Samsung DVD-1080P8 1080p Upconverting DVD Player
from: Samsung
Price: $199.99
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Product Description:
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 CEC Child Protection Component Video Output Composite Video Output Coaxial Digital Audio Outputs Optical Audio Output Dimensions - 16.9 x 1.8 x 9.9 Weight - 4.6 lbs.
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 CEC Child Protection Component Video Output Composite Video Output Coaxial Digital Audio Outputs Optical Audio Output Dimensions - 16.9 x 1.8 x 9.9 Weight - 4.6 lbs.
Features:
- 1080p Upconversion
- HDMI CDC, Progressive Scan
- 14 bit video DAC
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Like others, dead within a year
Title says it all; I bought this with a Samsung TV and rarely watch movies (one a month) and this DVD player was dead within 9 months (purchased 10/16/08, dead 6/5/09).Samsung 32" LCD TV - excellent.Samsung 1080P8 DVD player - awful.
Rating: - Dead in 3 hours
First disc played, sound was cutting out (using sound from TV via HDMI). Tried another disc, same thing. Changed HDMI cable, no luck. Tried a third disc, lost video, even the screen saver from the DVD player is gone. Power cycled the unit, no change. Built in display is working, but no HDMI output. Occasionally shows garbled video output. Unit had latest firmware.
Rating: - Dead in less than a year.
Worked great for about 6-7 months aside from occasionally needing to turn it off and back on in order to get the HDMI to link up.For the last 3 months it has become progressively more "picky" about reading discs with slight scratches on them (these discs play fine on my other DVD player), until it stopped reading them altogether, even shiny new ones.The player has always been very slow and noisy when loading, and sometimes will show the word "Skip" at the top and jump chapters, but now it just ... Read More
Rating: 
- Impressive
I bought this player for my bedroom tv (also a Samsung), excellent sound and picture.Easy setup and easy to use.Great price!What's not to like?
Rating: 
- Not reliable
I ordered a Samsung refurbished upconverting DVD player, but the vendor, Retail Killer, sent me this Memorex one, and refused to allow me to return it, because it wasn't "defective."
Avoid Retail Killer.Order from them at your own risk.
Within 10 days, this DVD player began locking up for no reason.Disks in pristine condition would freeze halfway through a movie. The speakers would emit a loud, continuous, steady high pitched tone.None of the units controls would ... Read More
- Like others, dead within a yearTitle says it all; I bought this with a Samsung TV and rarely watch movies (one a month) and this DVD player was dead within 9 months (purchased 10/16/08, dead 6/5/09).Samsung 32" LCD TV - excellent.Samsung 1080P8 DVD player - awful.
- Dead in 3 hoursFirst disc played, sound was cutting out (using sound from TV via HDMI). Tried another disc, same thing. Changed HDMI cable, no luck. Tried a third disc, lost video, even the screen saver from the DVD player is gone. Power cycled the unit, no change. Built in display is working, but no HDMI output. Occasionally shows garbled video output. Unit had latest firmware.
- Dead in less than a year.Worked great for about 6-7 months aside from occasionally needing to turn it off and back on in order to get the HDMI to link up.For the last 3 months it has become progressively more "picky" about reading discs with slight scratches on them (these discs play fine on my other DVD player), until it stopped reading them altogether, even shiny new ones.The player has always been very slow and noisy when loading, and sometimes will show the word "Skip" at the top and jump chapters, but now it just ... Read More
- ImpressiveI bought this player for my bedroom tv (also a Samsung), excellent sound and picture.Easy setup and easy to use.Great price!What's not to like?
- Not reliableI ordered a Samsung refurbished upconverting DVD player, but the vendor, Retail Killer, sent me this Memorex one, and refused to allow me to return it, because it wasn't "defective."
Avoid Retail Killer.Order from them at your own risk.
Within 10 days, this DVD player began locking up for no reason.Disks in pristine condition would freeze halfway through a movie. The speakers would emit a loud, continuous, steady high pitched tone.None of the units controls would ... Read More
