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What do you think of the Samsung 5000?

Posted by Christine Tham on February 3, 2008 at 11:49:07:
I was pretty keen on it, but then all the problems (ie. no DTS MA decoding, no Profile 1.1) kind of turned me off.

I'm still kind of hoping Samsung will be able to fix the issues, but the fact that they are discontinuing the player in May has me worried.

I ended up going down the PC path, and bought the LG GGW-H20L "universal" reader and BD burner (I have over 2TB of recorded broadcast HDTV that I plan to burn once media prices come down). The latest version of PowerDVD no longer downsamples audio and is Profile 1.1 compliant. All in all, I spent less than US$500 (given I already have a PC for watching digital TV).

I prefer Blu-Ray for the higher capacity, but HD-DVD for lack of region coding. Even though Blu-Ray may or may not have won the format war, there's a few HD-DVD exclusive titles worth owning.