Samsung BD-UP5000 1080p HD-DVD Blu-Ray Disc Combo Player

Manufacturer: Samsung Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price:$999.99 Our Price:$538.09 Features: Blu-ray and HD DVD playback at content native HD resolution of 1080p/1080i/720p HQV video upconversion processing - HD video (1920 x 1080) BD-ROM, BD-R, HD DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, Audio CD, CD-R, CD-RW playback 1080p 24fps playback on Blu-ray and HD DVD Full HDI capability via HD DVD Dolby® Digital, Dolby®Digital Plus, Dolby® TrueHD, dts-HD, HR, MA (upgradeable by firmware) 16 7/8" W x 3 1/8" H x 12 13/16" D Description:

Reviews:

Problems with an $800 DVD Player!
I preordered this like a good number of people, and received it in January. Unfortunately, I had travelled, and right today obtained a chance to connect it and observe some films of Blue-Line. The first film to the top - 3:10 in Yuma "charge" during 5 minutes - I lost my patience at this point, and stuck a second film inside - this time when that functioned. I am not made quiver this brick $800 up to now. The Amazon - I want my money back.


Very Innovative and Classy
Samsung BD-UP5000 is my third player of Blue-ray and my second player of HD-DVD. It will replace my Samsung BD-P1200 and Toshiba HD-A2. I was very excited to obtain both safety-def of the playable formats in a machine. It is a unit very chews, and recalls me with what smoothes Samsung BD-P1000 resembled when I bought that. Frankly, I think that the 1000 are a better made player than the 1200 same with levellings of software package. The levellings at the 1000 made it better. The levellings at the 1200 made it worse. Very odd. The PQ in the 5000 is stellar. I identified the improvement immediately. Each one is upwards in arms about TrueHD dolby being only 2.0. Not so much an exit for me. I had listened to my discs DVD-Audio in the channel of high resolution 2 stereophony and the noise is incredible. I suppose that Samsung works on a levelling of software package on this question to bring TrueHD dolby to 7.1 channels. This player was honoured at THESE 2007 with the innovation with the reward with year. It deserves certainly to be identified for its advance Hello-Def at the house of the industry of theatre. I am very happy with this unit and will be proud to show his possibilities with my friends. It is worth the sorrow the investment.


Very good, but could be improved
Is not Dolby TrueHD multi-channel capable. The samsung bd-up5000 only plays 2 channels in Dolby TrueHD, but soon I hope will be.

Very good image, sound, stylist...

It should be multiregion, at least 1 and 4 (almost same for Region A on blu-ray), Hope that soon it would.


BD AND HD-DVD, oh my!
A good number of people are confused on a share, but it is a problem with themselves, or probably their receiver, not the player: TRUE HD dolby is only (of the 2.1) stereo signals. DIGITAL dolby is only 5.1. DIGITAL dolby be is 6.1. THX is 5.1. There are three forms of noise 7.1-channel: The logical pro dolby 2, THX-2, and the majority 7.1 recievers will invent a 7-channel mixture out of a stereo source with stereophony 7ch.


