P.S. If you can still find a Samsung BD-UP5000 for cheap, grab it over this one. With latest firmware update, BD-UP5000 is almost perfect and offers better picture quality than 1500, especially on upscale SD DVDs thanks to its Reon chip.
Glad I hung onto mine! :¬) Seems like the 5000 is now one of the best Blu-ray players period, unless Profile 2.0 is your thing. And of course, HD-DVD playback is a great feature if you've got a library of them.
Is it just me, or is the 1500 a bit ugly from the front?
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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P.S. If you can still find a Samsung BD-UP5000 for cheap, grab it over this one. With latest firmware update, BD-UP5000 is almost perfect and offers better picture quality than 1500, especially on upscale SD DVDs thanks to its Reon chip.
What he said... +1^^
Glad I hung onto mine! :¬) Seems like the 5000 is now one of the best Blu-ray players period, unless Profile 2.0 is your thing. And of course, HD-DVD playback is a great feature if you've got a library of them.
Is it just me, or is the 1500 a bit ugly from the front?