Samsung DVD-1080P8 1080p Upconverting DVD Player
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Take your movie watching to another level with the SAMSUNG 1080P8 DVD player. Experience your favorite movies in beautiful high definition. This DVD player will upconvert your standard DVDs to 1080p high definition, using an optional HDMI cable, so you can enjoy an enhanced cinematic experience with superior sharpness, color and details on your 1080p-capable HDTV screen. Progressive Scan DTS Output Dolby Digital Surround Sound Connectivity - HDMI… Product details and pricing info |
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105 Customer Reviews Posted
- good, except for CDs
- Its a good products and plays DVDs nicely, but when a CD is inserted the mechanical noise while the CD is playing is loud and the play often hesitates for several seconds at random times. We haven't tried Blu-Ray yet...
- 2008-06-30, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Remote does not work (others have had this problem)
- I bought mine from Sam's Club and had the same problem with the remote that gork57 reported on 6/6/08. Despite using brand new batteries, the unit was often slowly responsive or frankly unresponsive to the remote. This rendered the unit unusable, which is a shame because it generated a nice upconverted picture on my 40" HD LCD TV via HDMI. The sound output was pretty good too. But really, the machine is useless without a decent remote.
- 2008-06-30, 1 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- disappointed
- Bought this DVD player to go with a new Sammy 58" Plasma and take advantage of the "Anynet" feature. Almost from the beginning the player made more noise than my garage door opener.
Without exception at some point in every DVD I put in it the player would stop. I would have to wait for it to begin playing again. There were some DVD's that it would not even load. Not the DVD's as I would put them in another player and they would load and play without problems. I have returned it to Amazon and now await my refund.
In addition to the mechanical failures I found the player to be extremely slow not only with loading but in responding to commands sent from the remote. In some instances the delay was so lengthly that I thought the command had not been recieved by the player but finally it would react.
The Sammy "Anynet" is not as effective as I thought it would be and required that you keep the DVD remote handy for certain commands.
Have since I sent it back, I purchased another DVD upconverting player. It is much faster to load and react to remote commands. It has not failed to load any DVD's nor has it stopped during play back even once. The remote on the new player gives me as many options as the "Anynet" feature on the Sammy so I lost nothing there.
I would not recommend this player however must note that it may just have been a lemon.
Disappointed for sure, - 2008-06-30, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- It's what they DON'T say ...
- I bought this device as my thrid upconverting DVD player, to fit into a closet-based bedroom system featuring a 37-inch 720p LCD screen. I self-installed the screen and mounted the set-top box in an adjacent closet, using a Uneversal Remote programmable unit and a Niles Audio infrared (IR) repeater system. I thought the Samsung DVD-1080p8 would be the perfect addition to the system, upconverting appropriately at the right price point.
Everything went fine until I tried to find an IR code to use in programming my remote. Not only was there none mentioned in the manual, there was no citation of an IR receiver on the front-of-the-unit graphic in the manual. Hmm. Curious. So I completely covered the front, top, sides, and bottom of the unit with masking tape to see if it operated remotely with the Samsung-provided device. It did.
So, on to Samsung's website. Again, no direct citation of anything useful. But buried in the FAQs for their DVD product line was some doubletalk about how they don't provide remote codes 'cuz that's the univerals reomote manufacturer's responsibility. Except every other maunufacturer provides them when they're asked.
Suddenly, the light went on! This unit doesn't use IR at all. It is, instead, a (rare) radio frequency (RF) controlled unit. And Samsung doesn't have the guts or honesty to put "includes RF remote" on the box. If they did, they could also correctly note that RF remotes penetrate walls and floors and have a range of about 100 feet, as opposed to the 15 to 30 feet ususally associated with IR remotes. That would be useful, and honest, and probably would sell more units for those reasons. But, then, in the interest of full disclosure, they would have to point out that the product only works remotely with other Samsung units employing RF remotes
So, back it went. That's it for me and Samsung. I'm sticking with the good stuff from now on.
An honest disclossure of a little pertinent information would have saved the day.
BTW, the picture and sound were OK. My Sony units are better, though, and they work with all my programmable remotes, thank you very much. - 2008-06-27, 5 of 12 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Samsung DVD Player 1080P Upconverting
- The DVD player is all that it was cracked up to be. I am very impressed with it and the price was reasonable. Highly recommended. No problems with the seller or delivery.
- 2008-06-25, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
