I'm strongly looking at buying one of these, but I found something that I may have trouble accepting...I found this in the manual off of Samsung's website.

Discs that cannot be played
Blu-ray Discs with a region code other than "Region A".
BD-R, BD-RE
DVD-Video with a region number other than “1” or “ALL”
HD DVD-R
DVD-RAM
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3.9 GB DVD-R Disc for Authoring.
DVD-RW(VR mode)
DVD-ROM/PD/MV-Disc, etc
CVD/CD-ROM/CD-RW/CDV/CD-G/CD-I/LD
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[Note]
Some commercial discs and HD DVD/ DVD discs purchased outside your region may not be playable
with this product. When these discs are played, either “No disc.” or “Please check the regional code
of the disc.” will be displayed.
If a DVD-R/-RW disc has not been recorded properly in DVD video format, it will not be playable.
The unit cannot play CD-R and DVD-RW/-R recorded content such as divx, avi, mpg, mov, wma,

The part that seems to trouble me is that it says you can't play HD-DVD-R and BD-R media.....we'll what's the point as a player. I don't know about anyone else, but My plans were to burn some of my home HD movies onto this media so that I could enjoy home movies in HD as well.

Anyone see a firmware update on this in the future?

Anyone see a firmware update on this in the future?

Yes.