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Summary: Great sound & picture with RCA cables!!
Review: I love this DVD player-no complaints! My TV doesn't have a "S" video cable input, so I used the RCA video cable that was provided with the DVD player-great picture! After plugging in the video RCA cable, I ran the 2 audio RCA cables from the DVD player to my amplifier/reciever-the stereo sound this DVD player provides sounds great on an analog stereo! It's better than being in a movie theatre, though, because you can press the "I. REPLAY" button and have the movie replay the last 10 seconds just viewed (great for a football game with a bad call-you can replay the play and zoom in or change viewing angles to decide for yourself if the referee made a good call).This DVD player also has the subtitle option for those DVDs that have subtitles on them. The player is also capable of playing any language on the DVD. I like to play movies in other languages with English subtitles active-then I can learn other languages while being entertained! This DVD player does have digital options if your TV is digital or you have a digital receiver. It is has an "S Video" output as well as digital out (optical and coaxial for DTS sound), however you need to have these cables because Samsung only provides RCA cables. This is a great DVD player that's pretty inexpensive. I would (and have) definitely recommend it to a friend!
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Summary: What a surprise!
Review: I neither wanted nor needed another DVD player. I already have three. But this player was part of a rebate offer for the Samsung phone that I bought. What a surprise I got when I received this thing! I was expecting a cheap DVD player. This is not. This is a very decent quality player for, if you actually paid for it, a good price. The remote control is intuitively designed and the picture and sound quality is better than average. The only major gripe I have about it is that the video quality is just a bit jagged, like a Photoshop picture that's been sharpened too much. I'm still a diehard fan of Pioneer video products, but I'm going to keep my eye on Samsung. It's the company with the momentum. I originally planned to sell this player as soon as I got it. But it appears that I will be keeping it after all.
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Summary: What a surprise!
Review: I neither wanted nor needed another DVD player. I already have three. But this player was part of a rebate offer for the Samsung phone that I bought. What a surprise I got when I received this thing! I was expecting a cheap DVD player. This is not. This is a very decent quality player for, if you actually paid for it, a good price. The remote control is intuitively designed and the picture and sound quality is better than average. The only major gripe I have about it is that the video quality is just a bit jagged, like a Photoshop picture that's been sharpened too much. I'm still a diehard fan of Pioneer video products, but I'm going to keep my eye on Samsung. It's the company with the momentum. I originally planned to sell this player as soon as I got it. But it appears that I will be keeping it after all.
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Summary: A very good dvd player
Review: I received this player as a Christmas gift, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that it has all the features I was looking for. It functionas exactly as advertised. I was disappointed in the remote, as the player responded very sluggishly to it. Having read that in several reviews, I decided to put in some fresh batteries, and voila! the remote is as good as any other I have. I won't downgrade Samsung for this, as I remember when no batteries came with any electronics at all.
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Summary: Good, inexpensive DVD player
Review: I've had this player for about 8 months now and I'm happy with it. Reading some of the other reviews, I've heard comments about skipping DVD's, but I've never noticed a problem. I did end up having to buy speakers in order to get the audio to sound good, but that's the fault of my TV (only one audio input, while the DVD player has a left and right output). I've personally never had a problem with it, and I'd certainly recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Good, inexpensive DVD player
Review: I've had this player for about 8 months now and I'm happy with it. Reading some of the other reviews, I've heard comments about skipping DVD's, but I've never noticed a problem. I did end up having to buy speakers in order to get the audio to sound good, but that's the fault of my TV (only one audio input, while the DVD player has a left and right output). I've personally never had a problem with it, and I'd certainly recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Vertical stretching in widescreen mode
Review: In fullscreen mode, this is a great player. MP3 playback is also pretty good, although it would be nice if it could read mp3 tags, instead of just the first eight characters of the filename. The real problem I've found is that the player I bought shows noticable video stretching when playing a widescreen DVD. Everything just looks a little too thin - stretched vertically. At first I thought it might just be a particular DVD, but I've tried four different titles and gotten the same effect. I'm going to return this one and spend the extra money for either a Sony or Toshiba, where I know I won't have to worry about video quality...
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Summary: good for the money
Review: No real problems with it. SVCD you can only speed up 8X and you can't jump to a spot. Thats a bummer for me. Otherwise for the price range remote and features seems great. Good picture and sound quality for DVDs.
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Summary: Very Good for the Price
Review: Sure there are better players but I have seen many much more expensive Sony DVD players that get blown away by this model. It features amazing quality (even though it is not progressive) and an amazing range of disk compatability. Mine will read my DVD+R/RW, CD-R/RW, VCD, and SVCD disks without any problems. Other than that - a previous reviewer claimed that you need a p-scan model for a digital TV. He was wrong. This works fine on my HDTV and as the TV has its own p-scan engine (as most HDTVs do) there is no reason to get a p-scan DVD - at least in terms of the image quality I am getting.
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Summary: Fantastic picture, but awkward user-interface and remote
Review: The Samsung S221 produces a superior picture for a budget-priced DVD player: gradiants are smooth with no banding or "stairstepping." However, the remote control and user-interface are frustrating, even for an experienced DVD user. For instance, to change the audio track (e.g., from English to English w/ commentary), you must first press the "audio" button and then press up and down or left and right to choose a different track. The same is true for subtitles. And strangely, with one DVD, the unit I had mistook my television for a widescreen TV, filling my tv screen with a distorted, elongated image that occurs when you compress a widescreen image onto a standard tv set, as opposed to displaying the movie in letterbox format. To correct this, I had to repeatedly enter the player's on-screen menu to specify my television's proportions (frustratingly, it didn't always remember this specification). Furthermore, the "screen-fit" function, which some people prefer for filling their standard tv screens with the picture, as opposed to watching the movie in "letterbox" format, failed to function with several dvds. While the picture on the S221 was very, very good, because the controls were so poorly designed and unreliable, I opted to return this player and keep a Hitachi (the DVP325U) that produced an inferior picture, but which had much simpler, reliable controls.
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