Samsung DVD-V2000 DVD-VCR Combo
Don't listen to the whiners - this is NOT a noisy unit!
Either people have REAL sensative hearing, or do not like Samsung, or they are reviewing the WRONG piece of equipment.<br />I am here to tell you that this machine is fabulous. I connected the cable to it and plugged it into the wall. After a few minutes, the time was configured and the channels were programmed. I didn't do a thing!<br />The VCR plays SVHS tapes. It's NOT noisy AT ALL except for rewind. But, I rewound a 2 hour tape from the end and in about 10 seconds, it was done! But, playback and recording are NOT noisy and are quiet. These people must be muting their sets because I cannot for the life of me hear the noise from either the DVD player nor the VCR WHILE a tape or DVD is playing.<br />Yes, there are some clicking noises from the DVD as it loads up, but so what? Sheesh. Picky, picky, picky. After the movie starts, I don't hear a thing. Heck, the volume from my TV drowns out any noises that it might create. This is as bad as some reviews that stated a machines noise drowned out jets taking off from the airport nearby. I think that's going a little overboard.<br />The programmable tape functions are great. Daily (Mon-Fri), Weekly (Suns thru Sats), 8 events for up to a month in advance, setting each program to a different taping speed. This unit has most of what I need.<br />It's DTS compatible, Dolby Digital Surround and for those like me that do not have a decoder, the Virtual 3D sound works fine and gives a pretty fair rendering of surround sound.<br />The picture from the DVD and the VCR is crisp and sharp, and the colors are great.<br />Audio inputs are on both the front and back. Audio outputs are on the back, with composite video, S-Video and Component outputs available. That pretty much guarantees a rare connection failure. Heck, the DVD output can go out through the coaxial cable TV out so that you don't have to have an RF Modulater for TVs that do NOT contain RCA input plugs.<br />You can watch a DVD WHILE recording a show on the VCR.<br />The remote can be programmed for the more popular brands of TVs out there. I had no problems with getting my RCA TV programmed into the remote.<br />For those that are complaining, I would take those with a grain of salt. No noise, no tapes being eaten and I've even played audio CDs and MP3s with no problems. The only problem I DID run into was right after I put in a CD-R with MP3's on it (which it automatically found and started playing), once I started to play back DVDs, they wouldn't work well at all. I turned the unit off and then back on and the DVD's worked fine. But, I don't see myself using this as an MP3 player anyways.<br />VCDs seemed to work sporatically, but again, I don't really care too much about those. DVDs are the main thing as well as VHS tapes for my children.<br />Overall, an excellent buy. Better than the HIFI JVC VHS machine I bought along with it for the upstairs family room. That went back.<br />This is a great machine for the money. Get it.remote can be programmed for the more popular brands of TVs out there. I had no problems with getting my RCA TV programmed into the remote.<br />For those that are complaining, I would take those with a grain of salt. No noise, no tapes being eaten and I've even played audio CDs and MP3s with no problems. The only problem I DID run into was right after I put in a CD-R with MP3's on it (which it automatically found and started playing), once I started to play back DVDs, they wouldn't work well at all. I turned the unit off and then back on and the DVD's worked fine. But, I don't see myself using this as an MP3 player anyways.<br />VCDs seemed to work sporatically, but again, I don't really care too much about those. DVDs are the main thing as well as VHS tapes for my children.<br />Overall, an excellent buy. Better than the HIFI JVC VHS machine I bought along with it for the upstairs family room. That went back.<br />This is a great machine for the money. Get it.