Great Player!
For me it is the answer. I love this player! I did not want to go with two separate players. I simply do not have the space of rack or enough of ports of HDMI on my receiver to run Xbox360, a satellite receiver of HD and two high players of def. The council, council with the receiver manufactures us needs more than entries of HDMI and surrounds the 20 approximately made up entries, which has by always using the!?!?! of composed in any event Why made this player have the!?!?! exits of made up Oh and Samsung mercies of the made up cable. I bought a player upconverting panny dvd approximately 8 months ago and panny at least it included a cable of piaulement the HDMI with their unit $75 which I noted that the skys blue-clearly are little granularities or noisy on one of the disc of HD which I bought with this player. It is the only player of HD which I ever had thus I do not know if it is Samsung or if it is in film its art of the self-portrait. It is apparent if reading you all the reviews on this player and realizes of the problem but my guest do not note it until I announce it. I use a 65"que DLP of Mitsubishi you will probably not note it on smaller screens. Their A also to be some reports/ratios of him doing something of strange with the audio the main thing or something like that sure not truth. I do not think that my old receiver of Onkyo of year is capable of SDR my in any event. With Prologic dolby II tops and the THX place at the cinema. Acoustics 7.1 is nothing less than narcotic. Samsung is supposed to have an update of software package which east should fix principal acoustics of SDR out soon of the!?!?!? It charges standard deviation DVD in approximately 15 seconds, HD DVD in approximately 30 seconds and the Blue-Ray in approximately 45 seconds. To convert standard deviation DVD high is astonishing! Well better than Samsung BD-P1400 I replace. With the difference of Sammy 1400 this of phase played free of the matrix hard and POTC right out of the box. The difference of the undercarriage this can reach all the devices of allowance on the two formats! Leave the wars format continue! ! I already gained with this player! UPDATE: Since Waner Bros had supported the Blue-ray and HD DVD and recently decided to drop HD DVD I think that this will be the end of the wars(just of format my opinon). but if I were to do it once again I would save certain an amount of money and purchase right a player of blue-ray.


Excellent picture, wonderful convenience, audio needs work
Fence-sitters of the format war, sit no longer! Samsung's BD-UP5000 Duo Player is the best way to conveniently enjoy all formats. Just be sure you know about its quirks before you buy.


First off, the picture quality is outstanding. HD-DVD and Blu-ray come through in dazzling 1080p as you'd expect. The big surprise comes when you play an older SD DVD; the quality is dramatically improved by the HQV Reon, which is one of the best available upconverting chips.

The 24Hz video output makes a subtle improvement when used with a compatible display. Unfortunately, a few HD-DVD titles refuse to output 24Hz with this player.


This player's biggest drawback is HD audio support. First, let me say that if your audio output is SPDIF (toslink optical or digital coax) you won't be missing anything yet; multichannel Dolby Digital and DTS work just fine.

However, if you have an HDMI-capable receiver, you'll be disappointed to discover that the BD-UP5000 neither decodes nor bitstreams any of the HD audio formats except PCM. Rumor has it this will fixed with a firmware update in May, but there's no guarantee of that.


In summation, this is an excellent player that'll handle any format you throw at it, and make them look beautiful; just don't expect advanced audio formats yet.


Good Effort-Still a Work in Progress
Credit is due Samsung (and LG, for that matter) in trying to resolve the HDM format war with universal players. The 5000K, lacks full HD audio codecs implementation. Playback on a limited number of High Definition media was impressive, although compatability problems have been noted for discs of both types by other owners. If you currently have of library of both types, this model is worthy of consideration, although with Warner's recent declaration of going Blu-Ray only, HD DVDs will likely become increasingly rare. SD playback is troubling with respect to multiple audio drop-outs.
Details as follows:

Mine is a Dec 07 build. I'm using HDMI through-out. Based on a day and half's use, Set-up was straight forward (to an Integra DTC 9.8)and Sony SXRD XBR2 LCoS set. Performance is as follows:
-HD DVD (1 tested) Fast loading, full menu navigation, excellent sound and picture. No stoppages
-Blu-Ray (1 tested) Fast loading, full menu navigation, excellent sound and picture. No stoppages
The tested discs do not include those noted as having play-problems (e.g. 3:10 to Yuma, Star Trek OS, etc.)

Mitigation:
Samsung has issued one firmware release with another reportedly in the works in the immediate term to deal with various playback issues. A longer term upgrade to handle the advanced Audio Codecs activation may be issued in May 08. Samsung's responsiveness to the problems has been rather halting with various parties getting different answers from customer support. (See AVS Forum for details). The Samsung website currently has only limited information.

-SD DVDs (5 discs tested--personally owned and Netflix rentals): Excellent picture quality, but multiple short audio drop-outs on all tested media, which do not appear to be at the chapter stops as some have thought and are not always repeatable.
Although I have a dedicated player (Oppo 980) for SD playback, this is a noteworthy defect, especially if you are intending the 5000k as a one stop solution for DVD playback irrespective of media.

