I bought a Samsunng DVD-611 at KMart two days ago for my son for Christmas. I thought the full (parts & labor)one year warranty and features made it a great buy. Yesterday I read all the reviews about it and last night took it back and got my money back. I went to Best Buy and got him the Toshiba SD-1600 that seems to be getting rave reviews for $20 more. The intersting thing I noticed at Best Buy was that they also had the Samsung (better known as the Samsuck)DVD-611. They had about 20 of the Samsung and had skids of the Toshiba SD-1200 in the ailes. They must have had at least 200 of the Toshibas. Thank God I read these reviews in time.

Great picture, great sound, nice features, Play MP3

no at this time, like to bekame a litle hot

The picture and sound quality is great,The digital 5.1 sound is great!
It has both coax and optical digital outputs,great player for this money.
Keep CD-R's clean!

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It came in a box, with packing material ta-boot. Cheap.

Well...SKIPPY! and when i bought it there was a loose piece of metal i discovered that had been causing all kinds of weird things to happen.

DONT BUY THIS unless you have some strange desire to miss parts of movies and be irritated. I have owned it less than 5 hours and i am all ready to return it and spen the extra 60 bucks and buy a toshiba.

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Great Picture

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For the money this player cant be beat. Sound is great and picture is to. All players skip if you dont keep your discs clean.

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Features, Looks, MP3 compatible, Price

MP3 not functioning out of the box

I bought this player because it could allegedly play MP3's. Some comparisons on the web showed that this is only true for the European version of this player. When I tried it at home however, there were a lot of glitches and skips in the playback. I went back to the store, and after calling the person responsible at Samsung they confirmed that there is indeed a hardware problem. The clerk extended my warranty, so I can exchange my player for a revised one when it becomes available (in a month or so). I agreed to this since I really liked the DVD capabilities and was quite happy with the video playback. My widescreen Sony had never looked so good before.

In conclusion: a conditional 4 stars (if they actually succeed in getting good MP3 playback)

System: Sony 28" Widescreen TV
Yamaha RX-V 595a
AudioPro Stage Cinema Speakers

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Well, it's inexpensive... I suppose that that could be considered a strength. Decent picture when not skipping.

Skips constantly. After 30 minutes begins randomly running through functions, as though some invisible child of three was playing with the remote. Locks the disc drawer after you finally give up on trying to watch the movie, so you can't even take the rental back on time.

This thing is pretty worthless. Okay, it's cheap. Does this mean that I should not expect it to function? I don't think so. You couldn't GIVE me another Samsung product if you were giving away 20 dollar bills with it.

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This is my first DVD player, and LAST Samsung product.

Good mp3 player

No ID3 tags reading

First I wanted to get the Tokai 725 (RAITE AVPHile) very popular in France.
But the only MP3 / DVD
player I found was the Samsung 611.

With the audio cables that came in the box so I connected it with the
audio/video input of
the stereo.

I tried one of my "usual" MP3-CDs with some 120 titles and a 2 levels
directory structure.
It took about 60 seconds to scan the directories, then only 30 MP3z could be
read.

I couldn't find anything about MP3 playback on the EU instruction manual. So I
downloaded the
arabic manual for samsung 618 (same as 611+karaoke). It says on a footnote in
the first page :
" [this player] could play CD-R media with MP3 files *.mp3 with the file name
not exceeding
8 charachters and the bitrate not below 128K per second".

I changed the names of the mp3 files and burnt a new CD-R.

It worked and recognized all the files. If the file name is less than 8
charachters long, then it comes
in the folowing shape : "XXXX*MP3".

Some rare skips remained though. I think this is due to the bitrate of some
files.

I tried with Gold CD-R (Memorex 80min) and Carbon CD-R (Hi-Space 74min) it
worked great.
Did not try CD-RW yet.

Navigating through the directories (1 level) is made easy through the TV
interface
with instant access to the files. But you cannot fast forward within a track.

Sound quality is fine.

Did not use DVDs or VCDs.

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mp3s

does not play mp3s well

i have mp3 discs recorded at 192 bit rate the player skips when playing these has trouble locating tracks what is wrong with this thing

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Cheap, functional, quiet, reasonable range of features, easy to set up and use, has stereo, composite, component, S-video, optical and coaxial connections out, so easy to make the best of it on any hifi system and TV.

Build is a tough lightweight, remote is badly designed, one or two minor video glitches so far.

I chose this player because it was cheapest I could find ($299 Canadian), and I am on a *very* limited budget at the moment, plus I have had good experiences with Samsung kit in the past and I saw a favourable review on the web somewhere or other while wondering what to buy.

The 611 is a basic player, but picture quality is pretty good on my JVC 32" TV using componment input, as is the sound, currently through a Marantz/Infinity stereo system bought in better times (but hoping to get hold of a 5.1 system sooner or later). I have had one or two minor video glitches on a couple of films lasting about a quarter of a second so so but nothing like as bad as some reviewers here seem to have had, and those have been on rented DVDs which were in a pretty horrible state even after careful cleaning, so I don't think the player itself is competely to blame. I can't say that the glitch interfered with my viewing pleasure at all. I suspect that the disc transport is fairly low-end and that the error-correction is probably not all that great either, so if you shove a poorly-looked after disc into it a glitch or two is probably on the cards. After all, that's why it's 200 bucks.

Others have detailed problems with the remote so I shan't bother, except to say that I have replaced all of my remotes with a single learning one, so the remote isn't really a factor for me. I haven't tried CDs on it and won't do so, so no comment on what they sound like. The layout of the machine is simple and functional, with a dimmable display (nice touch for the money). One thing - the machine gets oddly warm after a while. (I wonder whether this might be the cause of the video glitches that other report as occuring from about half an hour into a film and thereafter?)

Based purely on my own experience, I would say that this is a reasonable quality budget player for those who want to get into the DVD thing at the lowest possible cost. If you have another 100 or so dollars and want to avoid the possibility of the skipping others report here you might be better off considering another, well-reviewed machine. Overall, I'm satisfied rather than ecstatic with the DVD-611, but no real complaints. It will do until I get my hands on a top-end player; then this one is for the kids to watch 101 Dalmations on every other day.

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...? maybe the price tag? I don't think so...

Many... video quality on s-video, doesn't read any mp3, some video error on dvd...

Ok, read me...
I was very happy when i bought this product, main cables are present, the sound quality was good and so the video quality... but...
when i tried to listen one of my mp3 compilation... nothing happens... i've tried and tried, but nothing. In some moment it does, but for 100 cd I put on it only 1 worked succesfully... so i decided non to try more.
The video quality isn't so good like i've thought.
Many times is impossible to me to read some new dvd, specially with Disney dvd, like "a bug's life".
With s-video cable it presents some lines across the screen where the picture isn't so clear...
In a few words:
DON'T BUY IT!
DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!

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