Samsung DVD-HD870 Upconverting DVD Player

I purchased the DVD player in April of 2007 and within 2 months, the players performance slowly declined until now where it no longer works. When I first received the unit I noticed that it was slow to respond to commands sent from the remote, however the player was already programmed to work with the remote control from my Samsung LCD TV and worked without any configuration setup/changes, which was nice. As time went on, the player eventually became unresponsive to remote control commands and even when interfacing with the buttons on the front of the unit. I had to power the unit off and then back on in order to get it to function again, when eventually it was completely imminent that the DVD player would not play a movie for anymore than 10 minutes at best.

I could not return the unit to Amazon because it was past the 30 day return warranty, but I have a service request in with Samsung. The unit is still under warranty so I'm assuming all will be taken care of and i'll... Read more

The DVD player freezes every few moments while upconverting to 1080i - seems like the processor is not fast enough to process it in real-time. So, now we leave it in the 480p mode - the problem goes away but it's not upconverting anymore.

This was a present for my son to go along with his new HDTV. What a disappointment! It would not read any DVD's, even new ones. I ended up returning it to Amazon.