Samsung DVD511 DVD Player
Skipped. Fixed. Skipped again.
First off this is my first DVD player. It was a Christmas present in 2000. Within days I had the skip/distortion/freeze up problems like I see so many others have had. After about 3 months I took it to be repaired. The laser was replaced. Fine..that was on Samsung. Now about 3 months later it has started again. It started about 2 weeks ago when I rented &quot;Unbreakable.&quot; It would not load. I noticed scratches on the disc. Okay..I rented another one. Same thing. Now I am getting distortion on DVDs that I own that played all the way without a blip the first two or three times. So in a nutshell you could get one that works properly, but you may get a bad one. I do not play DVDs constantly. Maybe one or two a week, so overuse is not a problem. I think'll need to lay out some extra $$$ for a quality DVD player. When it works the picture is great, the sound is great. It has features that I would never use. Plus, it is short enough to fit in the space above my VCR.