BD-UP5000 Universal Player Samsung [OFFICIAL OWNERS THREAD] & FAQ - Page 407

I think it depends on the store. My store told me they would still be for sale this week, but there really is not that much left that I don't already own or would even consider for a buck.

And I thought I had gone crazy. I picked up another eight between Saturday night and Sunday. I did not bother stopping by yesterday and probably should have. There are several I should have waited on, but I was surprised what sold out soon and what did not. If they marked them down to a buck, I'm sure the last few I might want are gone now. They were all ones I have already rented or haven't got around to yet and I avoided the ones that are in redbox, except for a few I wanted to own. So I think I got 22, including 2 somewhat rare ones that I am selling. I've had to place 2 orders for bd cases due to this. I hate the DVD style ones that bb puts their movies in. I'm also glad I did not pick up more to sell, there is sure to be a flood of these on the various online outlets due to this.

I think I actually rented witch mountain at some point and not worried about playability of older Disney titles, that was never a problem until recently and still is not with 1.4. The others you mention load and play fine, however you may or may not have audio drops in 60 fps, in 24 fps you should not. The menu (motion)/graphic/video may not load and the only issue I am aware of with Sherlock is some frame skipping which occurs at both 24 and 60 fps if I remember right. I have rented the other two and have owned Sherlock for some time now.

You can save yourself some time on playability by searching my posts, I have been pretty good about reporting good and bad discs over the past year or so.

Anyhow, sounds like you did very well. Had I not been buying movies I liked at what I thought were low prices over the past couple years I could have picked up another couple dozen or more. Kinda bothers me that prices are so low now, but that is what happens. I was shocked at how many even on Sunday were only $3 that not too long ago I paid 8-10 or a tad more for. I rarely pay more that $10 for a movie anyhow, the exceptions being favorite movies or what I call library releases that are tough to find for a decent price anyhow. Even imports I don't spy more than $15 or so with shipping. There were probably 10 that I have purchased at bb for $7, that used to be their bargain basement lowest price for rentals.

Yeah, there were a bunch more that I already had bought at semi-regular prices... but I don't feel bad about that. I just feel good about the deals I did find.

I wasn't expecting to buy so many at $0.99... thinking they would be mostly gone... so I got the ones I really wanted in the days earlier and thought that might be it... but it was worth the Monday trip for me.

I got one movie (Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow) that I already owned on HD-DVD... for a buck it was worth doing that and then not having to worry about that movie if I ever lose HD playback.

I also got Bulletproof Monk that I already owned on DVD and while I liked it, wasn't willing to pay full price to upgrade to Blu.

Most of the rest were marginal movies that I wasn't sure were worth more than a rental... but for a buck I might as well buy instead of rent! Worst case scenario is if I don't like them, I can trade them in at a used store and get my money back towards something else.

I ran through all my empty Blu cases... technically not empty, though, because I had picked up a bunch of Hancock preview Blus for a penny at Best Buy a couple of years ago in preparation for the day I would need them.

I just didn't expect to blow through all those and need more. I need at least 20 more, and am shopping around for some replacement empty cases because I don't want to leave them in the Blockbuster cases either.

Based on your posts (old and this one) I probably won't have any issues except with the known ones for Sherlock... but IF I have any issues, I'll be sure and post and also report.

I stopped by on my way home from work and picked up 8 more for a clam each. The one that I went back for, Resident Evil:Afterlife, was all sold out. I thought for sure that one would be there but not a big deal since it is in the RedBox and I can get it for .50+tax after using a code. All the others and more I wanted, but passed on at $3 were there. Got some good B movies on BD, will be fun for some laughs. I'm glad I got the others before, since all of those movies were sold out, apparently I chose wisely. I felt stupid buying the Twilight movies for $3, but apparently as soon as they went to .99 they walked out the door with happy new owners.

Several of these are movies that I have seen, but for one reason or another not on BD, mostly OnDemand cable in HD and .MKV downloads or BD rips and in a few cases just on DVD. I loaded up all the ones that have not been in my player before and all were fine. Several Disney's I haven't tried since I know they will work. I was concerned with the smaller studio discs, but I have never had issues with all the B movies on smaller studios I have rented in the past.

