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Summary: Samsung is cheap for a reason.
Review: Bought Samsung DVD player from retail store for my home theater becouse it was listed as a best buy by Consumer Report. They did make mention that the unit had problems with scratched discs. This was an understatment! If the disc had the slightest flaw the sound and picture would skip and jump. If this wasn't bad enough the player would stop in the middle of a brand new disc and stop playing. This turned out to be a major frustration after spending thousands of dollars on a home theater and have the evening ruined by a faulty player. Used the same DVD at a friends house and it played fine. I tried cleaning the player to no avail. Samsung technical service was little help. It took two e-mails to their web site before someone responded. The e-mail responce instructed me to contact customer service and get a UPS tag in order to return the player. I called and a UPS tag was supposed to be sent but never arrived. Called again and customer service did not have a record of my request or complaint. I gave up and took the player in it's original box to a pawn shop and got [money]. I considered myself lucky.
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Summary: Definitivamente un buen producto!
Review: He descubierto con mucha satisfacción que este es un muy buen producto, pensé que tendría algunos de los problemas que otras personas comentaban, sin embargo para ser justo, el DVD Player ha tenido un buen desempeño. Considero que los problemas de saltos se dan por fallas en los discos, pero no he tenido muchos problemas. Presenta una muy buena imagen y una nitidez y fidelidad normales.
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Summary: Pay a little more to get a better player
Review: I bought the Samsung 101 a couple months ago as my first DVD player. The price seemed reasonable and I liked the remote control. I also liked the Samsung 1-year warranty on parts and labor. Most players have a 90-day warranty on labor, and a 1-year warranty on parts, which means you are taking a risk if you do not buy an extended service contract from your retailer. Connection and set-up were fast and easy, and the owner's manual is excellent, logically organized and with clear instructions. Picture and sound were fine, but there were sporadic, though noticeable, "break ups" in the picture where it would disintegrate into large pixels. These are not the fault of the discs, since they don't always happen in the same place at the same time. More annoying than the occasional picture problems is the slowness with which the player loads the DVD and responds to the remote control. The remote response is so slow that I often was not sure if the player had even received the signal until 5 or 10 seconds after I had pushed the button. While you do get used to this after a while, it's a real drawback. The ergonomics of the remote itself are very good, with an intuitive layout, but this is offset by the slowness of the player's response. The player does a good enough job that it got me hooked on DVDs, but after a month, I relegated this player to the bedroom and bought a Toshiba (2800) that is far superior to the Samsung and only cost about [a bit] more. The Toshiba also has a great feature that the Samsung lacks: the first zoom level on the Toshiba gives you a slightly larger letterboxed image for widescreen DVDs, without cutting off much at the sides and with no discernable loss of image sharpness. This is a real convenience on my 27" TV, maintaining the widescreen ratio but giving a bigger image. The Samsung has a feature called "S-Fit" which supposedly does the same thing, but the manual says it does not work on all discs, and I never got it to work on any of mine. The Toshiba works for all the discs I have and it's a feature I would not sacrifice. Bottom line on the Samsung 101:
Pro: Good remote, good picture, good sound, 1-year warranty parts and labor, good instruction manual. Con: Sporadic picture problems, slow to load DVDs and slow to respond to remote, 2-level zoom does not increase image size for widescreen DVDs. If you want a good basic player and don't want to pay for an extended warranty, consider the Samsung.
