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(More customer reviews)The bad:
First:
NO AUDIO WITH HDMI. The whole point of the HDMI cable is to have 1 (one) cable to run from one machine to another, right? But with this player, in order to get audio while using HDMI, you need to either plug in the analog RCA (red and white) cables, or a digital audio cable. Unfortunately for me, I am already using the audio-in on my HDMI for a PC (DVI to HDMI, and separate audio out.) I have seen many other people contact Samsung for support, and all got this response.
Second:
The player never remembers where I left off with a movie. With my previous Sony 5 disc DVD player, wherever a disc left off when either pressing "stop" or powering down, is picked up in the same spot when playing again. But for some reason this is intermittent on this player and incredibly frustrating.
Third:
A little complicated, but hear me out: After pressing "play" after rewinding, it takes 3 seconds to get back up to speed and play. But instead of picking up on the timecode where you press play, it uses those few seconds and continues to step forward through the timecode without sending any kind of a signal to watch, making you have to rewind again. This happens often.
Other minor annoyances:
The device is loud;
very slow to load DVD's or Blu-Ray discs;
the fast forward and rewind are very, very slow;
the timecode disappears from the screen while fast forwarding or rewinding, so if you need to FF to a certain time, you are left guessing;
there is no way to navigate any menus without the remote (common on many players, but still frustrating);
pressing the "play" button doesn't close the tray and play a disc, you have to press close first;
pressing the power button while the disc tray is open is tough unless you have the fingers of a 5 year old;
the button response is terrible on the remote (though I have found this to be on ALL Samsung remotes I have used.)
Yes, these can seem pretty nit-picky. But these are the things you run across each and every day with this model, and I have never had this experience with previous DVD players. And all of these issues are problems I have had with both DVD and Blu-Ray discs on this machine.
Sure, Blu-Ray movies look amazing, but I don't think that warrants getting a great review because it did the 1 thing right it was supposed to. Whereas a great, or even nice player, will have all the extra things which make interacting and using the device comfortable and not aggravating.
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