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Finally bought one Saturday, no thanx to Circuit Shitty's continuously poor customer service.
In no particular order:
1. It plays discs of both formats. I haven't tried DVDs or CDs.
2. PQ is quite good, probably as good as that of my Toshiba HD-XA2. (I'm using HDMI to my 67" Sansung DLP-type RPTV.) The sharpness set on High makes the image very grainy and UGLY; I'm using None.
3. Audio quality seems as good as the Toshiba's; I'm using 6-channel analog to my c-j MET1 preamp. The 1st day there was some low-level breakup noticeable in the centerchannel, but it disappeared yesterday.
4. Of the 17 hi-def discs in my unwatched pile, it played 14 HDs and BDs. It will NOT play 'Tears of the Sun' and 'Sunshine' BDs and 'The Kingdom' HD. I'll be trying to update firmware today.
So far I'm happy. I've been an HD DVD fan as I really don't like consumer-electronics-bully-Sony, but I now have maybe 2-dozen BDs. Many have really clunky menus, and even on a Sony BD player, they require more time to start and switch to the next thing. How this format was adopted by ANY studio other than Sony's is beyond me.
I see only one advantage to BDs--many have higher-res sountracks, even six channels of 48/24 PCM, than HDs, but with highly artificial movie audio, that's a minor advantage for me.
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Tin-eared audiofool and 1000-yard benchrest shootist.
http://community.webshots.com/user/jeffreybehr
Follow Ups:
...'Tears of the Sun' BD and 'The Kingdom' HD, but it still won't play 'Sunshine'. I've read on other forums that some copies of 'Sunshine' BD are defective or at least problematical; perhaps I can get it replaced.
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Tin-eared audiofool and 1000-yard benchrest shootist.
http://community.webshots.com/user/jeffreybehr
Any particular reason you bought the combo player when you already have the XA2?
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Tin-eared audiofool and 1000-yard benchrest shootist.
http://community.webshots.com/user/jeffreybehr
...to go with your HD-XA2. I suspect it's because you don't have enough 6 channel inputs to support two (2) HD media sources so you are replacing the XA2 with the Samsung. I don't have that issue, but than again, I might prefer the sound of the CJ preamp to my own for multichannel SACD.
...occupy one set of 6-channel inputs, so I have room for only one more 6-channel source. I used the XA2 but replaced it with the 5000.
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Tin-eared audiofool and 1000-yard benchrest shootist.
http://community.webshots.com/user/jeffreybehr
I'ld be curious how iy handled DVDs. How hard is updating the FW?
Jack
just now, to a Mac, unzipped it, burned CD-R, inserted in the 5000, wait about 60 seconds, it spits it out and asks if you want to update the firmware.
Clicked enter and in 2 minutes I was done.
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