6.7 out of 10

Samsung DVD-HD870

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Best Price: $89

  • User Score (67)
    6.8 6.8 from 67 reviewers
  • Expert Score (5)
    8.7 8.7 from 5 reviewers
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Pros & Cons

  • excellent detail, great picture quality, picture quality, feature packed, sleek design
  • has no 1080p upscaling, remote control, sluggish controls, ugly menus, hdmi component usability issues

Samsung DVD-HD870

The Samsung DVD-HD870 is a tabletop DVD player that measures 16.9 x 1.8 x 8.1 inches (W x H x D) and weighs 1.04 pounds. It comes in a black enclosure color and has a tray loading disc drive.

The DVD-HD870 outputs video at 1080i resolution. It can read DVD+R, CD, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, DVD+RW, SVCD, VCD, Kodak Picture CD, DVD, and DVD-R media types. It also supports playback of a wide variety of digital media standards including DivX v.4, XviD, MPEG-4, DivX v.5, DivX v.3.11…

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Samsung DVD-HD870

The Samsung DVD-HD870 is a tabletop DVD player that measures 16.9 x 1.8 x 8.1 inches (W x H x D) and weighs 1.04 pounds. It comes in a black enclosure color and has a tray loading disc drive.

The DVD-HD870 outputs video at 1080i resolution. It can read DVD+R, CD, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, DVD+RW, SVCD, VCD, Kodak Picture CD, DVD, and DVD-R media types. It also supports playback of a wide variety of digital media standards including DivX v.4, XviD, MPEG-4, DivX v.5, DivX v.3.11, WMA, and MP3. JPEG photo playback is also supported.

Some of the player’s playback features include picture mode options including letterbox, normal, pan & scan, and widescreen. It also has search speeds from 2x to 128x. When playing DVDs, its repeat modes include per chapter, per title, and A-B. CD playback modes include repeat folder, one track repeat, random play, and repeat shuffle. The player also has picture zoom features from 2x to 4x.

The Samsung DVD-HD870 is equipped with a 24bit / 192kHz audio digital-to-analog converter. Its audio system outputs Dolby Digital and DTS digital. It has a response bandwidth from 4Hz to 44kHz, a dynamic range of 100dB, a signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of 110dB, and a total harmonic distortion of 0.004%.

Apart from a 19-pin HDMI Type A terminal, the DVD-HD870 offers a number of other ports located at its rear panel. These include outputs for S-Video, digital audio, coaxial digital, SCART, component video, audio, and composite video.

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  • DivX playback - SAMSUNG’s hyper vision DVD players deliver high-quality DivX movies. Insert DVDs & CDs that have DivX movies downloaded via computer and enjoy watching them on a large-scale TV.

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  1. 03 November 2008

    Here it is: the DVD player that has put all the other budget models in the shade. So how has Samsung done it? Well, rival players have a significant negative point: whether it be a lack of detail, motion problems, or price. The Samsung, on the other hand, involves no such compromise. It’s the one real DVD all-rounder in its class. The amount of detail and insight on offer here are very high indeed, even in the dark corners. What’s more, once this detail is unearthed,... Read more

  1. time to upgrade but best player ive ever had

    Reviewer: smallclone, Epinions
    01 September 2008
    Overall 8
    8.0
    Ease of use 10
    10
     

    with 1080p being all the hype i felt i needed to upgrade from this player to an upcovert 1080p player. this samsung unit though not 1080p was IMO a much more user friendly and all around better player. played anything i threw at it flawlessly, options and user settings were easy to use and find. not to mention DIVX! and Optical outputs. only problem was that the open/close button stopped working after 6 months. Read more

  2. Don't waste your money

    Reviewer: Brian Alan Ratliff "New Dad", Amazon
    16 June 2008
    Overall 2
    2.0
     

    Very disappointed. As others have reported, the remote is very slow to respond to commands. Worked fine out of the box. But started having issues, the most annoying being that via the HDMI output the audio is not sync'd with the picture. And of course it will only up-convert via the HDMI output, which was the major selling point. Audio seems to be fine thru the Component output. Searched the Samsung website for a possible firmware update. I did not see a "update" listed,... Read more

  3. Bad buy.

    Reviewer: Plasma TV Compare
    19 January 2008
    Overall 2
    2.0
     

    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. Read more

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