Pulled Trigger on Sammy BDP2550
Pulled the trigger on a Sammy 2550 from best buy. I found a 10% coupon on line, and they were $349 on sale..........so with tax it was about $340 out the door.
The set up was painless. I am running analog 5.1 outs through an old lexicon prepro, and a blue jeans hdmi straight to a panny plasma @ 720. A neighbor lent me the Transformers movie. The first thing I noticed was.........BOY ARE THE TWO LEAD CHICKS HOT! Smiles. After that, I noticed the stunning PQ. To me, it was a slam dunk. I kept foucusing on the pores in the actors skin............really, I don't get that in my average dvds. And no, no dbt or getting the same disc to compare. The audio sounded better too, but it may have been a louder mix...........
I also know it doesn't internally decode DTSHDMA or one of the codecs.......I'll survive. I do have the ethernet cable hooked up but haven't ran the firmware updates for Pandora and Netflix. It will be interesting. Thanks for your input Allargon, it was helpful.