Samsung DVD-R120 Progressive Scan DVD Recorder
No, and a thousand times no....
I bought this DVD recorder to do the typical thing: transfer old home videos to DVD format so that I could get rid of my huge collection of oversized VHS tapes, each of which have like 15 minutes of anything worthwhile on them.  I was all set to go with all the home videos sorted out and ready to go, just to be completely disappointed by this machine.   <br /> <br />(Before tearing too much into it, I should say that this was an 'open box' item that I bought (and returned) at Best Buy, and it is possible that mine was just defective - nevertheless my complaints stand). <br /> <br />There were several things that were initially frustrating to me, such as the fact that I was not able to use the first pack of DVDs that I bought because they were all DVD+Rs, not DVD-Rs.  Granted this is mostly my fault for not understanding the difference, but if you want greater diversity in what you can record onto, buy a different unit: this one only records on DVD-R/RW, and will not record on DVD+R/RW.  My main problems though were with the recordings (and I tried more than once before giving up).  Recording seemed to be going fine, but there were two problems after finalizing the DVD.  First, if I played the DVD back on the unit, the image had a slight flutter: not a huge flutter, but enough to drive you to the funny farm after watching for about 2.46 seconds.  The second major problem was when I tried playing the finalized disk on a regular DVD player.  If I just hit 'play,' the DVD would play fine, but if I tried to go to one of the 'chapters,' the image would just freeze on screen, and then the screen would go black, and I'd sit there and watch a whole bunch of nothing.   <br /> <br />Like I said, the unit may have just been defective, but I would say it's much smarter just to get a better unit.  When I took back the R120, I picked up a Panasonic DMR-ES15S, and it works beautifully - it only cost like 10-20 dollars more.