Samsung SV-5000W Worldwide VHS Format VCR
bad conversion quality--not worth the price!
I have been very disappointed in this product.  I bought it to make VHS copies of videos that I have made with my digital video camera and edited.  Converting from NTSC gives a low quality product in general.  There is a vibration or pulsation in all white or light colored areas which is VERY distracting.  But worse than this, when I input from the NTSC video camera and make a copy on VHS (whether converting or not), there is a real problem with the audio.  A  buzz that intermittantly accompanies the sound--and it was this way straight out of the box.  It makes for a very poor quality video and I paid over $500 for it 3 years ago.  Unfortunately, I did nothing about it until after the warranty had expired.  So I took it to a Samsung repair shop in Rome expecting to pay for the repairs myself.  Unfortunately, that wasn't even an option.  They told me that it was badly made from the start and there was nothing to be done about it.  I feel burned!