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Summary: Samsung DVD711
Review: 7-11 brings to mind convenience and operating 24 hours. I don't know about the 24 hour part, but this DVD was easy to setup and has worked right from the start. We bought the Blockbuster 30 day DVD pass and put this player right to work. After three weeks and about 8 movies we find that sound is good, picture is good and the player has hardly skipped. When it did I cleaned the CD put it back in the player and it was fine for the rest of the movie. We rented the Matrix to test skips etc. and it played fine. It also handles MP3 music as well as regular music fine. What do you know it slices and dices and playes MP3 as well as DVD. I don't have complaints that the other reviewers have had about skipping etc. It was rated a best buy in Consumer Reports and so I thought we would give this one a try and it turned out to be a good player. Your experience with an identical player may be different so liability for this review is to be - read at your own risk. Happy with Samsung in Seattle
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Summary: Yes, it plays MP3's!!!!
Review: After checking out the APEX Dvd player that was the first machine to play MP3's, but had bad reviews, I was happy to hear that Samsung also had a similar product in the works. The 711 works as expected, playing CD-R's with MP3 files (over 10 hours of music on one CD) and the more common self produced CD copies. The video quality is very good and the machine has all the output options one could ever need. Strangly, the manual mentions nothing of these features and actually states that CD-R and CD-RW are not supported?! Buy this one!
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Summary: Good but . . .
Review: Firstly I must say that I don't know much about DVD players. I've got no idea what an S composite monster cable 5.1 digital audio amorphic system is. My roommate recently bought this DVD player and we hooked it up through normal RCA cables, the one gaming systems use. The picture was great. In fact it was awesome. It was unbelievably crisp and slow motion and freeze frame also were amazingly clear. The only complaint about the picture is that it's in widescreen and so the image seemed squashed as though the sides were pushed in making the people on the screen seem much more lanky and stretched. Maybe there was a way to change this, but we couldn't figure it out. Or maybe the DVD we were using just did this (MI:2). The sound was normal, nothing at all special. We have a normal TV with one cheesy speaker in it. Now onto the features. They were all pretty good. The slow motion could go forward and in reverse. The only thing is that there was no stepwise progression. I used to use the slow mo button on my VCR to slowly progress through a scene by clicking the button and when I'd find something that interested me I'd leave it paused. Here the slow mo is automatic and it progresses on it's own. If you want to pause it during the slow mo you can't because the pause and play are the same button so I'd end up pressing play and the thing would not pause. This was a pain especially since I wanted to locate something in the background of MI:2 and I couldn't. The only way to do it was by using the 'jog dial' on the DVD player itself. This was a cool feature because I could go through a scene stepwise by cycling the dial, unfortunately I could only move forward and not backwards. The zoom was good, I suppose. I used it just for the heck of it. It was really useless. And if you use the 4X zoom the picture is very fuzzy and blurry (and so it's pointless to zoom in that much). Another feature is that it plays audio CDs. This option was terrible. We couldn't even get some sort of display on the TV to see what track we were on. This info was listed on the LCD screen of the player. Also there were no effects to accompany the music. More expensive DVDs have a light show that replicate the sound level of the music by vibrating up and down, which is a cool effect. With this player you just had a blank screen. The last feature, the angle button which let's you view a scene from different angles (only if the DVD itself has it included) is a waste. I thought it would be a cool option but then again it wasn't because not many DVDs actually have this option. The coolest part about owning a DVD player is the DVD movie itself. The options on DVDs are really awesome. I loved seeing behind the scene footages, documentaries, and other nifty things like that. And so my advice is if you just want a simple DVD player and won't be creating your own home theater system, just buy a cheap one that can play all the DVDs (because I've heard that some players aren't able to pay them all). I'll probably just buy a Playstation 2 since that has a no frills DVD player and it has a cool light show for audio CDs. But then again I don't want to waste my time playing those video games, which I've become so sick of. Oh well . . .
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Summary: Good, almost Great.
Review: Got the DVD player yesterday, everything seemed to work great, except MP3s. However, it only skipped on a couple of them, mostly while I was navigating the menus while it was playing. I think that the skipping is probably related to the encoding of the MP3 itself though. The price is right!
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Summary: Good product
Review: Had it for a couple of years with no trouble at all,wide range of features,great picture
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Summary: Lou, Lou, Skip to my Lou
Review: I am returning this player to the store where I purchased it. Every movie I've tried to play has either skipped or frozen, with the exception of the Little Mermaid 2. Very frustrating.
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Summary: Excellent DVD player....
Review: I bought the Samsung DVD711 last week, along with a Phillips CD Recorder, and both have been fantastic. I do not use MP3 technology at this point in time, but the DVD functions of the 711 work great. Have watched Matrix and Gladiator, and have experienced no skips or freezes whatsoever. It also plays the CD-R's that I've made from the Phillips recorder flawlessly. If I ever put an MP3 disc, or a CD-RW in it, I'll repost my review of those functions. But as it stands, the DVD711 works great for what I need it to.... playing DVD's.
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Summary: Great DVD Player (MP3 Player Also!!!!)
Review: I bought this DVD player because I saw a review stating that it also Plays MP3s. And YES it does. It even has a small MP3 sigh light up on the front panel when MP3s are being played. Great Picture and excellent sound, and great Remote functionalities.
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Summary: Not pleased at all
Review: I bought this model last year for quite a bit more than amazon is asking for. The first DVD I bought played perfect. The next four did not. I returned the DVDs, got them back home still didn't play. I had the same problem with the X-Men DVD. I still haven't been able to watch all of The Perfect Storm. I have approximately 20 DVDs and it plays about five of them with zero problems. If I could have ranked it no stars I would have. I plan on buying another one. Plainly put it does not work. DO NOT BUY THIS DVD PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Excellent DVD playback, but MP3's skip
Review: I bought this model primarily for its MP3 playback capability. Every MP3 I have played on this unit has skipped. Samsung's tech support told me that they are aware of the problem that MP3's skip on this model and that there is no fix at this time. I was told that if I didn't like the way it played MP3's, to return it. DVD playback however, is excellent with no glitches.
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