When I get a chance I will post all the movies from this batch I have loaded up and played for a min. I did run into one odd thing; The Men Who Stare at Goats which is a Star/Anchor Bay release stated on the back cover that it has a PCM 5.1 track. I thought that was odd since they are usually DDTHD. Sure enough, when I loaded it up it was DDTHD 5.1 and not LPCM. That one may or may not have some audio drop issues. I don't recall if I rented that one on BD before or watched the .MKV. I'm pretty sure it was the MKV, but I vaguely remember renting the BD from BB?

I also picked up Men Who Stare at Goats... I'll have to remember to note that about the audio when I get around to watching it.

You didn't happen to see "Red" or "Reign of Fire" or "Finding Neverland" or "Dogma"? Those were ones I really wanted to find, but nobody here had those. I also would have picked up "Piranha" if I needed a fifth or if it was a buck if I'd seen a copy.

I thought the sale had ended yesterday, but also had pretty much cleaned out my local stores of the ones I wanted (except the ones I couldn't find)..

FYI, here's what I picked up:

Wow, well, it turns out one of the local stores had such a $1 sale but of course was for only yesterday (I asked the BB I visited by bike to check the other one in my town for a $1 sale and I overheard something about them having sold out yesterday). I ended up getting 5 for $20 today from the other store since I hadn't even known about the sale until the last few days. I picked up: Australia, Changeling, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Lady In The Water and Indiana Jones (the most recent with Laboof, lol; have yet to see).

Now I'm seeing there was a $2.99 sale? Looks like I got the raw end of the deal.

It all depended on your area and individual store. All of them had any 9.99 or lower marked movies 5/20. A few stores got shipments of stock that did not sell else ware in individual stores, at store closings and in some cases entire stock of stores were shipped around from more economically depressed areas to ones that are known to be good for used DVD/bd sales. I'm pretty sure this is a move to drastically reduce inventory before dish takes over the business? Also the 5/20 sale continues on and I'm betting we see some more sales like this through the summer. I kinda lucked out on both sales. I had heard and read some rumblings about sales, but haven't been visiting since my online/mail account is on hold (and will remain that way for quite some time since almost every movie in my queue I care about right now I just bought, already own, or will be coming out at redbox. I visited a few stores to see if I could purchase a used copy or possibly rent the secret life of bees to verify the recent problem playability report and it reminded me I wanted to see it again. Anyhow turns out they don't stock it in any stores and all used outlets that I visited were out of it, except for new, that was too expensive for me. Apparently it is a very popular movie on bd for some reason. So anyhow when looking I ran into the 5/20, decided to check out the store closer to home and wham they had this giant table filled to the brim with good stuff at first 5/20 then 4 each then 3 then .99 starting yesterday. I never did find the movie I was looking for, but now have 31 new movies I never planned on owning in the first place.

I did not see any of those. I own all of them but red. Btw you would not want the single disc red, you need the. Deluxe version, the movie only does not have a lossless audio track. The movie sucks without it. Interesting that you only duplicated 4 movies that I bought; dolans, men who..., sky high and tell-tale. All those I got for a buck, except for sky High that I paid $4. You have an interesting list, I will post mine tomorrow, if I can remember them all, when I am on a break at work. There are a bunch on your list I don't remember seeing, but many that were there. The first store downtown I visited had piranha and my local one had like 10 copies at one point and still had at least one when I was there today, but I forgot to grab it. I think it was the remake and not the original? I liked the original better anyhow, except for one scene near the middle in the new one, or maybe it was near the first. Anyhow if you are a red blooded male, you will know what I am talking about.

I'm sure I could have found more at other stores, but did not want to run around, even though my car gets 60+mpg (original Honda insight). I was down south at a town about 50 miles away from home and almost visited a large bb store there, but resisted the temptation until I was near home, since I wanted to beat the traffic.

Speaking of dolans cadillac, that was the one I decided to watch tonight after loading up a few. I remember liking the Stephen king story it is based on. It's good for a laugh or two. Be glad you only paid a buck for it. I'm sure I will feel the same about night train, released by the same b-movie studio. It's sad about Stephen king adaptations. With very few exceptions; the shining, stand by me, shawshank and green mile they have been pretty horrid movies, pun intended. actually the shining was a good movie, but not because it followed the book that well. The other 3 are faithful to the original stories.

I used to be big into Stephen King, but have been out of the loop a while... so I hadn't even heard of Dolan's Cadillac... and only picked it up because it was an adaptation.

They are hit or miss... but I've liked some others too: Misery, Doloris Claibourne (or however that was spelled), Salem's Lot, Apt Pupil, Silver Bullet... The Night Flyer has its moments also... and I'm probably forgetting a bunch of others.

