Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23852 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: DVD-HD860/XEU
• Released on: 2006-07-12
• Number of items: 1

Manufacturer's Description
An HDTV or a High-Def TV requires a DVD player that can deliver equally breathtaking visuals and sound. Samsung's DVD-HD860 can take conventional video and audio signals and upconvert them to breathtaking 720p/1080i quality. Through HDMI" (High Definition Multimedia Interface) Output technology and HD JPEG playback, this DVD Player can also transfer hi-def video and audio to the HDTV without any loss in detail. Just 45 mm in height, it fits neatly into any size home theater system.

HDMI Interface

The High Definition Multimedia Interface module (HDMI) transfers hi-definition video and audio from your HyperVision DVD Player to your TV,Home Theater or other digital AV components without loss of any digital signal. Simply connect your DVD player to your Home Theater System with a single HDMI cable.

Hi-Def Conversion DVD Player

The DVD-HD860 converts the resolution of ordinary DVDs to 720p/1080i for improved video and audio quality.

DivX Playback

Samsung's DVD players deliver high-quality DivX movies. Insert DVDs and CDs that have DivX movies downloaded via computer and enjoy watching them on a large screen TV!

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Customer Reviews

Not multi-region!
Generally a good machine. However; "Amazon" advertise it as "multi-region". It should therefore arrive as instantly "multi-regional". Not only is that not the case but I have tried to convert it, using several procedures from the Internet. None work on my machine (purchased about Oct.07)

Excellent Multi-region DVD player!
Here we have the Samsung DVD-HD860. I can find only good things about this little gem, oh and yes physically a gem because it looks marvellous in the living room!

I currently have it connected to my CRT TV with a home cinema system also attached. Setting it up was very straight forward. Simply plug a scart lead into the TV and connect the other end into the DVD player. I also connected a digital cable from my AV receiver into the back of the DVD player. For 5.1 surround sound this took around 15 minutes and the instructions were very easy to follow.

The best part of this little player is that it's great for people who have HD televisions. It upscales an ordinary DVD to 1080i or 720p HD quality. Okay, this doesn't quite match true HD quality (like Blu-ray or HD DVD), but still, after seeing the difference with one film, you may find yourself going back and re-discovering your entire collection.

The player will also accept a large number of formats. For example, it will take MP3, JPEG and WMA formats which make it great for viewing homemade media. This player will even playback DivX coded formats. DivX is becoming more widely used and is a free codec for compressing video files (great for when you need to fit a video onto a CD that is slightly over 700MB)

The onscreen menu is very simple to use. Pop a disc into the player and it usually loads automatically (dead easy!). One minor gripe however, is that sometimes there's a slight delay in the player responding to commands made from the remote. Then again though, this could be due to low battery or the remote not being pointed correctly.

Just to echo what other reviewers have said in the past, getting multi-region going isn't hard either. Simply follow these instructions and you can convert your normal region 2 player in a multi-region one.

1. Turn on the device with no disc in the tray. The onscreen display will then read "No Disk".
2. Press the "Repeat" key on the Samsung remote control.
3. Then input the following code: "5 7 5 3 8" on the remote. Number then 2 appears onscreen for a short time.
4. Then press "9". Number 9 is then displayed onscreen for a short time.
5. You've now changed the region code on your player from 2 to 9 (all regions)
6. Finally, switch the player off (using the "On/off" button) and then back on again and you should be able to play discs from another region (US region 1 discs, etc).

Overall, this player is brilliant! Samsung are certainly making splendid AV products of late. I would say this has to be the classiest low cost DVD player I've seen in a while. Oh yeah and it even features in What Hi-Fi? Magazine May '07 as the one of the best value players around (check the "Buyers guide").

GOOD...WHILE IT WORKED
bought this player to go with my new samsung lcd tv and was immediatly impressed with the picture quality and the styling.then it started to go wrong.like a few reveiwers on this site my machine would switch itself onto stand by mode every now and then until it started happening more and more to the point that watching a disc was not possible.sadly by then its was after amazons 30 day return period was over so after speaking to samsung its now in the repair shop.ho-hum.