800-Watt DVD Home Theater System with USB Plug-and-Play
DVD only worked for 5 months...
Things were going great for 5 months, until suddenly I can't play DVDs.  The DVD audio is choppy and the video pixelates then stops altogether within seconds.  Samsung of course is difficult to deal with to have them complete a warranty repair.  Rather than just send a new unit, which most reputable manufacturers would do to minimize your inconvenience & displeasure with their company, they want me to send it off to them for 2-3 weeks.  (Not a partcularly enticing option when the unit comprises the sum total of your home audio/video equipment.)   <br /> <br />We'll see how this plays out, but I'm inclined to return to Sony products.  After all, I had the same receiver, CD player, tape deck, & DVD players for many years (nearly 20 years in the case of the receiver), and now my Samsung replacement dies after 5 months.   <br /> <br />Other down sides that I was willing to overlook, but deserve mentioning:   <br />* when you plug in your iPod to the USB port, its next to impossible to control what song is next.  It doesn't pull up the song/artist info, but rather you get a series of 4-5 random letters, so you're stuck just clicking next until a song plays that you may want to hear at that particular moment.  The work around I started using is just to plug the iPod into the stereo using the iPod's headphone jack & controlling things from the iPod itself.  The USB port is a great idea for Samsung, but its not thought out well enough to actually be effective. <br />* The remote control is not well organized.  Difficult to navigate DVDs without really concentrating on the buttons you're looking for.  <br />* The disc #s on the carousel should be white on black, rather than black on black.  Its real hard to read them -- even up close -- in a dark armoire.   <br />* No CD mode that I can discern.  So if you just want music, you gotta take out the DVDs, otherwise, it'll play them when it comes around to them.  My old Sony DVD player has this feature and would skip the DVDs inCD Mode.