Occasionally I will rent a Blu-ray disc and it won't play. I'll call up Samsung and they send me out the latest firmware fix. It takes care of the problem but I've already had to watch the movie on SD, put the time and effort into getting the fix, all just aggrevation. This last time this happened was when I rented the movie Space Chimps for the kiddies. They really liked it so after getting the BR fix I bought the movie. Well, this time, even after a fix, it don't play. I was doing a bit of looking around with swapping that player out in the back of my mind and discovered that Samsung has a rep for disc incompatibility. So much for the 2500, as it was in this review the statement was made. After this many generations how can they not have addressed this issue in their players?

So now I'm not sure what to do as far as what players to put on my radar. The Sony s550 could be a contender but it seems a bit slow. Most of the players now have improved on the standard disc playback. The dmp-35 maybe but from what I've seen so far Panasonic is keeping their player's prices up. Amazon is blowing out Pioneer BD-p51's at $289.00. I'll have to do some checking on that one. I noticed that even players not out yet are coming with Bonus View version 1.1 where we've had 2.0 out for awhile. Anyone know the difference between 1.1 and 2.0?

Isn't it a shame to already be looking for an upgrade when most don't even have a BR player.