Samsung BD UP5000 1080p HD DVD Blu Ray Disc Combo Player
Samsung BD UP5000 1080p HD DVD Blu Ray Disc Combo Player
The BD-UP5000 Duo HD player is positioned as the flagship in the company’s growing line of high definition players. Offering the same playback capabilities as the BD-P2400 including HQV (Hollywood Quality Video) processing, the BD-UP5000 supports both Blu-ray and HD -DVD formats as well as their interactive technologies, BD Java and HDi. Consumers can now enjoy additional studio content such as trailers, director’s comments, more elaborate interactive menus and behind the scene footage.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Installed the latest firmware update and I am impressed.
I have this product since January 2008. Fabulous picture and the HQV chip works wonders. However, I was a little disappointed with the audio performance until now. Just tried it with National Treasure II (Dolby True HD) and was blown away. They obviously have fixed everything. 5 stars now.
5 Stars Great Value
Saved me money by not having to replace all my HD DVD movies. Plays all movies crystal clear without paying an arm and a leg!
4 Stars minor issues
My main complaints: It won’t play discs with a printed label stuck on them, there are a few HD titles that won’t play (the Planet Earth series is one), and you have to wait about a minute to open the tray after turning it on. Other wise it works fine, the picture is beautiful on my 61″ Samsung DLP.
5 Stars Disregard the earlier negative reviews
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.
3 Stars DVD-R Playback Problem
First I have yet to update my firmware so keep this in mind as well as the fact I’ve only had the unit about two weeks. That said I’m not overly impressed except for the obvious fact that the BD-UP5000 does play both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs. That is pretty cool for those of us who have HD-DVD discs. The less cool part is the the unit seems to NEVER plays a DVD-R recorded disc all the way through. Oh, it starts well and plays generally 3/4’s the way through…Then it stutters for a bit and usually eventually freezes. What the heck is this about. The cheapest “Brocksonic” drug-store $[...] DVD players are able to play DVD-R discs? Do any of you that own this player have this problem too??? It could just be my unit, but likely others have experienced the same problem and I’d love to know if there is a solution.
The other uncool part is that this player is suppose to have a very highly touted upscaling chip that trickled down from the Teranex ($[...]) commercial unit. While the BD-UP5000 makes standard definition DVD’s look good it is apparent if you have a Toshiba HD-A2 player handy from which to draw a comparison that the Samsung’s upscaling is not as good as, at least in this case, a much less expensive Toshiba.
If I could just get this unit to where it did not balk on DVD-R discs it could be my one unit. Of course I’d like the upscaling to give me better pictures like the Toshiba, but mostly I just need it to play all my discs. Any tips on how to achieve this will be appreciated.
jwwerner@bellsouth.net
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