Purple Plunge by a Military Red Supporter.

Going Purple,

I just purchased for $400 the Samsung BD UP5000. I downloaded (via Ethernet) the Firmware updates and then set the player up after that. WOW!!! What a difference compared to my Xbox 360 Add on. No more shut offs in the middle of a movie, no more having a SD DVD freeze my HD Player. I can now enjoy the best of both worlds. My 60 inch Toshiba is the 2002 HDTV of the Year. Its 1080i, but never have had any problem with it. I plan on buying a Toshiba 1080p in a year or two when I do my next upgrade. I hooked the sound via optical through my 1000 watt RCA 5.1 Surround System and it sounded really sweet.

I imagine some of you will say you got to go HDMI and 1080p, but I have a wife and two boys and I had to sweet talk my wife into letting me get this Samsung player as a promotion in the military gift (E5 to E6, ANG). Plus my Toshiba HDTV has never had a problem and I had it in storage for 4 years (over a 6 year period), so I need to get my moneys worth. So, please understand not all of us have money to blow, or have a nice high salary job, or single with no responsibilities besides themselves.

I currently have 121 (34 free) HD DVD (check out my list under my profile), and later this month I will start collecting Blu Ray movies, but I will still buy the HD DVD versions of any movie that came out for both (I'm pro Toshiba).

I and my wife watched "Planet Earth" on HD DVD and wow it was so incredible. The Oceans Deep part will blow you away. The sound and picture is just amazing. I love this player so far. I just want to know since it has Ethernet will it handle all the new stuff the 2.0 players can do.

Please feel free to comment with your experience with player or any other player, or whatever you want to say,

Sincerely,

Graf Ulrich 88

Welcome to the best of both worlds

I suppose three if you include SD-DVD )

I have only had a couple of momentary sound drop outs on the optical output with a couple of movies from England and Germany...Out of Sight was one and 3 Days of the Condor was another.

But ironically, the sound tracks played fine through the player's analog outputs.

Sit back and enjoy the best of both worlds

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Thanks,

I am can't wait to see how Kingdom of Heaven (Directors Cut) on Blu Ray will look. I want to buy that movie, also Fantastic Four 2, and Total Recall, Stargate (Extended Cut), and both Underworlds.

Sadly I own Total Recall and Stargate on Blu-ray, and the transfers are not very impressive.

Yeah, but Total Recall is still a hoot to watch on either HD-DVD or Blu-ray...