Hector D. Iglesias
or manufacturing a reliable DVD player (according to online reviews). I read all the negative reviews but thought may be those folks do not know how to follow instructions, may be they dropped their remotes and so on. So I buy this player, set it up, and try to get it to work, which I did, but while playing a DVD the movie would play and stop, play and stop almost continuously. Long story short the remote was defective right out of the box and it was causing the intermittent fault. Id like to keep the player just because it matches the TV brand. However Im concern in the long term reliability, if something so elemental as a remote control comes defective from new, what else will go wrong? I honestly like Samsung products and know they are made of very high quality, but after my experience, and the negative reviews posted online I am lead to believe this product not only is in the low end of players but also of lesser quality, or perhaps poor quality control at manufacturing. In a related issue (the delivery of the player), zero or below zero points to the driver that delivered it. I was seating in my living room, able to look outdoors (but people from outside cannot see me). There is a screen door and behind a regular door, which was half way open (indicating someone is at the house -or have bad memory and left it open). So I can see the little Enterprise van, the delivery man getting off and walking toward the front door, and almost stealthily placing the package to the side of the door without even bothering to ring the doorbell or even just say "delivery" before leaving. Poor attitude! UPDATE: Following day I started fumbling with the pause/play pushbutton in the remote when it popped up to the same height as all the others. I clicked it several times and realized that this problem was solved. Haleluya! Long story short I got everything to work. Love everything about it and the fact that sometimes only one remote control will work with TV, Internet and DVD player.