rock me amadeus!

There is a very good benchmark for measuring battery life during an active workload in 4
different scenarios called MobileMark 2007 by BAPCo.

count me in, i like stuff too!

happy to see the VGA resolution support. its always bugged me

I had severe playback issues with SD dvd's to the point I returned this unit b/c I didn't want to be stuck with a bad player after the 30 day return policy. I had spoke with a Samsung CSR and they said a new firmware would be release to address the issue, but had no delivery date. When I read the new update came out last Friday I re-purchased the player again Sunday and retested with the discs I had issues with. Playback would freeze after 5-10 minutes of playback and sometimes the dvd menu's would lock up. Only problem was on standard def discs: Spiderman Superbit, Episode3, Pearl Harbor, X-Men, Superman Returns)

Blu-ray playback was always excellent and never got hot as some have claimed. And this site's review for the player was spot-on for those that want to read it again.

i think i was aware of the limitations to HD audio formats over spdif. i did not know that only some players re-encode to DTS. so a movie set to a Dolby format (DD+, TrueHD) will be decoded and re-encoded inside the player, output via spdif and the reciever will identify it as a legacy DTS 5.1 format? for some reason i find that very humorous!!

Does this only happen on discs that do not contain a DD legacy track?

"Dolby Digital Plus and TrueHD encoding to DTS via S/PDIF works great for those without HDMI audio."


Can someone link to me to more information on this feature?

if you think back to the first days of DVD, players did not support DTS at all. either it was a region contract with dolby or dts simply couldn't get their act together in time, the first 2 years of DVD were Dolby only even though the rest of the world typically (Europe and Asia predominantly) has DTS as a primary and Dolby as a secondary audio stream.

I'm glad to see Universal pushing for DTS support in the audio dept. It forces other manufacturers to support a full spec sooner and IMHO, DTS just sounds better.

how was the update performed? were you notified somehow to accept an update or did the box magically reboot one night and the new guide was there?

i live in N. Raleigh and haven't seen this update yet.

just want to say thanks for posting blu vs. dvd stats now (even if they are spun) i've been asking for this since January.