Samsung DVD-P341 DVD Player with Multicard Memory Slot
What A Pain....
I've had this player for about a week. Since day one I had issues with it. It defaults to composite video out. It took about an hour of playing with it to get it changed to component video output. The directions don't work as stated. You have to change it to component on the DVD player while it is plugged in with composite video. Then power down your TV and DVD player, unplug your composite video, hook up the component cables and then power on. If this was in the manual, it'd have saved me an hour. I guess I assumed you could start with components or change without power down after changing it in the menu. You know what they say about assuming.    What else? The power button on the front of the display does not work. The fast-forward/rewind/play/stop button doesn't work.  The open/close button has worked on only one day. I've searched online and the manual for resolutions but have found none.    I had problems getting it to open at all on one occasion, the tray would open and close in about one second, leaving me to use my lighting fast hands to retrieve my captive DVD.    This DVD player only plays the most pristine and brand new out of box DVD's. I got through my brand new Matrix DVD and the Godfather, which is older but has been kept in good shape. DVD\\"s I never had an issue with in my XBOX (Finding Nemo, T2, several others) all of a sudden won't play on this unit. The unit powers up and then powers down automatically as soon as it hits a snag.     The unit has also powered down for no reason without a disc in it, after being on for only about 20 seconds. It did this to me for about ten minutes straight before it stayed on.    When it did work, the picture was very nice, standard 480progressive. The 3:2 pulldown seems to do its job. The digitial coax wasn't as sharp as I've heard on other players, but it gets the job done as well.    Taken as a whole, the frustration I've gone through has not been worth the three or so movies I've managed to get through.  This isgoing back to Circuit City tomorrow.  This is more of a rant/vent then a review. Sorry, but find another player.