movie/s of ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to use, good idea in practice
Disadvantages: Poor signal reception, loses recordings, stops working, crashes overnight...

This box has an amazing long list of features but it also has an amazingly long list of problems as well. I first bought the box in early 2005 and it worked well. For a week. Then it stopped working and I got a replacement one. It changed the way I watched the TV, pausing live TV, recording is very simple and playback quality is very high. It can record from two channels at the same time, which is always useful because you wait all wait for something ...
...compete with each other. But with this you can record both! Then one day, I went to play a recording back. No recordings. Unfortunately, any error detected in a recorded can lead the unit to think your hard disk is faulty and it therefore formats it, losing all recordings. There are errors in recordings because my central heating system seems to interfere with the TV signals. The recordings often miss the first or last minute of a program (the ... Read review

Advantages: Low cost
Disadvantages: Dodgy menus, very disk fussy, lousy DVD burner that will fail.

...eventually replaced the DVD burner in mine with a Liteon 20X unit for about £16. This solved the problem, and for the moment, it's been working perfectly. Fitting a replacement burner is straightforward enough, though getting it to neatly fit into the existing front fascia is a bit more challenging. ... Read review