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Summary: Pay a little more to get a better player
Review: I bought the Samsung 101 a couple months ago as my first DVD player. The price seemed reasonable and I liked the remote control. I also liked the Samsung 1-year warranty on parts and labor. Most players have a 90-day warranty on labor, and a 1-year warranty on parts, which means you are taking a risk if you do not buy an extended service contract from your retailer. Connection and set-up were fast and easy, and the owner's manual is excellent, logically organized and with clear instructions. Picture and sound were fine, but there were sporadic, though noticeable, "break ups" in the picture where it would disintegrate into large pixels. These are not the fault of the discs, since they don't always happen in the same place at the same time. More annoying than the occasional picture problems is the slowness with which the player loads the DVD and responds to the remote control. The remote response is so slow that I often was not sure if the player had even received the signal until 5 or 10 seconds after I had pushed the button. While you do get used to this after a while, it's a real drawback. The ergonomics of the remote itself are very good, with an intuitive layout, but this is offset by the slowness of the player's response. The player does a good enough job that it got me hooked on DVDs, but after a month, I relegated this player to the bedroom and bought a Toshiba (2800) that is far superior to the Samsung and only cost about [a bit] more. The Toshiba also has a great feature that the Samsung lacks: the first zoom level on the Toshiba gives you a slightly larger letterboxed image for widescreen DVDs, without cutting off much at the sides and with no discernable loss of image sharpness. This is a real convenience on my 27" TV, maintaining the widescreen ratio but giving a bigger image. The Samsung has a feature called "S-Fit" which supposedly does the same thing, but the manual says it does not work on all discs, and I never got it to work on any of mine. The Toshiba works for all the discs I have and it's a feature I would not sacrifice. Bottom line on the Samsung 101:
Pro: Good remote, good picture, good sound, 1-year warranty parts and labor, good instruction manual. Con: Sporadic picture problems, slow to load DVDs and slow to respond to remote, 2-level zoom does not increase image size for widescreen DVDs. If you want a good basic player and don't want to pay for an extended warranty, consider the Samsung.
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Summary: Samsung DVD-M101
Review: I bought the Samsung DVD-M101 DVD player to use in my bedroom and have been very pleased with it. For the money it is a very good buy. If you are looking for tons of features it really doesn't have that, but it has some cool stuff like 32X fast forward and Zoom feature that are nice. I was very pleased with the fact that when I brought it home and plugged it in it worked and played the new DVDs that I had. For a basic unit it works good.
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Summary: INCONSISTENT PERFORMANCE CAUSES AGGRAVATION
Review: I finaly bought this DVD player for myself after researching several models. Although it was not one of the most expensive, I was expecting it to still get the job done. Well, I sure was wrong. It is even enough to set up, but that was about the only plus. Sometimes it would play certain DVD's, sometimes it wouldn't. The ones that did play would take several minutes to get started, especially because the remote does not register what you press right away.
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Summary: Decent sound but skips too often
Review: I got this DVD player prior to xmas and soon discovered when I put in my first DVD that this DVD player has some serious latency problems. I don't know what's happening on the inside but every time I watch a Dvd or listen to a CD it stops. Then it makes a clicking noise like its trying to regain itself to continue then just freezes. I'm returning this thing tomorrow..
also a friend of mine said his parents bought the same unit and had the same problems
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Summary: Decent sound but skips too often
Review: I got this DVD player prior to xmas and soon discovered when I put in my first DVD that this DVD player has some serious latency problems. I don't know what's happening on the inside but every time I watch a Dvd or listen to a CD it stops. Then it makes a clicking noise like its trying to regain itself to continue then just freezes. I'm returning this thing tomorrow..
also a friend of mine said his parents bought the same unit and had the same problems
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Summary: Great DVD for the money
Review: I got this from Amazon.com for $99 shipped to my door. It's been a great unit. Very clear picture. Some extra features and optical out.
It has skipped on DVDs on occassion which is apparently due to bad chips or something and this has happened twice for no apparent reason.
I've hooked it up to my Aiwa 580 Home Theater system and the 2 systems work great. For the money you can't beat this system.
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Summary: Decent enough, but you get what you pay for
Review: I have to say that as far as DVD playback, digital is digital. When you compare this to a VCR/VTR this thing blows 'em away. I use the optical digital audio output so the sound is insane - excellent seperation for 5.1 channel movies, and *very* clear CD audio. But I use the standard RCA video output, and the thing still stomps all over my VTR for picture quality. That said, there are a few (minor) frustrating things: Response to the remote commands is somewhat lethargic. You have to wait a second or two before you know whether the unit "heard" your remote. Also, it is a bit slow when loading a disc (DVD's and CD's take the same amount of time, it seems). That leads me to my biggest complaint. When I got this unit I was really looking for a CD player, but saw this as an opportunity to move into the world of digital video for quite a small amount of cash. The CD support is really quite disappointing. It flat won't play some CD's, and is rather finicky on most. It has a lot of trouble with direct track access - it usually finds the right track, but starts about 3-10 seconds into the tune. Sometimes it just won't even come close (like going to track 3 when looking for track 6).
All in all, for DVD playback, including some pretty neat features, it's probably worth the money (note that it's not a lot of money). Just don't expect it to replace your single disc player for CD Audio.
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