So you’ve been downloading lots of video files from the Internet (movies, drama series, documentaries, etc), and then what? Watch them on a desktop or laptop, or maybe burn them into a DVD, 8-in-1 disc.

But you don’t want a simple, box-like video player like the ones you had before.

A stylish player would be like the DVD-F1080. Perhaps this is one of Samsung’s video player that has gone way out of the box. And yes, it doesn’t have the usual box-like design most DVD players have.

Although the dimensions of the F1080 is almost square in shape, it’s only about two inches thick. The top portion has a black, piano gloss finish without any visible buttons. What’s there are embossed symbols indicating the device’s power, play/pause, skip and eject.

Plugging the unit lights up the LED on the power symbol. All you have to do is touch it to turn it on, as the symbols are soft-touch keys. But every time you touch it corresponds to a loud beep, indicating that the device responds to your touch.

Speaking of the lightweight remote control, it seems to be fragile so you may have to keep it from falling off your hands or from the table or wherever you place it. Once it gets broken, you may not be able to access features not found on the device.

A good example would be when choosing the episode from a DVD disc with several AVI files. To select one, you obviously need a navigation pad only seen on the remote.

Unless you want to do "play, skip, skip, skip" on the touch keys (and with the loud beeping on the background), better take care of the remote.

The HDMI is one good feature integrated in the F1080. Combine it with the High-definition upscaling capability (from ordinary DVD video to 1080p, 1080i, or 720p), there won’t be any loss in digital signal in video as well as audio output from the player to the TV.

That makes the F1080 ideal for most HD LCD TVs. But it can still be used even with the widely-used CRT because it has the standard AV RCA port and component port as well.

If you always watch videos with foreign language, the use of subtitles is a must if you don’t understand it.

The F1080 can read .srt, or what is technically called a SubRip, file. So you can now play those drama series (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Mexican, etc.) files that you’ve backed up once more, minus the PC.

MPEG-4 files can also be played, and you can use various types of discs from DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW to CD, CD-R and CD-RW. Pair it with a good home theater system, you can enjoy full Dolby Digital Surround, giving more life to your videos.