Samsung SM304 DVD/CDRW Combo Review - PAGE 1

One thing I noticed about this drive is that the back end is recessed, giving easier access to the drive’s connectors. If you’ve ever had a tiny, cramped box, you know often it’s difficult to plug in your cables by feel, but the recessed end on this drive gives enough tactile information to make this irritating task easy.

Box Contents

The SM304's Box Contents

Samsung included PowerDVD with this unit as its DVD playing software. One cool thing about PowerDVD is that in addition to DVDs, it can also play other movie types like VCDs and MPGs.

The User manual included with this unit is a bit thin, but still sufficient and easy to understand. I am, however somewhat worried about why the manual tells us to copy a DLL by hand off the CD because it “handles possible errors detected after checking the DIRECT CD properties in the Windows Explorer” Uhh.. so they had enough time to make a fix, and print it in their manual, but they didn’t have enough time to include it in their installation program? This doesn’t make me feel too secure in the people who’ve coded the software I’m about to install and use.