the jury is still out for me
I have a 50" Grand Wega XBR and I just got the Samsung player. No doubt that for less than $300 the picture quality is excellent using the component video outs. It totally beats the Denon DVD-900 its replacing. Not so sure on the DVI yet... it's sharper but seems to have more pixelization and artifacts. I've got an Audioquest DVI cable on order and I'm hoping that it might just be a matter of Samsung supplying it with a cheap cable. Even if there is no improvement I wouldn't regret the purchase as the component out playback is top notch.