Funai's Players now at walmart - sub 300 dollars...

[Sbert]

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Blu-ray-...news-1349.html

For all those who were wondering where funai was, here funai is...

[Teh Purple Avenger8or]

Imagine there is a company that make worse players than Samsung.

[bt12483]

Originally Posted by Teh Purple Avenger8or

Imagine there is a company that make worse players than Samsung.

Proof? Do you have a 1st hand comparison...or are you just making assumptions?

[Teh Purple Avenger8or]

Originally Posted by bt12483

Proof? Do you have a 1st hand comparison...or are you just making assumptions?

You may not believe this, but Funai has made things other than BD players, and every Funai branded thing I have ever dealt with was complete crap. You, my little stalker, may continue to believe that they are great, however.

[goatmother]

Originally Posted by Teh Purple Avenger8or
Imagine there is a company that make worse players than Samsung.

Samsungs are pretty bad but my HD-A3 is pretty crappy as well.

[Teh Purple Avenger8or]

Originally Posted by goatmother

Samsungs are pretty bad but my HD-A3 is pretty crappy as well.

I had 3 different HDDVD players and they all were damn good. Plus, I have had no serious issues with any that I have installed minus a bad firmware update or two. They have no where near the service issues that the Samsungs have had.

[goatmother]

Originally Posted by Teh Purple Avenger8or

I had 3 different HDDVD players and they all were damn good. Plus, I have had no serious issues with any that I have installed minus a bad firmware update or two. They have no where near the service issues that the Samsungs have had.

For your personal experience sure. Reading plenty of posts here and AVS I don't come to the same conclusion.

[vinnie97]

The BD-UP5000 is on the brink of greatness...amazing PQ with a few disc incompatibilities and crippled sound output for now (that nothing a firmware can't fix).

[bt12483]

Originally Posted by Teh Purple Avenger8or

I had 3 different HDDVD players and they all were damn good. Plus, I have had no serious issues with any that I have installed minus a bad firmware update or two. They have no where near the service issues that the Samsungs have had.

which 3 HD DVD players, and which Samsungs?

[ack_bak]

Originally Posted by goatmother

For your personal experience sure. Reading plenty of posts here and AVS I don't come to the same conclusion.

I have owned two different HD DVD players and two different BD players. The 360 add-on was by far the worst of all the players I have owned, and the A2 is about equal to the Samsung BDP-1000 with regards to playback issues. The PS3 has been the best yet. Not one single issue to date. That is why I recommend it to people.

[ack_bak]

Originally Posted by Teh Purple Avenger8or

You may not believe this, but Funai has made things other than BD players, and every Funai branded thing I have ever dealt with was complete crap. You, my little stalker, may continue to believe that they are great, however.

I had a Funai branded VCR that was rock solid. The thing still works (well, I have not tried it in about 4 years).

That said, I would most likely recommend the Phillips player that is only about $40 more than the $298 Funai players. Of course if Wal-mart has $199 Maganvox BD players this holiday season, I may have to pick one up for the upstairs assuming they get decent reviews. All of these players are SOC based and will most likely have similar picture, audio, etc.

[goatmother]

Originally Posted by ack_bak

I have owned two different HD DVD players and two different BD players. The 360 add-on was by far the worst of all the players I have owned, and the A2 is about equal to the Samsung BDP-1000 with regards to playback issues. The PS3 has been the best yet. Not one single issue to date. That is why I recommend it to people.

Yup and the add-on is by Toshiba as well.

My HD-A3's audio is permantly crippled as well but not nearly as crippled as the 360/add-on combo.

[JackBauer24]

Does this thing have an ethernet port?

[Badger3920]

Originally Posted by Teh Purple Avenger8or

Imagine there is a company that make worse players than Samsung.

Originally Posted by goatmother

Samsungs are pretty bad but my HD-A3 is pretty crappy as well.

The funny thing, is that I bought my bd-p1400 in mid-december. I've done all firmware upgrades, and never ONCE have I had any issue at all with it.

Not only that, but my player was one of the first, and remains one of the few, 1.0 players to bitstream dts-hdma. It also has an ethernet port for upgrades, unlike most others.

It also cost me $275.

But yep, pretty terrible... I'm guessing that the horrendous problems some people had must have been with the bd-p1000 or p1200

[Philnerd]

I wonder how good Funai will be with firmware updates to handle BD+ updates...