I figure for 99 cents it would be hard to hate any movie too much. Admittedly I did make a lot of blind buys at the dollar sale.

Oh, and I do know about the different versions of Red... but I wasn't sure what Blockbuster got for a rental... if they got the single disc OR just the first disc of the 2-disc set like they did for some other movies like Star Trek, for example.

IF they got the single-disc, then I don't feel bad about missing that one because I would definitely want the high def audio.

I forgot 3 others I bought... so I edited the list I posted earlier...

Lost Boys
A Scanner Darkly
Scott Pilgrim vs the World

I think I also forgot one more movie that my father got... but I still don't remember that.

I have the BD-UP5000 download page bookmarked, and it opened fine for me. Rest assured, there's no new firmware yet.

I was about to post that myself...

It was gone for several days last week... and I stopped checking... but I noticed last night the support page was back up again. So maybe all that was just a glitch and not them trying to archive us after all!

Of course no new firmware... but at least the page is back.

The direct download page has always worked; http://www.samsung.com/us/support/do.../BD-UP5000/XAA
It was the entry owners support link that was broke (along with a bunch of other players entry pages); http://www.samsung.com/us/support/ow...BD-UP5000/XAA?

I have learned a trick so my bot will work. Use this link and it goes right to the firmware, rather than the one with the link for manuals/firmware (that defaults to manuals); http://www.samsung.com/us/support/do.../BD-UP5000/XAc
I have found that setting any or all of the last 3 letters to lowercase forces it to firmware only. That does not seem to work with /XAa for example and I am unsure if that direct link will get updated, if and when new firmware releases. I have a bot only checking once a day, but am going to start one that checks ever hour or so on another service. My old bot was useless since I was checking the main entry support page for the 5K and content changes on it constantly. Also I don't understand the difference between the /XAA and /XAC they are different region/country versions, but to my knowledge only a NA unit was produced and they all use the same firmware? All of mine are /XAA afaIK.

Yup, just checked, working for me again also. I wonder if my E-mails and chats last Friday did any good. I did get a E-mail back from them letting me know that they were aware of the issue and working on it. No idea why it took 10 days or so to resolve.

I hope no one is bothered by all these posts about recent fire sale buys of BDs. At least it is related, since we are verifying playability. I guess it will give folks something to read while we all pine away for a new firmware release ;-) Anyhow, here goes my list, in order of the groups of 5 separate buys I made Friday-Tuesday (2 trips on Saturday);

Ya, they were ok. There is so much SK material, that there are bound to be a few duds. Anyhow I checked the Red at BB some time ago since I was chapped when I rented it from RB they only had the movie only version in DD5.1. The version they carry at my store (I have not checked online/mail) is the movie only non-lossless soundtrack version. One of these days I will buy the deluxe, or they may re-release it in the lossless movie only. Why they did that we will never know. Perhaps they ran out of space. IMOHO in this day in age, it is a crime to release a movie on BD without a lossless track. I can understand the older 640K bps DD5.1 BD releases back in '06-'07 when things were getting started since players that could bitstream or internal decode and AVRs that could deal with it were not very common. But still then they should have all had LPCM in addition. It even took HD a while to get out if the DD+ mode and step up to DDTHD.

Just for fun I have added a + next to yours that I saw as well and a - if I own it. Interesting that there are only 3 that I also saw and already owned (Gran Torino, Star Trek and District 9). The one I saw that I already own that pissed me off the most was Kick-Ass. I worked long and hard to find that one for a decent price and I could have had it for either $4 or possibly $3 at this sale. I only saw one copy, but still. Most likely there are others on your list that I saw, but subconsciously ignored them since I already owned them, or simply was not interested. Sherlock... falls into that category. And I think I might have seen a She's out... and if I did I should have picked it up since I liked that flick and I should have also picked up Youth in Revolt, but I don't recall seeing it yesterday.

Some more loaders have been posted on eBay. I know the guy and he seems reputable, however I have never sourced a loader from him, or even know if he lurks here. I would think if he did he would post the info himself. They are a tad pricey, but I know that he has been using them in 5Ks and as drives in computers, so I think he knows what he is doing. I'm tempted, but maybe not for $75, even with free shipping.

http://cgi.ebay.com/SAMSUNG-AK97-020...8#ht_500wt_910

I figure there's not that much activity in this thread except for verifying playback, so sharing big lists like this might be of value if others know that we have a bunch of movies to test that may or may not have been tested with the latest firmware.

