Customer Reviews
Excellent Quality Sound-around. 
2007-03-17
I am very pleased with my purchase of the Samsung HT-Q80 Home Theater System. It was easy to set up and operate. The sound quality is excellent and the price was attractive. The only problem I had was that Amaxon.com did not carry the "Rear Speaker Receiver" which is an optional accessory that eliminates running wires to the rear speakers. I find that a neccessary option which I had to purchase direct from Samsung.
Good System 2007-03-17
Samsung HT-Q80 is a very good system. I don't think the audio is "knock your socks off" spectacular, but is a tremendous improvement to standard TV audio. At times, the voice audio is weaker than the background noise, in which case the listener will be tempted to increase the volume. The next big explosion or sound heard at that volume level will have you cursing in tongues and pets running for cover. A very good system and fair price for what you get.
Great bargin for the price 2007-03-14
Nice sound. Nice features. Easy set up. To be honest I like almost everything about this unit. The only disappointment is there is no clock. I wish it showed you the time when it's turned off.
Great sound, but hard to integrate 2007-03-12
The system arrived on time with some slight damage to the sub-woofer case, but nothing that hurts the way it works. Set-up was easy and the sound and picture from the DVD player is excellent. Only problem is getting the system to integrate well with the TV and DirecTV. I have not been able to get all three pieces of equipment to work well using the DirecTV RC32 remote control, so there is a lot of fumbling for the various remotes.
No mounting equipment 2007-03-10
The product is perfect, good sound, but once I got everything out of the box i relized that I didn't have any mounting equipment to have the speakers mounted on the walls of my game room and that really aggrevated me. But well I guess I'll find a way to mount them.
Great product for the Home Theater Beginner! 
2007-12-17
I got this item from a friend as a present, and let me tell you what, it's been well worth it. I read through the reviews and wanted to write one to share my personal experiences with this product so that people aren't turned off due to bad experiences of others. Sounds like a couple other reviewers got a bad product, and it's much more common to have people writing reviews about bad experiences they have, rather than constructive, good opinions after having a good experience!
That being said, I love this player. I have had no difficulties with it playing DVD's, or having DVD's getting "caught" in the player. It's played everything I've thrown at it, MP3 CD's, normal Audio CD's, DVD's, everything. To the reviewer who was adressing the USB port - The USB port on this device is not a powered USB port, which is why it reads it but never recognizes the device correctly. I ran into the same issue with my MP3 player because it does not run off of the battery when you plug it in, it depends on the USB port to provide power. Now, when I plugged in my camera, it worked fine and I was able to browse and select a background picture through that.
The DVD's on this player look amazing, and I'm only using a composite cable. I'm not sure about HDMI quality as I don't have a TV that can handle that, but I will edit this review when I do as my wife and I are getting ourselves one for Christmas. The sound quality is great, I have the wireless amplifier for the rear speakers and it sounds AMAZING, I was worried at first as it took a bit for the rear amp and the main unit to sync up, but once it did, it's worked right away perfectly every time. The preset EQ's, especially the Dolby Surround Pro Logic II, sound great when I run my Gamecube and PS2 through them.
For the beginner home theater user, this is the perfect set. It's inexpensive and great quality, as I've come to expect from the Samsung products I own. My wife's cell phone is Samsung, and now this system has convinced me that the HDTV we will be buying in the next week or two will be Samsung as well because of the quality of this system. Don't let a bad review or two turn you away from this great product, because you will seriously be impressed! If you're looking to tweak every individual EQ and picture setting, as an advanced home theater user, this probably is not the system for you. But for the average home consumer like myself, this has worked out great and I would recommend it to anyone!!
A Nice Region Free Upscaling DVD Player 2007-12-07
1. Remove discs from tray.
2. Close tray wait for 'no disc'
5. Press enter on remote. (There will be no on-screen response.)
6. Press 8, 4, 2, 6, 9 on the remote. (There will be no on-screen response.)
7. Press enter on the remote. Player will automatically shut off.
8. Turn player on.
9. turn off.
10. Turn player off then on again.
11. Player is now region-free.
Enjoy your REGION FREE DVD PLAYER!
Disappointed.... DVD player freezes while watching a movie 
2007-11-28
We bought this HT system 12/06. Like another reviewer pointed out, didn't come with brackets for the speakers - fine, didn't really expect them to be included. The surround sound works great, not complaints. DVD player is another story. It freezes while the DVDs are playing, making it impossible to enjoy the movie. Contacted Samsung, had to mail the DVD unit to their service center -- received it back, the problem was still not fixed. Now we have to mail the DVD unit back to them AGAIN, hoping they'll find what the problem is, and either fix it or replace the player. Very disappointed, very frustrating, wishing we bought a different brand.
Great sound/Lacking in supporting features 2007-03-23
I should first say that the sound from these are great for a HTIB. The lack of an EQ is a given for this range of home theaters in a box, so that should not be an issue. The upscaling works fine, the sound is more than satisfactory for my small room, and initial set-up was a breeze.
Now on to the bad...The HDMI passthrough on this system only supports up to 1080i not 1080p which was a complete let-down for me since i wanted to pass my PS3 through it. I now use HDMI from pS3 to TV and digital in to HT80. Also, when playing divx and other burned media, this player only supports recorded resolution of 480p. Anything else higher cannot be played and will give you a message accordingly. For this player to upscale to 720p and 1080i but not be able to play divx at those resolutions is also absurd to me. Finally, I had a problem connecting storage to the USB of this unit. It could not read it, and just continually tried.
So...I enjoy using this system every day for its sound, it's variety of connections, and it's very good DVD playback, but for the reasons stated above, it had its faults. Pay close attention to what you are getting and make sure this is the right unit for you. But hey, I got this for $299 with free 2-day shipping so I can't complain TOO much.
I returned this unused... 2007-03-21
I returned this because the HT-Q85 was on sale for only $33 more. It got better ratings and has 4 standing speakers which was what I was looking for.
