I purchased this unit A month and a week ago, And She's solid as a ROCK! This is a very good player, I ordered from Overstock it came like in two days I was shocked! She has good features. Now I never owned a Blu Ray player B4 but the only thing i had to compare it 2 was my Toshiba HD DVD player And Scientific Atlantic HD 8300 cable Well it whips cable and basically ties w/the HD DVD player as far as pic and sound is concerned. Now this unit is not BD live ready but can be with a an firmware upgrade and Ur BD live disc won't play unless U put a flash drive in the back of the unit I stuck a cheap 8GB which was way to much memory now I have a 4GB in which is still too much. So w/the flash drive in my BD live disc worked perfectly Oh like Iron Man would not play until I put the flash Drive in But would work once I deactivated the the BD live feature, But playing Traitor would play But not the BD Live features But w/@ least 1GB flash it will be solid, U need @ least 1GB to access all features all UR disc will play w/o it, Even the Samsung BD-p2500 takes a flash drive for added storage. UR SD disc will look Great and burned DVDs will look Good. But I highly recommend this player Enjoy! PS. Since I've purchased it I purchased 12 Blu Ray titles so yes I do work her out!