If you don’t want to pay for Nero, the famous burning program, you can try Free Easy CD DVD Burner which does the same thing. You can use it to burn data, copy disc, burn image file and more.

As for me, I use it to burn image file onto a disc because the built in burning software in Windows 7 doesn’t burn image file so what I found is this Free Easy CD DVD Burner.

Download here.

After experiencing with the Samsung DVD 1080PK player for a few weeks, I am liking the player because to me, I uses a Samsung LCD TV and with its remote, I can control my TV and player at the same time. So, there’s no need to use 2 remote control for 2 devices.

All latest Samsung DVD player’s remote controls are capable of doing so. So if you have a Samsung TV, it’s good to get a Samsung DVD player too.

Don’t classified me as a Samsung fanboy, it’s just a coincidence that I am using a Samsung LCD TV and I got to review the Samsung DVD player. Of course, I love my TV and the player too.

Finally, I get to play some DVDs on the new Samsung DVD-1080PK player that I got recently. It’s a nice machine, sleek design with HDMI output and upscaling of DVD to full HD.

Setting up the player is pretty easy, just a HDMI cable will do it all. Though, you might want to tweek with the sound output because you don’t want your sound to come out from the crappy TV speakers unless you got a HDMI amplifier at home.

I connected the DVD player via HDMI cable to the TV, then I muted the sound on the TV. As for the sound output, I uses left and right channel to my Panasonic DVD Home Theater system. There’s actually output for rear, subwoofer and center speakers, I don’t really know where it connect to, speakers or an amplifier. But whatever it is, I can be sure it’s for providing a home cinematic experience.

Although it’s not digital output, I manipulated the left and right channel output to a 5.1 Dolby Digital channel and it sounds good with the rear and all the speakers working. It’s just not as loud as DTS.

For first usage, remember to change the display setting to a 16:9 if you are on a widescreen TV, I bet most of you are already on a widescreen HDTV. Then video output should be always in Progressive Scan mode. When these are done, you are ready rock your DVD.

I was watching Traitor on this player with upscaling on. What I saw was the picture quality it’s just okay, not as good as a Bluray. When you go closer, you can actually see that the picture when pixelated or sharpen because of the upscaling. I’ve test on both machine, one with upscale and another without, there’s indeed a little bit difference. Pictures are sharper with a HDMI cable than component cable.

Though, there’s not much significant difference when watching a DVD on your comfy couch far from the TV. If it’s a Bluray player, then there will be because I’ve tried Bluray before and the quality was superb. Samsung should have send me a Bluray player instead. Haha.

Anyway, I do like this player in term of it’s HDMI output and design. The setup menu is a bit slow but that don’t really bother you a lot. There’s extra feature like CD ripping to flash drive and karaoke mic input which I haven’t tried yet, but the main feature of this is still watching DVD.

To improve this, make it a Bluray player. =)

First of all thanks to Samsung for allowing me to do a review for the new DVD player, the Samsung DVD-1080PK. Well, I love movies, I love DVD and I love watching them on my comfy bed. Currently have a Samsung LCD TV and a Panasonic DVD cum Home Theater System in my room. Cut that crap and let’s get into some pictures of the new Samsung DVD-1080PK shall we?

From first glance, it’s a all black DVD player with piano black coating on the front. It’s looks like a very cool player, it maybe a Blu-ray or maybe not but unfortunately, it’s just a DVD player that upscale video into Full HD.

I like its black colour because it matches my black LCD TV a lot. The player is a lot slimmer than my Panasonic DVD player.

In term of design, it’s just a typical rectangle player but its simple looking design and the colour makes it looks classy in the living room.

There’s not a lot of button on it, there’s a little cover that will flip open which reveal the USB slot of ripping music onto a flash drive and the 2 karaoke mic input.

The only down side is, elders which eyesight problem may not know how to operate this because it’s all black and they will hardly see which part of the player is actually a button and which part is not. That doesn’t really bother a lot because there’s always a remote control.

All Samsung’s remotes are identical. The second one from the left is this DVD player’s, next to it to the right is my LCD TV and the last one on the right is a Samsung’s home theater system’s remote. I have a few Samsung machines at home. Haha.