Samsung DVD-HD931 HDTV Converter Progressive-Scan DVD Player
BE CAREFUL!  KEEP YOUR RECIEPT!
I waited for months to buy this DVD player. I already have a Samsung 47&quot; HDTV with a HDCP DVI Input so I figured this must be fate. Finally I would be watching movies in almost high definition quality and finally I would get to use the DVI on my tv to really see what it was capable of.<BR>So I run to the store swipe up this machine and run it home quickly to see what Lord of the Rings would look like in 1080i resolution.<BR>Straight out of the box I set it up with preciseness, followed the manuals instructions even though I am pretty much a video wiz with years of experience and knowledge. Set the machine to 1080i output and I sat down with a cold coke and fired up Lord of the Rings. I was expecting to be amazed...but alas I was horrified. First the sound output with optical cable was crackling and fading in and out and that is just on the menu. Then when I started up the movie, it randomly was skipping, and the picture was of a lesser quality than my good old dependable progressive scan DVD player. I thought for sure this was a mistake. I had expected amazing picture quality. I tried 720p output and it was worse than the 1080i. So I decided to make sure I wasn't blind and I hooked up my old DVD player to the component output and switched back and forth between the two and clearly my JVC Progressive Scan DVD player had a far superior image. I tried to tweak and make sure that it wasn't a cable or a setting error. I did all the things possible that could be a human error. In the end I found myself extremely disappointed and returned the machine that very night. So I recommend sadly that perhaps you invest in a good quality progressive scan unit and do not fall for this units false abilities. It may upconvert the signal through DVI connection to a 1080i resolution but it isn't anything near HDTV quality. I was so disappointed...please don't make the mistake I did by purchasing this unit.