Samsung DVD-M301 DVD Player
A Disappointment
Ok, it was better than the DVD player on my computer, so I will give it 3 stars, but there are much better DVD players out there.  I got this one almost a year ago now and it has been a disappointment.  It takes over a minute to read discs and then to start playing them.  Sometimes it will not even play them at all and I have to reload them.  On the plus side,  it plays almost everything though including CDR, CDRW, MP3s, and SVD.  Sometimes it will not play the SVDs after it has played fine days ago though.  That is very annoying.  It also malfunctions when playing some DVDs.  I doubt that I have played a DVD from start to finish without there being some type of blip on the screen at some point during the movie.  Also, the remote is cumbersome and there is no backlight LCD on it.  The DVD does not offer progressive scan either.  I believe if it did it would read the discs faster and there would be less screen \\"noise.\\"  Overall, the picture is pretty awesome.  During the year, I avg playing at least 5 discs a week and there has been no degrading of the picture screen.  My problems are with the time it takes to start up and play and sometimes it refuses to play certain SVDs and MP3 discs.  It makes for a good value ...   However, I am disappointed enough to place it on Ebay and try a Sony or JVC.  I can not recommend it.