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Samsung BD-UP5000

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4/4/08 at 3:48pm
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I currently have a Toshiba HD-A2 and a Yamaha RX-V661 which lets me apply PLIIx to TrueHD sent by MPCM through the HD-A2 DVD player so that I can have 7.1. Recently my HD-A2 froze at the welcome screen and it's out of warranty so I'm stuck with a broken HD-DVD player.

I was looking at the Samsung BD-UP5000 because I also need a Blu-ray player too.

However, I don't need to buy a receiver that can decode TrueHD and DTS-HD/MA since I just bought the Yamaha V661. So I don't really need a Blue-ray player that sends bitstream. Will the BD-UP5000 player do the same job as the Toshiba HD-A2 can do and produce the multichannel PCM internally and transfers it to the receiver over HDMI in both HD formats?
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4/4/08 at 7:54pm

Re: Samsung BD-UP5000

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Originally Posted by MDBLakers
I currently have a Toshiba HD-A2 and a Yamaha RX-V661 which lets me apply PLIIx to TrueHD sent by MPCM through the HD-A2 DVD player so that I can have 7.1. Recently my HD-A2 froze at the welcome screen and it's out of warranty so I'm stuck with a broken HD-DVD player.

I was looking at the Samsung BD-UP5000 because I also need a Blu-ray player too.

However, I don't need to buy a receiver that can decode TrueHD and DTS-HD/MA since I just bought the Yamaha V661. So I don't really need a Blue-ray player that sends bitstream. Will the BD-UP5000 player do the same job as the Toshiba HD-A2 can do and produce the multichannel PCM internally and transfers it to the receiver over HDMI in both HD formats?

You may want to jump into 'this' discussion to find your answers. Basically, 'yes' and having 7.1 analog outputs on this player is certainly an advantage for some us (the only duo player that does, presently).

But there are problems with specific codecs, and also with the fact it does not offer bass management (not even settings for speaker distances). A firmware update due by May is supposed to fix some of these issues.
We shall see.
As it stands, I use a re-encode mode for some movies which takes the Dolby multichannel sound track and put it out in DTS. You can still get 5.1 this way even digitally. Lossy, but it's better than TrueHD in only 2 channel (which the update is targeted at fixing).

You can read on here.. http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...bd-up5000.html
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