Samsung DVD-VR320 DVD Recorder
Lacks closed caption (CC) recording to DVD
I bought this through Amazon from J&R. It was $189. I had it for few days, created one disc, and returned it because it does not supoort recording of the closed caption (CC) in the analog input. This is a bummer.   I checked Samsung's web-site and found out that this is by design, on any Samsung DVD recorders. If you want to record any of your analog source; external input, combo VHS, or tuner, and keep the closed caption, you should avoid buying Samsung.   Closed captoning in US is so ubiquitous, it seems to be a big flaw in product design not to support it. The support of this feature should almost be mandated like how all the televisions support showing it. But most of the manufacturers don't even describe whether they support this in their product web-sites.   I am looking for a similar model from other manufacturer that does support this, but due to the lack of information, I am having difficulty slecting a model or manufacturer.  Otherwise, the picture quality of the disc I created was pretty impressive for EP (6 hr in a DVD-R) recording, and the user interface was easy to navigate through. If you don't care about closed captions, this is a good product.    BTW. I understand DVD technology do not adhere very good to analog closed captioning. Analog closed captioning is done by inserting character codes in the vertical blanking interval (VBI) line (21). MPEG2 video encoding used in DVD do not cover this area of the video signal. The captioning system, aka subtitles,  that was designed for DVD is image based. Although DVDs can carry closed captions to be output in the analog format (and some titles actually do), recording it from analog input is not very straght forward. This is a flaw in how te DVD standards were defined. They had no idea that recordable DVD would be used to replace the VHS tapes.