Review on 📀 Enhance Your Viewing Experience with the Samsung DVD-1080P9 1080p Upconverting DVD Player by John Collins

I'll make it as simple as possible since I don't have this system anymore (I only bought it because it was cheap and I needed something to keep me going until I got my Blu-ray player with me surround sound). After editing the settings in the system and disabling dynamic range compression, changing the output to progressive and upscaling to what your TV can handle (e.g. 1080p) you get amazing picture quality. It loads the DVD very quickly and remembers where you left off on the DVD (unless you press the stop button TWICE), even if you eject the DVD, play another DVD, and then return the original DVD. I bought it mainly because of the USB port. It can play AVI/DivX movies as well as some other formats and read subtitle files, so you can have subtitles when watching AVI movies from USB memory. Now let's move on to the problems with subtitles. If, while watching a DVD for some unknown reason, you press the stop button on the DVD and turn off the player and watch the movie again later, the movie will continue with the first subtitle track even if the subtitles are on and were not on when you watched a movie to have. Now it's not that annoying anymore. BUT: you can't turn off subtitles unless you go back to the movie menu and select a title with subtitles! The movie will then start over even if you press "Resume" - which means you have to fast forward where you left off! The!? Luckily I only watched a few DVDs on it so it wasn't a problem. I've watched countless movies off my USB stick and only one of them had a subtitle track. Which brings me to subtitle problem #2: When watching an Xvid/DivX movie from a USB stick with subtitle track, the subtitles play too fast. For example, they will leave before the sentence is spoken. They work great on a computer. They work great on my new Blu-ray system (and the subtitles look MUCH better). They look a bit strange on it and they are too fast. I read quickly, but my friends complained a little. Not too annoying as I don't watch too many foreign movies from my USB drive. So yes I gave this one 4 stars because it was a great price and I bought it to last until I buy something better. DVD and USB movies look great. You only have to run into issues with subtitles once in a while, but I don't find it annoying enough not to recommend a product. It is useful for users to know this now before making a purchase. I just remembered another annoying problem with it. If you pause the movie, it will stop after a few minutes. It is in order. But if this happens with a movie from a USB stick, you won't be able to continue playing where you left off! Even if you manually press stop on the USB, it will not resume. So if I was watching a movie from a USB drive and needed to do something, I would pause/pause the movie every minute so it wouldn't stop on me. Very annoying, but I managed. The device is very sleek and fits my setup perfectly (which didn't really matter since it was a temporary device for me, but it's worth mentioning). It has an HDMI output as well as a coaxial audio connection (no optical audio) for surround sound. It has composite ports, but who cares? This is an up-converted DVD player, so get yourself an HDTV, connect an HDMI cable and enjoy great picture quality. The device also has a feature that allows you to rip a CD to USB (which then contains MP3 files) but I haven't tried that feature (I would still use my computer so I can set everything up to my liking) . If you are going to buy a DVD player that you intend to use for a long time and are not planning anything better in the near future, buy another product as there is no point in buying a product with subtitle errors like this one. does. If you're looking for something cheap with great video output, it'll be a while before you buy a more expensive alternative. It's not such a bad deal. Just make sure whatever you get can play AVI files through the USB port, otherwise you're really limiting what movies you can watch on the system. The Philips DVP5990 seems like a great alternative and was actually the system I was looking for until I decided to go with Samsung. They were both the same price when I bought them, but Philips seems to be cheaper now. Some say it's perfect, some say it's flawed, and so on. Use your own judgement. Always read the reviews before you buy and decide what mistakes you live with and what price you are willing to pay. Remember you get what you pay for.