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Save It On The Player

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If you want to save a song from a movie while you are watching it on your player, or save songs from an MP3 CD that you may have borrowed from a friend, the Samsung DVD-HDD recorder is for you. It’s the perfect successor to the VCR, and so much more.

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This player lets you record from your DVD on to its huge 40 GB hard disk. You can also store MP3s on to it. If this isn’t enough, you can store your snaps on a CD, view them with the built in JPEG viewer and save them to the recorder. So, in one package, you can store and play your music, movies and pictures. The H40S supports a variety of formats including DVD, SVCD, audio CD, VCD, MP3 and

CDR/RW playback.

You can record directly from the DVD that you’re playing as well as the TV input that’s given to the recorder. The recording can be done spontaneously by the click of a button or scheduled for later. The recorder can schedule up to 15 programmed recordings per month.

There are a few negatives though. While the H40S records well from a DVD, it’s not capable of doing so from a VCD. And if the DVD is copy protected, you won’t be able to copy from that either.

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It plays DVD, VCD and SVCD in video. It has all the regular features that can be controlled easily through the remote control. The remote is extremely handy, with a dial at the bottom for rewinding and forwarding in movies. Movies can be played at 2X, 4X, 8X, 16X, 32X, 64X or 128X of the normal speed. It also has 1.5x, 2x and 4x zoom options.

And when it comes to interface-it has one of the most advanced interfaces in DVD recorders or players. It lets you format the hard disk, make folders, play songs, browse pictures on the HDD as well as CDs and a whole lot more. All done is a very easy-to-understand menu-type fashion.

You can also connect your video camera, TV or VCR to it using the AV/component/S-video input. However, a FireWire port, which helps in connecting to a DV Cam, is missing.

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But, all good things come at a price, as does this one. At Rs 44,990 you’d burn a hole in your pocket.

Price: Rs 44,490 Contact: Samsung, Delhi

Geetaj Channana

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