fatfingers73
Prominent Member
Sorry if this is old news but Richer Sounds are doing the sammy for £599.
According to this thread over on AVS the Samsung is now discontinued, which might explain why the price is tumbling. Apparently can be bought new for as little as $589 now in the US, that's what, £300?
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=766628
Allan
Given its history of problems and lack of support for key audio formats, networking, locked noise reduction etc I guess Samsung is almost prepared to give it away to move some boxes. £599 is still too expensive IMO for this unit and I suspect a replacement G2 is in the wings for Q1.
AVI
I heard that samsung has become so desprate to shift the last few rejects that as from friday you can get one in the usa with a macdonalds happy meal and they get a 2% cut..!!
I heard that samsung has become so desprate to shift the last few rejects that as from friday you can get one in the usa with a macdonalds happy meal and they get a 2% cut..!!
The UK model hasn't had any firmware updates yet...ergo it's already at the 'latest' version. That said the problems that effected the US player were 'fixed' before shipping on the UK model - hence the lack of any updates.What i would like to know is, how do you tell if it has the latest firmware update?
i wonder how much money samsung made on the first batch of BD compared to toshiba
£599, eh?
Hmmm.
That's starting to get into the territory where I'd consider buying it instead of a PS3.
Steve W
you would be better of importing a ps3 the blu-ray playback is far better than the samsung and panasonic
hi, how do you know the ps3 is better?
thanks
The Samsung actually performs equally on PQ and better on LPCM audio IMHO than the Panasonic. Naturally it lacks Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio support - but then so does most of the software at present.The two top performance models to buy today are either:
Panasonic or the Sony.