Customer Reviews

Samsung HT-SK5 Progressive Scan DVD Home Theater System with Klipsch Speakers

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There is no delay, as another review claimed. (Delay is adjustable, based on speaker placement) Excellent sound reproduction. This was a good deal at $500 plus. For $299, it is a steal. Klipsh Speakers are unbeatable, even by Bose standards.

Digital input often produces loud static when you go from HDTV to normal TV. DVD won't alway play unless you unplug the unit and wait awhile before trying again. I just hoping there is a firmware upgrade someday. I have never been so unhappy with a major purchase.

Seemed like a decent system overall for the money. However, I can NOT recommend this system as I also have an issue with audio not in sync with the video. I have ruled out my set top cable box as the source of the out-of-sync problem. This is an EXTREEMELY frustrating problem for an A/V system to have. The audio is ALWAYS several seconds behind the video on the screen. This is unacceptable and I refuse to recommend or purchase a Samsung system again.

The HT-SK5 is a lemon--don't buy it. Although the sound quality is great, the audio doesn't match the video when you're using a digital input, like digital HDTV. So, the lips don't match the words on any digital stations. It made it impossible to watch any HDTV programming, which essentially was why I bought it.

After 3 months of dealing with Samsung's poor technical support, including shipping the product back to Samsung, I learned from Samsung that they can't fix the problem, and they don't have a replacement product that would work better. The only thing more frustrating than the audio sync problem was Samsung's awful technical support. The staff was poorly educated about their own products, they never returned calls or e-mail like they promised, and seemed to have no concern for their customers. Don't waste your money--in fact, Samsung treated me so poorly, I can't recommend buying any Samsung products.

I had two of these DVD players break down in the span of 6 months. The first system ate our DVDs. One got stuck in the changer and it cost quite a bit to get it fixed. Then it broke down altogether, and would not read any discs. We got a replacement because it was under warranty. The second unit had the front panel break off. Still worked okay for a few weeks, but then the DVD started skipping and freezing. The audio and video were not in sync. The DVD tray would no longer open. Sent it in to the mfr at my expense and was told it could not be fixed. Don't waste your time and money on this system!

strong points - the klipsch speakers are great. the subwoofer is outstanding.

weakpoints - progressive scanning is choppy. the picture coming out from the component video out shows a lot of video noise when connected to my HDTV. also does not have audio output (forget digital audio, it does not have an audio out at all).

personally, i just bought this product for the speakers, i used it to connect to my harman kardon 435 (you have to buy a separate subwoofer amp since the sub amp is passive).

I have been very happy with this setup (for the money) with the exception of an out of sync issue when changing from one digital channel to another on by cable STB. I have to change the channel on my box to one of the channels in the analog spectrum (1-78) then switch back to the "digital" channel to sync the audio and video back up. Annoying and frustrating. This is not the fault of my STB because I don't have the problem unless the receiver is in the mix.