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After checking out the APEX Dvd player that was the first machine to play MP3's, but had bad reviews, I was happy to hear that Samsung also had a similar product in the works. The 711 works as expected, playing CD-R's with MP3 files (over 10 hours of music on one CD) and the more common self produced CD copies. The video quality is very good and the machine has all the output options one could ever need. Strangly, the manual mentions nothing of these features and actually states that CD-R and CD-RW are not supported?! Buy this one!

I purchased this player with the hopes that it would be a quality unit. I had never purchased a Samsung product before. My DVD-711 had problems right out of the box. The first movie I played froze in several places during playback. The frame would stop for a moment, and then continue. The second DVD I played was a brand new out of the box concert video. After about and hour into the concert, my Samsung simply froze up. The screen was all streaked and the sound was stuttering. When I hit play, it corrected itself, but the sound was no longer in synch with the singer. I returned it to Amazon.com as a defective unit.

This very model of DVD player belongs to my roommate. It skips and freezes often, even on brand new DVDs. Sometimes, after removing a DVD from it, I noticed how hot the disc and player were. Of what I do know of electronics, I know that much heat should not be coming from a device that has only one small moving component.
Having searched the web for possible solutions to this problem, I have come upon this page and have seen the exact same complaints from other people who have this player. This can only lead me to believe that the entire model is defective and should not be purchased.
Please avoid the hassle of this poorly designed piece of machinery. Other DVD players may be more expensive, but at least they work.

7-11 brings to mind convenience and operating 24 hours. I don't know about the 24 hour part, but this DVD was easy to setup and has worked right from the start. We bought the Blockbuster 30 day DVD pass and put this player right to work. After three weeks and about 8 movies we find that sound is good, picture is good and the player has hardly skipped. When it did I cleaned the CD put it back in the player and it was fine for the rest of the movie.

We rented the Matrix to test skips etc. and it played fine.

It also handles MP3 music as well as regular music fine. What do you know it slices and dices and playes MP3 as well as DVD.

I don't have complaints that the other reviewers have had about skipping etc. It was rated a best buy in Consumer Reports and so I thought we would give this one a try and it turned out to be a good player.

Your experience with an identical player may be different so liability for this review is to be - read at your own risk.

Happy with Samsung in Seattle

I recieved this DVD player for Christmas. I was very excited and got it hooked up with no trouble. The instructions for the setup and use of the features were simple. But, as I started to watch the X-Men I figured out I had no sound. I returned the product and returned home with one that had sound and picture. I got home and hooked up the player a second time. I started playing the movie again and about halfway through it it started to skip constantly. I thought it had to be the movie. I played another movie, the Matrix, and it played perfectly. I also played the Skulls which worked well. Then I tried to play The Cell today and about halfway through it it started to skip so badly that I had to stop the movie. This player obviously has something wrong with it. I am returning this player a second time tomorrow and am going to opt for a different and more reccomended player. Maybe I'll have a little more luck.