Rating: 
Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: I recieved this DVD player for Christmas. I was very excited and got it hooked up with no trouble. The instructions for the setup and use of the features were simple. But, as I started to watch the X-Men I figured out I had no sound. I returned the product and returned home with one that had sound and picture. I got home and hooked up the player a second time. I started playing the movie again and about halfway through it it started to skip constantly. I thought it had to be the movie. I played another movie, the Matrix, and it played perfectly. I also played the Skulls which worked well. Then I tried to play The Cell today and about halfway through it it started to skip so badly that I had to stop the movie. This player obviously has something wrong with it. I am returning this player a second time tomorrow and am going to opt for a different and more reccomended player. Maybe I'll have a little more luck.
Rating:
Summary: Nice features....that's if it decides to read your disc!
Review: I thought I received a great bargain when I bought this Samsung DVD player. When the machine finally decides to read the disc, there are many features such as slow motion, fast forward, 3D sound, etc. Beyond that, it had trouble reading a lot of the discs I have in my collection, and some of these discs aren't scratched, but brand new ones. Stay far away from this one!
Rating: 
Summary: MP3 Hangups
Review: I too purchased this product, primarily because of the other features but saw the MP3 decoder as the bullet-list item that won the decision between Samsung, Sony and Toshiba DVD players. However, I still can't get it to play a single MP3 that I've burned to CD-R. Forget going to [Samsung's website] for help! They don't even list this as an available model. Basically, DVD works great! But the MP3 playback is in serious need of help.
Rating: 
Summary: Freezes up too much
Review: I'm changing my review for this DVD machine. I originally gave it 4 stars and remarked that it did a decent job. I'm now giving it 3 stars. The main reason: about 80% of my DVD tapes freeze up for about half a second during play. Some tapes don't freeze up at all, a few freeze 2-3 times, yet on others it will happen 500-600 times. Many of these DVD tapes are brand new and don't have a single blemish on them. This is extremely annoying. I went to Samsung's website for tech support, and I couldn't even find this model listed. At first I thought the discs were defective, but since so many of them freeze up, I figure it has to be the player itself. On the positive side, this Samsung model has a nice, comfortable remote control.
Rating: 
Summary: Samsung DVD Model 711 - AVOID !! AVOID!! AVOID!!
Review: My wife and I received this as a wedding gift and really apreciated the gesture at the time. We have now owned this miserable excuse for a DVD player for over a year and have successfully watched maybe 3 DVD's out of dozens without it skipping and refusing to play the disk. I've heard stories about the US versions of this player skipping and the European one doesn't but don't take a chance. It skips on new and used DVD's. I can't think of many things more frustrating than finally finding that movie you have been wanting to see for weeks in the video store and renting it only to have it stop playing 3/4 of the way through. ... Do yourself a favor - don't buy one of these.
Rating:
Summary: My First DVD Player Ever
Review: So this is supposed to be the future. Save me then. What nightmare this DVD player is. The Best Buy was telling me how great this machine is. I guess I should of done a little research before I got it. I wish there was a way to sue Samsung. I say about 90% of all movies freezes during the play time. For a long time I thought it was the DVD's that I was renting from Blockbuster. Once I did some research on this thing I found out that it has serious problems with freezing during the switch of chapters. By that time I was stuck with the player because I was past my return for the DVD player. So I would seriously like to thank Samsung for making a DVD player that doesn't play movies. This has been a great experience!
Rating:
Summary: samsung dvd711 not what it's advertised to be
Review: the one i bought for my boyfriend as a christmas gift does not read burnable or rewriteable cd's, as the technical data says it was supposed to do, and it skipped pretty badly on several different dvd's, so I'm going to send it back...buyers beware!
Rating:
Summary: Acceptable DVD Player
Review: This DVD Player is not that great but acceptable. I have not had any problem except it skips sometimes. OK for general use, I guess.
Rating:
Summary: Acceptable DVD Player
Review: This DVD Player is not that great but acceptable. I have not had any problem except it skips sometimes. OK for general use, I guess.
Rating:
Summary: Blood pressure raiser!
Review: This item was a gift from my children. We were excited about our future home movie watching. Big disappointment! As this was our first home DVD we first thought all the jumps, skips and freezes were because of dust or other on rented DVDs. Not so. Whenever we play a DVD it always takes at least 1/3 longer than the mond where we were frozen out. Not to mention all the heart stoppages when it stops for a second or two in the action.
| 
