 Outstanding Combo Player |
| Review Date: January 2, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Simon E., Connecticut, USA |
This is an excellent combo player that has performed flawlessly for me with both HDDVD and BluRay. An elegent, albeit expensive, solution to the current hi-definition disc format war, both formats look and sound great. If you own an HDTV of greater than 40 inches in size you owe to to yourself to check out these new formats - WOW!
More movies please - I'm done with regular DVD! |
Awesome player!
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| Review Date: April 6, 2008 |
| Reviewer: JSR700, Clark, NV |
| Not wanting to dispose of my HD-DVD collection after the demise of HD-DVD, I sold my Xbox HD DVD player and bought this one at $449. The price plunge from $799 was just too great to pass up. The fact that this unit now costs as much as a blu-ray only player, I just had to get it. After downloading the latest Samsung firmware, I was blown away by the clarity of the picture and sound. The upconversion of DVDs was even better than my OPPO DVD player. I can see better details and hear clearer sound. It adapts very well to my THX 7.1 surround sound. Also, although the box says it doesn't play DVR+W, it actually does play it with better video and sound clarity. This is the best player I have ever owned. |
Great Player!
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| Review Date: January 17, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Raul Duran, Monte Vista, Co USA |
For me this is the answer. I love this player! I didn't want to go with two separate players. I simply don't have the shelf space or enough HDMI ports on my receiver to run a Xbox360, HD Satellite receiver and two high def players. Hint, hint to the receiver manufactures we need more HDMI inputs and ditch the 20 or so composite inputs, who's still using composite anyway!?!?! Why does this player have composite outputs!?!?! Oh and thanks Samsung for the composite cable.. I bought a panny upconverting dvd player about 8 months ago and panny at least it included a cheep HDMI cable with their $75 unit
I did notice that light blue skys are a little grainy or noisy on one of the HD disk that I purchased along with this player. This is the only HD player I have ever owned so I don't know if it's the Samsung or if it's in the movie its self. It's noticeable if you been reading all the reviews on this player and are aware of the problem but my guest don't notice it until I point it out. I'm using a Mitsubishi 65" DLP you probably wont notice it on smaller screens.
Their has also be some reports of it doing something weird with the master audio or something like that.. not real sure.. I don't think my year old Onkyo receiver is capable of DTS MA anyway. With the Dolby Prologic II on and the THX set to cinema. The 7.1 audio is nothing less than amazing. Samsung is supposed to have a firmware update that is should fix the DTS master audio out soon!?!?!?
It loads SD DVD in about 15 seconds, HD DVD in about 30 seconds and Blu-Ray in about 45 seconds. The up converting of SD DVD is amazing! Much better than the Samsung BD-P1400 I replace.
Unlike the Sammy 1400 this played Live Free of Die Hard and POTC right out of the box.
Unlike the LG this can access all of the bonus features on both formats!
Let the Format wars continue!! I've already won with this player!
UPDATE: Due to the fact that Waner Bros has been supporting both Blu-ray and HD DVD and has recently decided to drop HD DVD I think this is going to be the end of the format wars(just my opinon). but if I were to do it all over again I save some money and just buy a blu-ray player.
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FANTASTIC - SAMSUNG ROCKS! Forget Sony.
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| Review Date: May 8, 2008 |
| Reviewer: G. Michael, Raleigh, NC |
I bought this player because I had started to build my HD-DVD library quickly and I refused to buy a Sony after their suspicious back room deals with the movie studios. A problem I experienced with my Toshiba HD-DVD players (yes, plural) was that standard audio CD's would not play well and would have small pauses during playback. This Samsung plays everything perfectly.
For those people who have never experienced HD-DVDs, consumers lost out in this format battle. There is a lot more to just getting 1080p from a disc. The menus, pause, play, etc. are so much better on HD-DVD than Blu-Ray.
So, for those of you who are like me and have a few HD-DVDs or are buying them on fire sale now and want to also be able to play Blu-Ray discs, I do highly recommend this player. I am not a major audiophile so I cannot speak directly of it's technical abilities, but I just know that all my movies, regardless of format, look and sound great using this player in my home theater with 8' screen. |
Disregard the earlier negative reviews
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| Review Date: June 1, 2008 |
| Reviewer: jshock, Omaha, NE USA |
| Thanks to the latest firmware update, those earlier criticisms about the unit's audio limitations have been overtaken by events. Virtually overnight, the BD-UP5000 has gone from flawed product to one of the best-performing hi def players on the market. It's always had a beautiful picture, for both Blu Ray and HD DVD, but now handles the latest audio codecs as well. |
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