Why is it impossible to find a good Blu-ray player?
351075
I had problems with a Toshiba (it constantly powered itself on and off) so I bought this Sony which had the best reviews at the time.  It worked pretty well for a while.  Now 8 months later, brand new DVDs and Blu-rays stop playing and the machine goes through gyrations that make it sound like a washing machine.  Pathetic.  It seems part of the problem is that all of these Blu-ray machines are software driven and anyone with a PC knows how many bugs there are with software...I miss my simple DVD player which didn't always try to "think" and therefore stop working.
3470317
Since originally purchasing this player it has played and read DVDs and CDs without a problem. It still reads them faultlessly.

The problem is, since originally purchasing this player, it has had issues recognizing and playing Blu-Ray disks. I have tried it internally as well as in an external enclosure, which helped when I put it on its side. I spent months believing it was an issue with Windows 7 or firmware or something else. Since it has only gotten worse, I now assume it's just shoddy. It's gotten to the point that I can seldom read a Blu-Ray at all.

This drive doesn't do the single task it was purchased to do: read Blu-Rays. It is now nothing more than a near-worthless, overpriced DVD drive, several of which I already own. I will not be purchasing Lite-On products in the future.
1820130
It seems that a lot has been said already.

Since I purchased my HD ready set 5yrs ago, I have been consistantly disappointed with the quality of HD that I've been able to get at home on it.  You know how it is, it just never looks as good as it does on the showroom floor...  Well, this is what my HD Ready set has been waiting for.  Iam fairly certain that an HD-DVD player would look just as good, but have no home experience with one to say.

If you have a sense for new technology that would most likely be the wave of the future, then you'll love this.  I was considering waiting till the release of the Sony model which is continually being pushed back.  When Samsung released a firmware upgrade for this player that was easily applied by the consumer, well it made a huge plus for me.  Add to that, that dispite what it says in the manual, it will play the DVD+R format.  Add additionally the suport for popular memory card media even if it's unnecessary, how can you beat it.

Ok, so Iam an early adopter...  Technologically speaking, if the HD-DVD camp wins the format war, a BluRay player could probably be modified firmwarewise to play HD-DVDs.  It wouldn't shock me if they do it anyway sometime in the future, just because they can.  HD-DVD players on the other could not be modified anywise to play a BluRay if the trend goes that way.

The only downside to BluRay is the price IMO...  The BluRay camp needs to figure this out soon and start dropping the prices down comparable to HD-DVD and get more product out on the store shelves before this superior format goes the way of the DiVX player.
2877867
DVD playback is good
Blu Ray Play back is good

Menu keep freezing.
Everytime try to get to firmware menu to update firmware it freeze

Tried via wireless and wired, both freezes.

The amazon playback is bad. Roku does a better job.
4784785
I got the Sony BDP-BX58 at Costco and it always was terrible at streaming Netflix, often continuously timing out and/or streaming at around 1mbps. Resolution was poor and I don't believe I've ever gotten HD streaming via this box for HD Netflix content when I have with other boxes. Plus, the Netflix menu ain't so great on this player. Now after about 5 or so months it simply won't play BluRay discs anymore. I have used a CD/DVD/BD lens cleaner and it made no difference. I'm gonna test out Costco's awesome return policy...
2053936
With the collapse of the HD-DVD market Toshiba is leveraging some of their tech into upconverting DVD players.  This player is feature rich and has excellent picture quality.  If your not willing to make the plunge to Blu-ray and your TV or receiver lack decent upscaling of their own, this is a good option for a new DVD player.
3844699
I had my samsung bd9000 for about a year when an update prompt came up on the home screen. Not thinking any harm would come I clicked the update now box. That was the last time my blue ray player ever worked. I tried all the tricks and tips that others online had advised but to no avail. I finally contacted Samsung and told them about my issue. They wanted 80$ just to look at it and refused to help before the 80$. I declined.
3971522
All this is, is another desperate attempt to get some of the people back that they lost once HD DVD went under.  Save up and buy a "Real" HD movie player.  By that I mean a Blu-ray player.
883166
I bought this defective player and had nothing but trouble with it.
I switched to BLU-RAY model BDP-S300 and the picture and sound is superb. If you are considering a High Definition player go Blu-Ray-the winning HD format.
3736807
The Blu-ray discs can play, but browse the internet almost impossible. I was not able to open the google page, leave alone any others...
3601596
This is a good low end blu-ray player.  From time to time, the system locks and does not respond to the remote.  It works again after you unplug it. I have updated the firmware many times over the last year and it does not help with the problem.
3536887
This might be an issue with bluray but I tested my hd dvd player and it played like a champ. However my blu-ray player  an hdmi only sony player would start to flicker. I don't know if its a copyright thing but i'll see if it does this with other devices.
2278505
The biggest reason I ended up with this unit is the Sony BDP-S370 would not re-encode the newer audio formats to a format my non-HDMI receiver could process, other than stereo in some cases (Dolby Tru HD for example).  This line of Samsung players is one of a handful of players that will convert the newer (better) formats down to DTS 5.1.  I find that the re-encoded DTS 5.1 audio sounds notably better than the DD tracks on many Blu-Ray discs.  From what I've found only three brands of players do this re-encoding, the fairly expensive Oppo's, LG's and Samsung's.  I bought an LG BD-270 last year and was quite happy with it until it stopped reading Blu-Ray discs after about 6 months of light use (~1 movie per week, and installing the latest software did not help).

