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"Maybe for the price being dead after 2 years isn't horrible" on
Pros: It had a very nice picture.
Cons: Tended to hesitate and get the picture/sound out of sync. Now it will not power up at all.
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"ok, until the movies freze/skip" on
Summary: This machine worked fine, although NUON technology was useless for me (no games, CD's that are easily found). I had this machine for just about a year when I noticed one movie statred to freeze in the middle of a scene, then the problem got even worse. Amazing, just after the warrentee expires, so does the machine. Annoying remote that needs a firm "click" to enter menu items. worked fin eon mp3, vcd's but now that most of the quality disk movies are freezing up , the machine is destined for the GOODWILL box. Useless other than CD player now, for that I'll get a SONY for $99.
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"Loads of feature, but doesn't perform basic function!" on
Summary: Great features, great picture quality but skips too often. I've had mine for almost a year now. It skips even to brand new, out of the box DVDs! Extremely frustrating. This product had mixed reviews and I should have known better; I regret buying this DVD player. I even have the latest update on this, yet it still skips. Yes, it has great features, but what is the point if you can't watch a darn 2 hour movie without it skipping 5-6 times. It starts to skip about 45 - 60 min into the movie, after that it's really bad and skips like every 2-3 min. And it has skipped to just about every movie we've watched. I did buy the extended warranty from Best Buy, but they say "we can't find the problem", so I'm stuck with this thing. Like they actually sat and watched a movie to see if it skips. I guess a customers word is not good enough these days! I'm rating this awful because it doesn't perform it's basic function well enough to be worth any kind of money.
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"Having problems with lock-up even after upgrade" on
Summary: Today I was ready to throw my 1 1/2 year old P.O.S DVD-N501 player in the garbage after at least a dozen calls to Samsung and after CVE, Inc. (service center in NJ) already "fixed" it once before. It got to the point where I couldn't watch any movies becuase they would either lock-up or start skipping complete chapters. I then saw a posting here about the BIOS upgrade and found it on the web. I upgraded the unit (was still at version xxx.45), but I'm still having the same problems. I'm completely amazed that none of the 3 idiots I spoke to at Samsung or the 2 morons at CVE Inc knew anything about the upgrade. The only way I found out about it was at this site. Maybe the consumers should be running Samsung.
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"Jitter and lockup even after upgrade" on
Summary: Even after BIOS upgrade, one out of two DVD's exhibits significant amounts of jitter and lockup. Great feature set but very infrequently do I use the extra features. Slow to load and frustratingly slow to respond to remote. Music CD's play fine but the visual effects are distractingly vivid - probably great at parties but absolutely useless for casual or quiet listening. If you want to play games, get a game machine.
Samsung DVD-N501 user reviews
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