Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Waste of Money

I bought this player to play dvd's through my new widescreen 720p/1080i hdtv. Image looks okay, the difference between the three settings (480p, 720p, 1080i) are not that noticable. The real problem with this player is that it skips...a lot. The skipping is really frustrating. The other day I put in a brand new simpsons dvd and it skipped so bad it froze up and wouldn't accept discs for about an hour. I finally got fed up and returned it to the store. I have since bought a samsung upconverting dvd player and am much happier.