The appearance and touch sensitive buttons are also pretty cool.  They match my Onkyo TX-SR600 quite well.  NetFlix streaming didn't seem to have as good of a picture as I get on my Xbox 360, but having Pandora on my home theater is a big plus, and YouTube in nice too.
495471
This is a nice DVD/Blu-Ray Player, which is all I use it for.  It has read every Blu-Ray disc I've tried (10 so far) and had problems with only one older, rental DVD.
The picture is good; I don't think there is much difference between players in video quality, anyway.  Everyone has a computer and many people have Apple TV, so why pay more just to get more internal apps.

The remote control is not intuitive, but that may relate in part to how Blu-Ray menus vary between discs.  You do need to stand up and point the remote right at the box to get it to respond.  But once you memorize which keys on the remote do what, and which never function for Blu-Ray discs, you'll be happy you didn't spend more to just play some discs.
1010446
I have two Samsung Blu-ray players that offer streaming video from Netflix and others but they constantly disconnect. A friend referred me to Roku so I bought it and never had a problem since I bought my first one seven months ago.  I now own three of them for three different TVs and they all worked right out of the box.
1708130
DO NOT BUY VIZIO PRODUCTS. Vizio no longer supports their Blu Ray players. Any problems with them "and there are many" and you are flat out of luck!

I was informed by them when looking for a firmware update so I could even view most Blu Rays that they no longer provide any firmware updates or support for their Blu Ray players. In fact they no longer make them. They were apparently so problematic that rather than fix their junk units that they swept them under the table and you and I are left holding a worthless player that cannot be updated to play newer titles or simply the newer discs.

You have to ask yourselves if you want to buy "any" other products from a company that will do this on a whim....
674877
I don't really have much to add that hasn't been said already. My player went into the "LOAD" abyss, and that was it. It doesn't even come on now, and it has one of my 'Mad Men' season 2 discs in it. At this point, I value that disc more than this piece of junk, so I'm not really sure if there's going to be anything to send back to them if I can't simply get the tray open. I'm really not interested in having them send another unit unless they pay shipping both ways (they pay shipping in neither direction). I've had it since late May. No company's BD players are perfect, and that says volumes about Blu-Ray in general. No product with this many problems should get past early testing. I guess they wanted to win the format war (obviously they did.) Well, now what? Blu-Ray has great video and audio, but it's so unreliable that it's almost worthless. I regret starting to build my BD collection and selling DVDs, because DVD will probably outlast this, especially now that great films on DVD are $6-10 and half the transfers to Blu-Ray are very poorly done. I definitely regret choosing this player. Samsung really blew it. I happily own other products of theirs like my LCD TV. I like Samsung, but I won't be buying another Blu-Ray player from them, ever. Given that they seem to have destroyed a lot of players with their firmware upgrades, there's no way people should have to pay for shipping to and from Samsung to get a refurbished unit. This is probably something to bring to the attention of states' attorneys general/consumer protection agencies. Getting your customers to download a program that destroys their product is akin to spreading a computer virus.