The Samsung Group is the world's second largest conglomerate in the world. Samsung Electronics is the world's largest electronics company and the global market leader in more than 60 products, including DVD players and recorders.

Portable DVD players capable of playing and recording are manufactured by Samsung Electronics. Samsung DVD players deliver high-quality DivX videos. Samsung DVDs are stylish and innovative and incorporate sophisticated designs to envelope smart technologies. Compact and innovative, some models have FM Tuner functions besides recording capabilities. Some models also have the power resume function ensuring that the viewing process is hassle free.

Samsung DVD players have the ability to record coupled with the capacity to upscale DVDs to its HDMI output. For DVD recording, the Samsung players offer four recording modes that all have trade-offs in recording quality vs. capacity. Only one hour of highest-quality XP-mode video fits onto one single-layer DVD; SP is two hours, LP is four, and EP is either six or eight. One handy feature is the flexible recording option that allows you to completely fill a DVD with your program, maximizing the video quality.

Because the recorder needs to "know" how long the program will be on to optimize the quality setting, flexible recording is available only for timer recordings. And that is a standard shortcoming of DVD recorders without a hard drive. Another good feature is the commercial skip, which conveniently adjusts to blast through ads. Around the front Samsung DVD players have the DV input for easy hookup to a camcorder.