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seledka wrote:
 Before I bought it I've spent much time at sources like TestFreaks and read a lot of reviews and previews of this model. I purchased Samsung BD-UP5000 for $524.00 a couple of weeks ago and couldn't be more pleased.
Every format I've tried has looked wonderful. SD upscaling is beautiful.
Hd and BD are fantastic. I have had nary a glitch and I have found the load times to be fairly quick...and I tend to be impatient. It has performed admirably even without the update. I did download it but I'm afraid to take a chance on screwing things up if I install it. So far so good. I'll update this review if things change. |
My experience is similar. The WEP setting on my ethernet wireless converter was corrupted, now internet access is enabled.
One glitch during a playback of a BD (Hit Man) which I could never get to repeat.
I've only had this puppy 3 days, so a lot more disks to shove into it. But have done a sampling of all formats. Jury is out if the upconversion is as good as my Toshiba XA1, but since there is a lot variability in disk quality, that may take a little longer to assess.
FWIW, my recommendations so far:
Leave "Anynet+" disabled.
Leave off any enhancements.
I use the re-encode setting for audio, to process everything as DTS.
I have the 5000 programmed to power up last in my Harmony macro. Some say this precludes a possible
HDMI handshake problem.
I did the update (via disk, ethernet was not working at the time) and did not do enough playing around before to notice any differences.
Functionally, this player is 100%, and the video presentation is very impressive!
build date 1/08