Samsung DVD-HR753

DVD recorder / HDD recorder with TV tuner More Product Details

Reasonably impressive, but with enough flaws to deprive it of that oh-so-coveted fifth star (whathifi.co.uk)

A good all-rounder and worth checking out if this is the limit of your budget (whathifi.com)

alaTest Review Summary

We have collected and analysed 8 expert reviews and 27 user reviews from international sources. Experts rate this product 69/100 and users rate it 73/100. The average review date is 22-01-2008. We have compared these reviews to 26900 reviews from other Digital Video Recorders (DVR). The alaScore™ for this product is 95/100 = Excellent. Last update: 08-01-2009.

35 reviews

January, 2009

69 / 100

8 Experts

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Expert Reviews (8)

GB

Samsung DVD-HR753

By (whathifi.co.uk)

Reasonably impressive, but with enough flaws to deprive it of that oh-so-coveted fifth star

Rating

80

whathifi.co.uk
GB

Samsung DVD-HR753

By (whathifi.com)

A good all-rounder and worth checking out if this is the limit of your budget

A good all-rounder and worth checking out if this is the limit of your budget

No Freeview; some picture flaws, especially off-air

Rating

80

whathifi.com
AU

Samsung DVD-HR753

By Staff writers (pcauthority.com.au)

A good all-rounder and a fine budget recorder - if you can stomach the lack of a digital tuner

Big hard drive, good performance and great build for the price.

Cons

Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a free lunch and one corner has been cut �€" there's no built-in digital tuner. It's not alone in omitting this �€" LG's similarly-priced RH278H is also culpable �€" but we're so spoilt by Sony's players that we're

Rating

67

pcauthority.com.au

User Reviews (27)

GB

I thought it was good until I tried a Sony

By plesbit (amazon.co.uk)

I thought it was good until I tried a Sony

Bought this as my first HDD recorded. At first I thought it was great as it is a world apart from VHS. Unfortunately I then went and got a Sony 870 HDD recorder and it was a big a step up from this as this was from VHF. For a full breakdown of why I think...

GB

be careful

By Mr. M. Asker (amazon.co.uk)

be careful

a) this unit has no DTT receiver in it. \n \nb) the fan is very noisy \n \n

GB

Good apart from hdmi

By Mr. L. Sexton (amazon.co.uk)

Good apart from hdmi

This recorder was fine until I decided to use hdmi. Once I had bought the hdmi cale (not supplied) a few days after using/buying this product I noticed a huge problem. Syncing was well out between lips and sound. This only occurs when using the hdmi cable...

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