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I have had this DVD/VHS around 16 months. Bought it around the First week of July 2008. This has lasted more than the other DVD/VHS from JVC, lasted around 3 to 4 months, mostly DVD's would not look great and would skip. The V9800 has been the best DVD/VHS Player I've had. Bought it cheap and new I bought it close to when I bought my Samsung TV. I like the Remote control on the V9800 because I don't need to worry about TV's Remote because I can turn on and off the TV and control the volume and channels, I use that feature a lot and don't have to worry about the other control until I need to use it. I'm surprised to see all this bad ratings for a good DVD/VHS, I use mine a lot and almost everyday and it keeps working great. This is my second Samsung DVD/VHS, the other one is the Samsung DVD-V9700 Tunerless 1080i Upconverting DVD VHS Combo Player and that one is 20 months old. Still works and being used on the downstairs TV. The Samsung DVD-V9800 Tunerless 1080p Upconverting VHS Combo DVD Player is being used at my room.
I am looking to get another one of these because we still have most of our collection in VHS.

Place a 3 to 4 in small fan and blow through the vented holes from left to right. Chances are that the chips get overheated and fail. That's what I have done to this unit after reading about all the failures with this product. I have a Panasonic recorder that I applied 4 screws to lift the lid up 1/2 in for convection. Makes the unit work better with more cooling. It may help your under-cooled units!
To add a Tuner, use a short yellow Composite video interface to a TV Converter box like Insignia.

I wanted one of these for quite awhile to eliminate the clustered mess. Once again Samsung delivered another quality product. The vendor was great also. Nicely packaged and shock resistent because we all know how packages are abused by the carriers. Arrived at my door 2 days before the estimated date. I'd recommend anyone to buy from this vendor and buy this lovely product.

Very easy to install. I did have to go to Walmart for an additional set of cables, but then installed it in 5 minutes. Works great well worth the money.

We bought this after our Walmart dvd/vcr player stopped working (we had it for 6 years). Thinking this would be even a better one than our last, boy were we wrong!!! the Dvd player stop working after only 7 weeks! And it cost more to send it back to get it fixed and then pay shipping both ways. Even though it was still under warranty. Don't bother buying it, NOT WORTH IT!! Walmart Symphonic is only $60.00 and it lasted long, even took the beatings of our three toddlers.