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 Not great Jan 07, 2009
First thing I noticed is that it is SLOW. My iPhone starts up faster than things thing turns on and starts playing a DVD. Also, it's pretty big. Mostly it is empty space inside -- they could have easily made it 50% smaller. Picture does seem nice, but not worth the disadvantages. I'm returning it.
Samsung DVD 1080p8 Jan 07, 2009
This product works great with my samsung lcd tv.For the price it a great product.There aint much of a difference in pictuce quality from my old dvd player.
Not up to the task Jan 06, 2009
bought this DVD player for two main reasons:
1. To play upconverted DVDs on my new sony LCD
2. To play some of my DIVX encoded movies
3. To play international DVDs
Pros:
- nice overall appearance and design of the player
- The 1080P upconversion was standard - I haven't seen the upconversion output of many other DVD players, but don't expect any miracles from any sub $100 players. The artifacts / pixelation / mosquito noise ... made any of the DVDs I tried barely any better. The upconverted DVDs looked worse on my new 32" Sony LCD than on my 8-year old 32" Sony XBR flat tube.
- Price was right: $50 or so on Amazon
Cons:
- I couldn't get it to play non-region 1 DVDs. Not even DVDs with no region-coding. It kept refusing to play those too. I tried all kinds of hacks but to no avail --> That's the kiss of death
- The overall operation of the player was sluggish. Response to remote control key presses was slow and annoying. DVD door would not respond quickly...
- The menu was also fugly to look at and operate.
- I tried several DVDs with DIVX encoded files and it couldn't play any of them ! --> not good.
Conclusion:
Save yourself some money and some time. Don't get this Samsung DVD-1080P8 (mine went back to Amazon. great return service). Get instead the Philips DVP5990 (it gave me upconversion, USB playback, multi-region).
Good budget DVD player. Jan 06, 2009
Setup was very easy, but then again no one should have issues hooking up a DVD player to a TV. The quality of the upscaling DVDs is pretty good on my Samsung A450 in 720p and 1080i using the HDMI cables I got from Monoprice. One of my only gripes is the lack of a visible clock and the generic remote control. It functions for the most part but is sometimes hard to use in dark rooms because of the black buttons.
I was debating on getting one of the Oppo series DVD players, but with the economy the way it is, this was the next best affordable option. Since my TV is a Samsung, it just made sense to get a DVD player of the same brand.
 Stopped reading dvds and was very slow Jan 04, 2009
I need to get a refund for this product. It stopped working in less than 45 days.
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