horrible product and service
I bought 2 as gifts and both broke just after the warrenty was up. the 90 day warreny fromd the seller was up, well customer service from samsung told me that there was only a 90 factory warrenty as well, and that they would fix them for a peace. what a joke, the only cost fifty to buy. i will never buy anything factory refurbished from samsung.

Like others, dead within a year
Title says it all; I bought this with a Samsung TV and rarely watch movies (one a month) and this DVD player was dead within 9 months (purchased 10/16/08, dead 6/5/09). Samsung 32" LCD TV - excellent. Samsung 1080P8 DVD player - awful.

Dead in 3 hours
First disc played, sound was cutting out (using sound from TV via HDMI). Tried another disc, same thing. Changed HDMI cable, no luck. Tried a third disc, lost video, even the screen saver from the DVD player is gone. Power cycled the unit, no change. Built in display is working, but no HDMI output. Occasionally shows garbled video output. Unit had latest firmware.

Dead in less than a year.
Worked great for about 6-7 months aside from occasionally needing to turn it off and back on in order to get the HDMI to link up. For the last 3 months it has become progressively more "picky" about reading discs with slight scratches on them (these discs play fine on my other DVD player), until it stopped reading them altogether, even shiny new ones. The player has always been very slow and noisy when loading, and sometimes will show the word "Skip" at the top and jump chapters, but now it just flashes "Load" and then says perfectly good discs are unplayable. I guess it is Blu-Ray time but it definitely won't be a Samsung.

Impressive
I bought this player for my bedroom tv (also a Samsung), excellent sound and picture. Easy setup and easy to use. Great price! What's not to like?