Samsung DVD-C631P 5-Disc Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Samsung's latest generation DVD players bring a new level of performance and prestige to this fast growing format. Samsung DVD players are specifically designed to deliver the ultimate in picture quality and convenient features. The DVD format has grown incredibly over the past few years and Samsung has delivered players with all the features you are looking for.PRODUCT FEATURES:5 Disc Progressive Scan DVD Player;Slim Design (less than 80mm);Mecha Speed Changer;MP3/WMA Playback;VCD/SVCD/DVD-R Playback.
Samsung's titanium-finished DVD-C631P five-disc carousel changer dishes up favorite movies and music, featuring high-end component-video outputs, built-in MP3 and WMA (Windows Media Audio) decoding, and compatibility with JPEG image CDs and Kodak Picture CDs so you can enjoy a slideshow of digital pictures right on a television. Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVD-C631P stands ready to deliver the full potential of DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, provides higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. In addition, top-of-the-line component-video outputs help minimize digital and line-scan artifacts on compatible advanced televisions, while composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television. A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio output for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver. Another handy feature is EZ-View letterbox eliminator, which makes it easy to enjoy full-screen pictures on 4:3 aspect-ratio TVs--even when you're watching widescreen DVDs. Supplied accessories include a composite-video/stereo analog-audio interconnect, instruction manual, and a remote control.
Samsung DVD-C631P 5-Disc Progressive-Scan DVD Player Accessories
Samsung DVD-C631P 5-Disc Progressive-Scan DVD Player Reviews
Perhaps my room is far too dusty. In any case, I find it practically unusable. I have but one qualm with this product.a major qualm, actually:It is not good at actually playing DVDs.
I don't know. The picture quality this player produces is quite up to par. I have attempted to clean the player numerous times, but to no avail.
I almost always end up having to watch the DVD on my computer. Again, perhaps the skippage is due to the environment that the player is in. I routinely find myself trying to use it, hoping it won't skip, but to no avail.
The sound quality is also good. The tiniest scuff or scratch results in audio/video skippage.
I agree with most of the above reviews.I was also disappointed that this changer does not change to the next disc automatically.You would think that a 5 disc changer would play a disc all the way through and go to the next disc number and play that one too.Not so.You cannot randomly play 5 music cds.There are mistakes in the owner's manual.I found this out by calling the 800 number and explaining that the screen does not show what the manual says it should show.Two things that I love about this player:The picture and sound.I hate the fact that on some movies if you stop the player to grab a sandwich and come back and push play again the movie starts all over again.What a pain.Also I wished that when you power up the unit it would not go into autoplay before you get a chance to go to your easy chair and sit down.Subtitles are hard to get rid of.The default position is on.It doesn't matter if you don't speak German or Italian.It will still put the first language listed on the disc subtitles into action.You have to hit Subtitle on remote to turn it off.I like the picture format changer located on the remote.You can changer from letterbox to screen fit with the remote while the movie is playing.I bought mine brand new in box for 69 dollars.
I actually do have an HDTV capable set (one of the Sony 1080i models), and can comment on the video quality of this player. When you display a 16:9 picture on a 4:3 set, it is "letterboxed," meaning that there are black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. DVDs are encoded with 480 lines of vertical information. My old Pioneer progressive scan player broke, this player was cheap, and I figure that it would probably be a good choice. Specifically, it means that your DVD player will output a video signal with all 480 lines of resolution, and your TV set will squeeze it onto the right size screen.The problem with this player is that it does not correctly output an anamorphically compressed widescreen signal. This causes a greater difference to the picture quality than the difference between a progressive and interlaced signal.So, in my mind, this is a useless player for the serious videophile. That's the problem that anamorphic compression solves: it stretches a letterboxed image out to a 4:3 screen, to make the signal about 33% sharper.
On several discs (like the Matrix), I couldn't get the player to properly output an anamorphically compressed widescreen signal to my TV. My biggest beef with this player is that it doesn't properly output an anamorphically compressed 480p signal.What is anamorphic compression anyway. Ideally, you'd want to use all 480 lines for picture, and not for black boxes. As you've probably noticed, HDTV sets are wider; they have a 16:9 aspect ratio instead of a 4:3 aspect ratio. Along with the useless changer mechanism (see the other reviews), I can't recommend this player. So, I had to resort to letterboxing the image, losing 33% of resolution in the process. My TV accepts 480p signals, and automatically letterboxes 480p signals with anamorphic compression.
My old Sony, which I was never that fond of, despite not being billed as being able to play alternate media types, performed the basic functions an order of magnitude better. I've also had problems with it locking up completely while playing 2 different DVD's, and needing to be unplugged. Samsung should make toasters for a living, home electronics is clearly too challenging for them. I have to marvel at Samsung's engineering on this product.
I rate this player not "one star", but "5 poopies". Unbelievable. I can't believe that this is a product released since 2000. As is mentioned by dozens of other reviewers, it won't play across discs, random or otherwise.
If a team designing this came to me and told me this was what they were planning on sending out the door, I'd fire all of them on the spot, give them glowing job recommendations to my competitors, and bring in some high school kids that had some vision.I also tried burning some MP3 and Windows media audio files onto 2 different types of CD media, even at 1x, only to be rewarded with a continuous "loading" message, followed by a message that this disc can't be played.
No, you can't play CDs randomly. The picture is clear, sound is too. But, if you have a home theather system and need more than 1 set of outputs for audio, both analog and digital, as well as 3 different video output types, this machine is great. For the money, you can't find a better set of features. Everything is easy to use and I haven't even had to look inside the manual yet. And its progressive scan, so it will work with high def TV down the road.
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