-CD playback (3 discs tested): Mid range distortion on one one of three. Not a deal breaker, but again somewhat disturbing that there is a defect in this application as well.
Overall, this is a workman-like product, which, if Samsung follows through with firmware updates can be improved considerably. With the format war appearing to tilt in favor of Blu-Ray, the 5000k may become a niche product, chiefly for those with extant libraries of both media types and carries a premium price.


Awesome!!!
I had this during a few weeks, and I am affectionate it. The business with the audio problems should be sorted with future levellings of software package according to Samsung. I did not have a simple problem with this unit. The interface is exceptional. The possibilities 1080 24P are the enormous ones more and they are pretty much a final unit of Spéc. for the two formats. The only thing which it misses is RAM 1GB that Spéc. final of 2.0 Blue-rays requires. And Spéc. 2.0 will be never a condition with any player of Blue-ray. It is only one option. It seems large, of the races more quickly than any other autonomous player than I had. It has all the ports of I/O which you have need and it is not over-estimated Sony. Samsung is a very good mark, but with Sony you pay the name. It is rather easy to employ outside, and reasonably comfortable. Although I suggest obtaining an outside of harmony if you can. The only problem that I ever had with any Samsung is their reception remote ANGER. You tend to having to aim the unit directly. I was accustomed to having Samsung TV and should aim at outside to you right right. This player is not almost as bad, but it seems picky.


