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
- I'd Recommend Avoiding This One
- Picked up this DVD player when I purchased a Samsung LCD, which I connected via HDMI cable. There were problems instantly, in the form of a "Searching for Signal" message. I'd lose signal on the menu screen, the title screen, and roughly once every couple of minutes while watching a movie.
I switched the HDMI cable between three different ports on the television, and had the same problem. I switched to a different HDMI cable, and still had the same problem. Even watching DVDs at 480p produced the same problem. I exchanged this DVD player for another Samsung (same model), and was still cursed.
Finally switched to a Sony 1080 DVD player (same cost), and have had no problems at all. Strange that Samsung would apparently produce a DVD player that was not completely compatible with their own HDTV, but that was definitely my experience, with two of them. - 2008-07-01, 10 of 10 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Works, but slow in ways that affect usability
- Overall: don't stress if you bought it, but if you haven't bought it yet, if you can find something different in the same price range, you might want to try it.
Positives:
1. works.
2. I love the feature when you turn the power off, it remembers where you were in the movie. When you power it back on, it takes you right back there!
Negatives:
1. Reacts very sluggishly to the remote control. Not sure what the problem is. Not only do I need to be pointing exactly at the device to get it to register, I really have to jam the buttons down and hold them to get the action to take. As a result I will frequently hit the pause button and have nothing happen. Then I have to back up and try again.
2. Takes a long time to load the first time. Thankfully if I power down the dVD while watching it, it remembers exactly where I was, and takes me straight to that, so it's less painful when you are continuing. - 2008-07-01, 7 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- 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, 7 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
