If you have a Samsung BD-UP5000, life is not all that bad! Yes, your player won’t be seeing many HD-DVDs anymore but you now can upgrade your player to profile 1.1 with the new firmware v1.3 Samsung released. Even though you bought a Combo player compatible with Blu-ray profile 1.0, you can upgrade it to profile 1.1 (BonusView). The firmware was released 2 days ago and it is available!

This is a list of changes you will get with the new firmware:

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1. Upgrades current BD-UP5000 to profile 1.1
2. Upgrades BD-UP5000 with HD audio bit-stream output function.
3. Updates User interface based on BD profile 1.1
4. Improves playback compatibility in some movies

Click here to get the BD-UP5000 v1.3 firmware!

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Popularity: 54% [?]

Samsung BD-UP5000 is a duo HD player, which means it plays both Blu-ray as well as HD-DVD discs. This is a great solution for those who made the mistake of buying the wrong format before the war was over and now are stuck with HD-DVD movies! Not many duo players were released and I am sure pretty soon they will be discontinued. So if you are one of those people stuck with HD-DVD, I would suggest to get moving and buying one (Only if you don’t plan on throwing your defunct discs as Frisbees out of the window of course!). Warning: Make sure you read all the specs thoroughly as this player won’t play BD-E or BD-RE. Also make sure to read more about the player because from my research it needs a firmware update to work properly.

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Compatibility

• Playback Media BD-ROM, HD DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-R
• Playback Formats MPEG2, VC-1, H.264, HD JPEG decoding

Specs

• A/V Quality DVD Upconversion- Selectable DVD upconversion via HQV
• Dolby Dital Decoder
• Dolby Digital Plus Decoder
• DTS HD Decoder
• Dolby True HD Decoder
• HDMI CEC
• 1 Composite Video Output
• 1 Component Video Output
• 1 S-Video Outputs
• HDMI Output 1.3
• 1 Optical Digital Audio Output
• 1 Coaxial Digital Audio Outputs

Popularity: 13% [?]