BD-UP5000 good and bad
I took a BD-UP5000 when the limited quantities seemed in semi December 2007 and were completely happy with the unit. It is my first company in the playback of disc of HD and to have a simple box to play all the formats of DVD was essential. This player provides excellent the image and quality of sound (exceptional standard deviation including DVD upscaling). Less than 10% of HD DVD and titles of Blue-Ray have only one way of TrueHD which will produce as a stereophony 2-channel. The majority of the discs have other ways which can be selected: DIGITAL dolby, multichannel PCM, SDR, etc... Thus the lack of multichannel TrueHD is not as large an exit as it can seem. Always equalize a title which the limits you to 2.0 frustrates. Blockings and the strange behavior when the loading and the set of some discs are frustration, but from what I read the majority of the players pass by increasing pains and the content providers are at least a part of the problem because they can influence the manner that the player behaves with the menus and the devices made on order. 5000 A a silicon Optix Reon to run the upconversion of standard deviation of HQV. The quality of standard deviation DVD is astonishing. You need the video of HDMI/HDCP while the similar components are limited to 480p based on constraints of authorization. The output of HDMI supports 1080p60 and 1080p24 as well as other more common rates. 1080p24 is remarkable since it sends a film to posting with him is indigenous rate of reinforcement of 24 reinforcements a second without presenting an unrolling order of 3:2. However, posting must be able to receive 1080p24 AND to have a refresh rate of 72 or 120 hertz to completely eliminate the movement "trepidation". The 5000 will decode DIGITAL dolby and healthy ways coded by SDR with the multichannel PCM and will embark them outside via HDMI. Or the player can be still placed in the mode "audiophile" which sends undecoded the bitstream to the receiver to decode there, via HDMI. Some audio ways can be sent to the receiver by the intermediary of optical or coaxial connections of S/PDIF, but not to the higher ways of bandwidth such as the multichannel PCM. You must have HDMI for those or employ the 7.1 similar exits. The mode of "reencode" converts all the audio formats into SDR, enabling you to obtain multichannel acoustics with your receiver via S/PDIF optical/coax if HDMI is not an option. The 5000 had a rock beginning and is always somewhat unstable and misses principal devices. While one announced the first part of 2007 to him, it was not transported until semi December 2007. Several of the problems of compatibility of disc were fixed by an update of software package released in semi January 2007, but there remain some discs which have problems. The 5000 suffers from random blockings requiring a cycle of power and lack of the support of the avançés audio formats: TrueHD and SDR dolby HD HR/MA. Moreover, of the standard discs of definition are always stretched at 16:9 same for the contents of 4:3. The majority of the TV and postings cannot unstretch the image without reducing the size as well. Engineer de Samsung working with this product indicated that they realize of the problems and the multichannel sound support of disappeared. He said that they project an important update of software package in the section of time of May 2008. Speculation with the forum of AVS (the wire of the user 5000' S is 3000 positive posts! ! !) is that Samsung is based on Broadcom to provide software packages of DSP, thus it can really Broadcom until we wait. This is included/understood since the BH200 has the same audio limitations of format and employs the same piece. Updates of software package can be made by the intermediary of a connection of Ethernet to the 5000, or you can download a CD image of OIN of the Web site of Samsung and burn a disc not gone back to any PC or imper (of the procedures of update of imper are not documented but work very well: employ the utility disc or roast the Copy of disc to burn the file of image; do not use the mechanism of the burn of the discoverer.) Samsung announced the BD-UP5500 at THESE January 2008 with the availability in the section of time of May 2008. The 5500 is not a true replacement for the 5000 since it does not have the upconverter of Reon, nor it has the multichannel analogical exits. The price should be lower than the 5000. This could be an option for some, but the lack of Reon/HQV is a business for me since there is much more DVDs standard deviation that the Blue-Ray and combined HD DVD. Those which have a separated audio processor can also need the multichannel similar audio exits. The replacement 5000' S true will be the BD-UP6500 which had outside late in 2008. The Blue-Ray Java and HDi allow the content providers "increase" the experiment of viewing with the material additional on the disc and/or downloaded Internet. Personally, I want just to observe film while the producer/director envisaged. The 5000 is currently Blue-Ray BDJ 1.0 with a promise for 1.1. The 5500 will have to be BDJ 1.1 based on the Blue-Ray specs/timetable. The 5000 (and 5500) will be never BDJ 2.0. The 6500 should be BDJ 2.0. The 5000 is supposed to support HDi but not to have tested it. If you want a solution simple of box which can play the major part of HD DVD, Blue-Ray and discs of standard deviation DVD, and can live with the limitations at least until the updates of software package are available, the BD-UP5000 is worth the sorrow the serious consideration. Your only another choice is undercarriage BH200, but it does not have the upconversion of Reon HQV or the similar audio exits multichannel. Other that that, the 5000 and the BH200 have primarily the identical devices with the similar prices: $750 for the BH200 on the Amazon, currently. However, if you need on board decoding or bitstreams for TrueHD or SDR dolby HD my, the Blue-Ray and the playback of HD DVD and cannot await updates of software package, you will have to seek the Blue-Ray separate and the players of HD DVD.


Warning! Dolby TrueHD Only 2 Channel on bd-up5000
Warning! This thing is not able multichannel dolby of TrueHD. They employ the fine characteristics of impression of TrueHD dolby to deliver a product i.e., in my opinion, of lower quality when it comes to the theatre to the house. Samsung data base-up5000 plays only 2 channels in TrueHD dolby. The states of user's manual in the fine copy "when playing a disc dolby of TrueHD, acoustics will be only heard above the left and right loudspeakers front". I also called the support of Samsung on this subject. After keepbeing kept on the catch and to be disconnected several times... they confirmed that this unit will play only 2 the TrueHD channel. The technician of level 2 with the samsung continued me to say that TrueHD dolby at least requires only 2 channels for Spéc. and continued to say to me to be informed of him on the Web site dolby. The technician of samsung also said me that they do not have any plan on publishing a "difficulty" to make the channel of thing of samsung data base-up5000 multi for TrueHD. I just improved my amplifier thus I could accept a multichannel signal dolby of TrueHD and I ordered samsung data base-up5000 because it is announced as having TrueHD dolby. Duet data base-up5000 of hd of samsung is at least not TrueHD dolby multichannel compatible... not if you ask no matter whom in whom intends to intend their theatre at the house "to surround the noise". Not much the noise to hear starting from a unit this only exits 2 channels of TrueHD dolby surround. I am really disappointed by Samsung.



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