Samsung DVD-1080P9 1080p Upconverting DVD Player

No idea why some are saying this is noisy. No problems whatsoever tied into my Samsung LCD. Quiet as a church mouse. Couldn't ask for a better player. Crisp, clean superb picture.

First problem: Player would 'default' to showing "Closed Captions" on some DVD's - have to return to Disc Menu to turn off CC and restart DVD.

Second problem: Picture would "freeze" - have to restart the DVD

I would like to give this player a "No-Star" rating since giving it one star might mean it has some usefulness - which it didn't.

Solution: Returning unit for a diferent brand.

ON THE PLUS SIDE: Amazon's total "hassel-free" policy to return the unit (as long as it was returned within the first 30 days)

I got this DVD player as a replacement for my refurbished Samsung DVD1080P8, the previous years model. At around 60 days, the player had problems playing discs of all kids.

To make a long story short, it took me FOUR MONTHS of going back and forth and them sending me 2 other defective players before I got a NEW P9. Now, it's been less then six months (I'm guessing) and this NEW player has stopped paying audio.

Throughout this entire ordeal, most of the CS agents from two different companies (one Samsung and the other a contractor for Samsung) couldn't give a hoot that I have a Samsung 56" DLP HDTV, a Samsung $2000 fridge, and have owned nothing but Samsung cell phones for almost 15 years.

Now I'm on Samsung "Chat" hoping just how much teeth-pulling I have to endure to resolve this matter. Do yourself a favor and buy something else.

I have NEVER had such a bad overall customer service experience in my entire LIFE! No mattere how they resolve my problem this time, I will never forget it. If I don't get a satisfactory resolution TODAY, I'm buying a Sony.

This beautiful DVD player has worked just fine so far. I haven't had the chance yet to try out some of the more advanced features, but just knowing they're there makes me happy.

I would recommend this dvd/usb player to any one. With the warning that you may not pause the avi video for more then 5 minutes?!! if you do then it resets it self and you have to fast fwd back to the spot you were watching. IE no resume!! this could be cleared up with a firmware upgrade yet to be released at the time of this posting!! I have watched over a hundred "borrowed" Internet movies and TV shows. all played flawlessly. You can only see the first 16 letters and spaces with no auto scroll or way to advance to rest of name, so besure to rename ie "heroes season 2 episode 12" to "Heroes S2e12". that is minor though.