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I have it hooked up through my Pioneer VSX 1018 reciever. Go figure. It's the weirdest thing. I also own another samsung blu ray player a PS3 and two Toshiba HD DVD players. Reciever does an awesome job there. I have had no problems with it for about 6 months and then all of a sudden when im watching a HD DVD movie thats Dolby Digital Plus the sounds everyonce in a while stops for a brief second. Good picture on all 3 formats. Other then those two problems the unit is great.
Never hooked it up the other way so i dont know if mine has the same problem as some other reviewer about not decodeing dolby true hd. I was able to get a replacemt for the problem. I would recommend this play for sure to anyone needing or wanting a dual HD player. Took mine back to best buy and of course they couldent find anything wrong with it and i havent contacted samsung yet about the problem. As far as the sound goes i have it set up so that my reciever decoeds all the audio signals DTS HD, Dolby True, Dolby Digital Plus, Etc. Of all my other players this is the only unit that gieves you the option to send the raw audio bitstream signal to your reciever.
The problem on occurs with dolby digital plus on an hd dvd. Also my remote to the unit has stopped working. I love that my reciever dispays the audio signal DTS HD and so on. Go Samsung.
At first it didn't play Wanted, Beowolf, Rambo; after I recieved the firmware it plays every title that I own (25 Blue- ray & 30HD). I prefer HD over blue-ray, that's just me, it doesn't matter which format you buy (HD-Amazon.com), they both have great pictures.
The bigger the T.V. Samsung BD-UP5000 1080p HD-DVD Blu-Ray Disc Combo Player This DVD Combo player is what every movie fan should have, If you don't know what Blue-ray or HD is go to your nearest Electronic store and see for your self.
It is a little pricy but if you can find one at a nice price,I recommend you buy it. the better the experience, my whole family loves this player.
My five year old loves to have movie day, who can blame him, once you have seen the picture from this player you willn't go back to standard. Some movies have better pictures than others, so be mindful of that.
No problems, great player.
I decided it was time to jump over to Blu-Ray, and for simplicity I wanted one player. Samsung tends to take a couple of months to release firmware after problems, luckily they released an update for this player on Nov. When HD-DVD officially called it quits, I picked up an Xbox 360 HD-DVD add on for $40 and lots of HD-DVDs on clearance. I bought this product a couple weeks ago. If you have an HD-DVD collection and want to switch to Blu without having multiple players in your house, this Samsung is the way to go. This is the only reason I gave the player 4 stars and not 5.
Blu Ray movies look excellent as well, the only problem is firmware updating.
I compared this against the LG BD200, and this one turned out to be an excellent choice.
From what I can tell, Sony players do better with the updates, but the PS3 is the only player that seems to have no problems with compatibility.
This player is nearly a year old now, but the HD-DVD playback was an important feature to me.
7 which fixed playback issues.
It has analog audio out, which I wanted so I would not need to update my receiver to take advantage of HD audio, this is something the LG player did not offer.
HD-DVD playback has been flawless so far, and SD-DVD upscaling is great.
I'm not a huge fan of Sony and definitely did not want a PS3, and I managed to pick this player up on clearance for $200, which I found to be an EXCELLENT deal.
If you are just wanting to jump in to HD for the first time, I would suggest some of the great deals with newer Blu Ray players, which will be upgradeable to Profile 2.0
One more thing is that you need to have it all through HDMI to do this. I see the TrueHD and DTS Master Audio in the panel of the receiver.
Wow, what a difference that made to my system. I would like to add this most recent review to let everyone know that since the most recent firmware update and many long days trying to figure out how this component works, I actually got the player to play the full HD audio resolution on my VSX-94TXH Pioneer receiver I purchased recently.
Anyways, I was able to access the other audio by changing the settings on the player under audio to Bitstream(Audiophile) and that did it. That receiver is amazing, especially because of its high amperage per channel, and believe me, that particular aspect is more important that wattage.
Do not always rely on wattage in a amp/receiver component. You really need the right stuff to fully benefit from this player.
Hope this helps anyone out there.
Unit failed after three months, was repaired, failed again.Samsung service now says the unit is unrepairable,they have no more units with which to replace it, and offer a $399 unit which will not play HD discs as replacement. Other Thoughts: If considering this unit be prepared that if it fails it probably cannot be repaired and they have no replacement units. Samsung support is atrocious.
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