Features:
Being almost half the length of a traditional DVD player, the DVD-F1080 incorporates some other minor design changes as well. The top of the player is more of a subtle arc as opposed to a flat surface. Being a gloss black, it will probably be a dust magnet, just like my gloss black 2232GW monitor from Samsung can be. Some may not like the fact that it isn't stackable, but if you have something with this design I would rather display it than hide it in a stack anyway. They've eliminated push buttons in favour of touch-sensitive buttons. As you can see in the pictures, there's one line of these buttons on the top edge of the player. Pressing each button is audibly heard with a short beep. Looking for a screen? Unfortunately that wasn't factored into the design of this player so you will have to rely on the screen menu for a time counter. Some people expected this player to be slot-loading because of the size and design but it does use an actual tray, it's just a bit thinner than the standard DVD player tray.

Spinning it around to the right side you can see all the logos for the different formats supported for playback.

Looking at the back we can see that Samsung has not put every connection style possible back there for obvious space saving reasons. Instead, they have covered the basic and most popular connections that most everyone will use. You've got your standard RCA analog video and audio outputs, component video output, coaxial audio out and HDMI. With so many people running high definition televisions these days we will likely start to see more players like this that eliminate the "bulk" of connections in favour of only HDMI and a couple extras for those running older televisions. The AC power cord connection is also back here as well, Samsung has chosen a detachable cable design instead of hard-wiring this cord to the player.

The supported playback formats on the F1080 are what I have come to expect on new DVD players these days. It supports MP3, WMA, VCD, SVCD, JPEG, MPEG-4 and DivX formats. As mentioned earlier, the F1080 supports upconversion to 720p, 1080i or 1080p. The upconverting is done through the digital HDMI output because the traditional analog style outputs can not handle this sort of signal information.

In following suit with giving the player's design a twist, I was surprised to see the remote that came with the F1080. Also being modified quite heavily from what you would expect a remote to be, the F1080's remote is extremely thin and only slightly larger than a credit card in size. To power this remote they use a button cell battery instead of the usual AAA batteries we usually see. Through using second functions on some buttons they are able to keep almost all the same features on it that you would find on a larger DVD player remote.

 
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