Samsung HT-DM150 is a cheap home theatre system in my opinion.

Working as an engineer, I have seen many of these Samsung HTDM150 sytems. I have found many faults. Finding tech info on the Samsung sites is nearly impossible. Bad News. Stay away.

I bought this Samsung HTDM150 on sale at ShopKo for $200. At first I was very happy with it. The surround sound was great, and it seemed to have better video quality than my previous player. However, soon I began to notice glitches.

When playing animated tv show DVDs (Futurama, Family Guy) the player would get very jittery at certain points, showing several frames of the animation at once (my old player handled these discs fine). On Attack of the Clones and The Black Cauldron, the player would indicate on the first couple of scenes that there were multiple angles, when there were not. On dual layer discs, the player would pause as it switched layers between 5-10 seconds. The final straw was that the player just plain crashed at the same point time and again while watching Back to the Future (again, my old player handles the disc just fine). I returned the entire system and am awaiting a new Toshiba system. I have high hopes it'll work better.

This item takes a minute to open for a dvd, takes forever to play, and then would shut off mid movie. Alot of barracks Marines bought it and agree, go JVC.

the SAMSUNG HTDM150 is a fine unit,had mine a few months and i'm very happy with it, in dts sound mode sheryl crow's rockin' the globe live dvd sounds incredible and looks fantastic too, handles saving private ryan very well, the explosions and bullets whizzing about really draws you in, the volume goes up to 70 and i normally have mine set 58-62 which is loud, cd's could sound a little bit better but that seems to be the case with nearly every dvd player, for a night in with a good film you cant go wrong with this unit.

Th Samsung HTDM150 is one of my best ever purchases. Its not without a few niggles though. The picture and sound is awesome. It looks fantastic too and is so well built. If your heavily into sport and need good trick play features its not the system for you. I love it to bits though.