Samsung DVD-V3500 DVD Player / VCR Combo

Pros: Universal remote; stereo sound; saves space; RCA jacks in front for camcorder porting; low price
Cons: Abysmal VHS recording quality; Eject responds slowly; rewinding/fast-forwarding is clunky

Up until the late 1990's, it would be fair to say that Japanese electronics manufacturers had a firm grip on the American consumer electronics markets. With product-diverse companies like the ubiquitous Sony, JVC, and National/Panasonic leading the way, ...

Pros: nice finish; universal remote; plenty of jacks
Cons: remote hard to get used to

When our 15-year old VCR died, we decided to take the plunge into the digital age with a DVD/VCR com ...

Pros: Reasonable price; Apparently nice features; Works well as a VCR
Cons: Not the nicest remote; DVD functionality ends in less than a year, COMMON PROBLEM!

My wife and I purchased the Samsung DVD-V3500 combination DVD/VCR in February to replace our defunct 10-year old VCR. Thrilled at the idea that we could get a combination unit such as this for the same price we expected to pay for just a new VCR (can ...

Pros: Clock works... and the VCR keeps working after DVD player invariably breaks after 6 months.
Cons: You didn't read my review, did you?

After having had the experience of owning an Electrohome VCR that worked flawlessly for nearly 13 years, we decided to purchase a DVD/VCR combo. Much to our dismay, we settled on the Samsung DVD-V3500. I'll be painfully blunt: I am a rather ...

Pros: Attractive DVD/VCR combo unit takes up less space.
Cons: Product is poorly manufactured and fails to provide quality operation. Customer Service is extremely poor.

If you want quality, don't by inexpensive Samsung products. I purchased a DVD-V3500 in February 2004. Within 3 months the DVD player began to freeze as if the pause button was pushed. To continue with the movie, the DVD had to be ejected and ...

Pros: Hard to find. The VHS through remote works well.
Cons: DVD is garbage. Samsung is just damaging its image with products like this.

I've had at least 5 problems with this unit, but I can't remember some of them right now. Unfortunately with light use I didn't catch most of them until approaching the 1-year warranty and by the time I did anything about it, I was 1 week out of ...

Pros: Price, EZ-VIEW widescreen removal for 4:3 ratio tvs, show display on channel change
Cons: Confusing controls, non-responsive remote, inability to scan DVDs from remote, poor recording quality.

My wife and I picked this unit up when one of our old VCRs died. We thought it would be nice to have both the VCR and the DVD in one unit. The EZ-VIEW widescreen removal feature was also a big selling point, as we only have a 4:3 ratio style TV. We t ...

Pros: Very easy to use, many nice features, good-looking unit, excellent remote layout
Cons: Tiny, tiny remote buttons

I liked this thing from the start. Soon after I plugged it in, it quickly and quietly set its clock, without so much as a push of a button on my part. Nice. I liked it even more when I saw the console display that shows tape and DVD counter and recording ...

Pros: Lots of features
Cons: Hangs on lightly scratched DVDs

This player has excellent sound though the 6 head VCR and it has a built in RF modulator for TVs wit ...

Pros: Good picture, loads of features, nice remote features.
Cons: Typical of most low cost manufacturing today - it won't last forever.

The Samsung DVD-V3500 is an adequate DVD/VCR combo for the money. The picture is very good and the controls are easy to use once you get used to them. Hook-up is easy with the standard coaxial antenna connectors or the A/V input and outputs. For ...

Pros: It's nice to have DVD and VCR in one unit
Cons: Remote is a little flaky It FREEZES UP from time to time! >:-|

I am thoroughly used to high-tech products just plain working in this day and age, so I didn't even bother to read any reviews on this product before buying it. I liked the fact that it played both VHS tapes and DVDS, and was under $100. It worked ...

Pros: Looks nice
Cons: High failure rate, feels flimsy

When our 10 year old VCR died, we decided to replace it with a DVD/VCR combo and move our existing DVD playing into another room. We had success with a previous purchase of a Panasonic DVD/VCR combo for our bedroom, but unfortunately it was no longer ava ...

Pros: easy to use, inexpensive
Cons: all around dissapointment

i got my v3500 about a year or so ago and now am starting to have problems with dvd's freezing. i can sit a watch a 2 hour movie fine but if i try to watch somthing after that the dvd player hangs and becomes un-responsive, the only way to get to play ...

Pros: Good price
Cons: DVD's freeze, remote sluggish, junk after 6 months

I bought my DVD-V3500 DVD/VCR combo about 6 months ago and did not use it very often. About two months ago, movies would freeze intermittently. As time progressed, the freezing became more frequent and lasted longer. Also, some DVD's would not even ...

Pros: It looks great... easy to hook up.
Cons: Everything after the initial 90 days of good use.

If you don't believe me, go to Amazon.com reviews too and you'll see there are just plenty of people that have had similar problems as I have... and they have had major issues with Samsung trying to get the problem corrected too! I haven't even gone ...