All good points. For me, however, my projector is component only, so upscaling dvds isn't high on my list. For $98, I was more than surprised by the fantastic image on my 92 in. screen. So paying another $800 for a combo player just didn't make sense to me, when I can get a decent Blu-ray player...
I'm going to cancel my pre-order. Samsung almost had me, but I picked up the $98 Toshiba A2 at Wal-Mart yesterday, and when I pick up the new Panny DMP-BD30 for under $500, I'm well below the Sammy (even with a good deal). The Sammy may very well be a good player, but they really need to look...
I think he mentioned in the AVSForum that a Samsung sales rep was the source. All the info we've been getting doesn't add up...stuff coming out of the factory in October for a December deliver date, now a delay to Q1. Weird...
Similar price and rebate over at PC/Mac Mall. Never ordered from Onsale and have been very pleased with PC/Mac Mall, so I have a pre-order there. Still trying to get definitive word of a release date from Samsung, but I've started to hear mid-Nov. These are not horse's mouth sources, so until I...