Panasonic or Samsung 3D Blu-ray? (1 Viewer)

I was recommended Panasonic almost two years ago, and except for the fact it has basically died(it won't play Blu-rays anymore), I have been mostly happy with it. Imreally don't want to go hi-end like Oppo right now because UHD blu-ray will be coming soon. I've seen some newer Panasonics get a lot of bad reviews at Amazon but mostly for them crashing and having to be restarted which I have experienced on mine. Compared to movies freezing up for no apparent reason as on my first player, a Sony, this is a walk in the park. I bought a Samsung from best buy because they had no Panasonic in the same price range, but I'm not sure if I want to keep it. Plus I can get a Panny that upconverts to UHD for about the same price. So I was wondering are the new Pannys really worse than the bdt230? And how is Samsung? I have a bd-j5900.

I should add, my main priority is playing Blu-rays without a hitch. It irritates me to no end having disks be glitchy only on my player.