The BD-UP5000 is awesome thread.

[darthbaker182]

Everyone seems to be crapping on the 5000 so I thought I would start a thread about the good things it does. Got mine last night, did the update right out of the box and BAM! Movie magic. Popped in POTC: AWE first. Played great. Next was Planet Earth HD-DVD. Amazing. Saw IV, Mr & Mrs Smith, Die Hard 4, all played great. Only thing i noticed was the menu on Mr & Mrs Smith was not normal but still worked just fine. I am very happy with my purchase. I got a HD DVD HDA1 on day one. Bought a PS3 the week it came out but was buying BD movies since it was released. I am very excited to have one player for all my movies. Plus I love the remote. It is very similar to my Samsung HDTV remote so now I can use it for both. Anyone else care to point out the positive qualities of the 5000?

[AznNintendoFan1]

I dont know about anyone else here but I thought it was an excellent player. I had one last month and it was great. I gave it back only because it wouldn't play combo discs very well at all. My Star Trek TOS Combo discs wouldnt' play. I dont really like combo discs, period, but just the fact that it wouldn't play it was just beyond me. I tried two different bought sets of the series (Which I neglected to mention) but it would play the same for both. Sound was just fine since I only use my TV for speakers. And all the Fox movies were just playing great. I'm surprised that many people were having problems with it. The menu for Mr. and Mrs. Smith was just fine. It starts with the front of their house and the slide-in options at the menu came in just fine. I dont care about the movie Sunshine but I still do collect most Blu-Ray titles and now all my HD-DVDs are becoming less in number because I am exchanging the warner ones for their blu-ray counterparts and the paramount ones for the ones that used to be relased on blu-ray before the switch. So far it's great. I have a gigantically large library of blu-rays which can compete with others as having a high number but only titles that potentially interest me. I just bought Million Dollar Baby, The Road Warrior, and The Game Plan on blu ray. All good titles. I am probably gonna buy one next month or the month after assuming I make enough money to buy one again without pushing my credit card into so much debt. Instead with the money I went and bought an electric bass. hahaha. So yeah, I'm a thumbs up on this machine!

[gene9p]

won't play on the the 5000

[jeffreybehr]

I've written several times that I love mine. It plays everything I've tried but MAYBE 'sunshine', and I write 'maybe' because I stuck that in last night and it played for 10 minutes before I turned the system off.

I don't have '3:10...' so don't know if it plays. Also, I'm using the 6-channel-analog audio outputs and not the digital connections. I can sympathise with those who are frustrated trying to get at least some higher-res audio codecs out a digital feed.

I'm happy.

[Chickengas]

Hurray for the 5000!

[darthbaker182]

I have yet to try a combo disc (which I have several). Was this fixed with the firmware update? That would suck if all of those titles could not play. Is it ALL combo discs or just a handful?

[Chickengas]

I never bought a combo disc and avoid them just in case they don't play. What a stupid idea....combo discs....

[bujee1]

Wow.
What a short thread!
Will it play trueHD or DTSMA through the analogs?
How about good old fashioned DTS and DD?

[jeffreybehr]

bujee1: "Will it play trueHD or DTSMA through the analogs?"

It'll play and pass to the analog outputs EVERY hi-res sountrack I've played including the few BDs I have with hi-res (48/24) PCM tracks.

[TIMS2SENSES]

Originally Posted by jeffreybehr

bujee1: "Will it play trueHD or DTSMA through the analogs?"

It'll play and pass to the analog outputs EVERY hi-res soundtrack I've played including the few BDs I have with hi-res (48/24) PCM tracks.

Are you sure? Because everything on all the pro HiDef sites and letters from Samsung are saying "NOT YET, ONLY STEREO, UPDATE WITH FIRMWARE DUE IN APRIL". I would double check because you are the first place I have read this from in the last 24 hours of owning and researching this machine.

[AznNintendoFan1]

Originally Posted by Chickengas

I never bought a combo disc and avoid them just in case they don't play. What a stupid idea....combo discs....

Yup, I see practically NO use for a combo disc. We buy HD-DVD players to watch HD-DVDs, not play stupid combo discs. We should just stick to a SDVD player and buy the regular ones and hope to god the upconversion is decent. I seriously hate the idea and think it's completely stupid.

[vinnie97]

I love combo discs...I can play the disc ANYWHERE since DVDs are so ubiquitous. Nothing stupid about that, IMO. Let's not turn this into the perceived failure of combo discs please.

Here are the combo discs that I've tested which play without issue on the 5000 so far: TMNT, Hot Fuzz, Children of Men (first 30 minutes at least...need to finish this one), Bourne Ultimatum, Eastern Promises and Evan Almighty. I believe it played Breach (need to verify) and I'll get back to you all on The Departed, Superman Returns, Letters from Iwo Jima and The Kingdom.

[jeffreybehr]

Tims2senses, what I KNOW about my 5000's audio feeds is that I use the 6-channel-analog outputs, I always manually select the highest-res audio track, and sound appears in all 6 channels of my system. So there's certainly a conflict between my experience and the source you quoted. Be very careful to read all the context of these kinds of statements; I understand the problem exists with the DIGITAL audio outputs and not the analog outputs.

[TIMS2SENSES]

Originally Posted by jeffreybehr

Tims2senses, what I KNOW about my 5000's audio feeds is that I use the 6-channel-analog outputs, I always manually select the highest-res audio track, and sound appears in all 6 channels of my system. So there's certainly a conflict between my experience and the source you quoted. Be very careful to read all the context of these kinds of statements; I understand the problem exists with the DIGITAL audio outputs and not the analog outputs.

You may be giving me hope here. I haven't opened my Samsung UP5000 yet and after reading all these reviews, didn't want it anymore. I guess I will have to call Samsung tech support. I will follow up after.

UPDATE: Jeff you are correct! Samsung Level 2 Tech Support says the problem is only through the digital outputs. It will internally decode all codecs except HD Master Audio, which I think only one machine out there can. So until the firmware fix, just use 7.1 analog. Which is how I have my Panny 10A set up anyways. And that sounds awsome. Here goes nothing....I'm gonna open my new player now.

[sotie]

Originally Posted by jeffreybehr

Tims2senses, what I KNOW about my 5000's audio feeds is that I use the 6-channel-analog outputs, I always manually select the highest-res audio track, and sound appears in all 6 channels of my system. So there's certainly a conflict between my experience and the source you quoted. Be very careful to read all the context of these kinds of statements; I understand the problem exists with the DIGITAL audio outputs and not the analog outputs.

I'm assuming you're referring to TrueHD but what about DTS-HD HR and DTS-HD MA?

Also, does anyone know how to tell on the receiver if it's receiving a properly decoded signal via analog from the player? What I'm asking is this: if you're decoding TrueHD with the 5000 and outputting via analog how can you tell if the receiver isn't just downsampling to Dolby Digital instead of receiving TrueHD?