But I erred on the side of caution and spoilered the list (as you did also) so people could skip it if they wanted

Your list is quite different than mine. In fact, aside from the ones that we both bought the same, I don't even remember seeing most of what you listed.

I already had Race to Witch Mountain. I think I saw a couple others like Time Traveler's Wife (had just recently watched that on satellite) and Easy A.

I have the Godfather trilogy and Chicken Little, but haven't watched those since buying them a while back.

I would have bought Social Network had I seen it.

One movie I wanted, but didn't buy... was Ghandi. Only one store had it and it was part of the 5-for-$20... but they didn't have any other movies I wanted... so I had to pass.

Oh come on, you could have just paid full price for ghandi, boring movie anyhow imoho. Do you want to buy my spare social network for $10? ;-) i have to get at least $5 for it to break even.

The problem with Ghandi... is that I already own the DVD. It was worth an upgrade for 99-cents OR maybe if I had found 4 other movies I really wanted... but otherwise the DVD copy is fine. It's not like this is Ghandi in space with F/X that would pop in HD

I had passed on Social Network when it was around $16... I figured it would be worth the blind buy at a buck... and similar to Ghandi, tempted at the 5-for-$20 if I had found other movies I wanted.

Oh, and on a random on-topic note...

I recently watched The Invention of Lying, 30 Days of Night, and 30 Days of Night: Dark Days... + all 3 of the Scream movies without any issues.

I would have liked to find; A.I., Winters Bone, Legend, Butterfly Effect, The Green Mile and Seven Samurai. They don't stock those in the stores and many if not all by mail so that is why I did not see them ever. Those are some movies of the to pf my head I have been looking for deals on. Legend was just released on BD, saw it on a list the other day and in person at Wallymart this morning. That leaves only two of my all-time favorite movies yet to release on any HD format and three that I'm waiting for in an optical disc HD format; The Razors Edge (Bill Murray version, not the original), Fandango (Kevin Costner's debut staring role much underrated movie) and The Family Man (which I have 2 open and one sealed D-VHS of). All of my other all time favorites have been released, most of them in BD now, but still a few that are on HD or D-VHS only. Phantasm might be fun on BD, not sure if that one has been released in HD yet. I have it on DVD. Oh and I forgot The Keep with Scott Glenn, but they never released that on DVD anyhow, I have had to suffice with a rip of the Laserdisc to DVD on that one.

Well, I will have my extra SN up on half.com probably by the weekend, now that my order of cases is home and complete. I need more Vortex (Sony/Disney) singles, but they are way more expensive that the generic Viva Elite like ones I have been buying with BD logo for re-sale on semi-decent titles and the ones without for ones I am keeping. I make sure I put all of my expensive moves I am selling in new licensed official exact cases that the studios ship them in in the first place (or at least try to if the case they have is marginal).

That's good... I would do the same thing if I had extras of anything to sell.

I actually got some cases today and spent some time swapping everything over... now I have a problem with shelf space to put everything!

But I also feel more like watching some now that I have everything in Blu cases finally.

OldVideophile, this one is just for you:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...d_i=2247538011

You are way ahead of me. I'm currently shopping for full wall high capacity media storage and a new TV/component stand. I'm cheep when it comes to furniture (and everything else) so it's going to be a challenge. Most of my HD collection and DVD collection are tucked away nicely, but the bulk of my BD collection is sitting around in various stacks that are starting to bother the boss. Seems it isn't Feng Shui enough ;-)

I really need to stop buying movies. I just ordered Legend and Brazil from Amazon using the $8 off for buying 2 link on hidefdigest.com, which of course did not go through right, but I got a CSR to credit my account the $8. After this I need to severely curtail my purchasing of movies until I can start getting through at least all the movies I have never seen that I have bought for great deals. Is there a mediaholics anonymous I can join :-D

Please people--I think everyone has gone away from the purpose of this site---Want to gossip, start a new subject-------
Everyday I come looking for a solution for movies that won't play, etc. maybe a new firmware(?) I can't believe the last few days????
Everytime I see a lot of activity on this site, I'm thinking a new firmware to correct all the problems-but it's bargain prices, furniture etc. I guess the useful help is long gone---thanks for the past help but I give up on Samsung and this site

You do know this is not a Samsung site, right?

We can't do much besides poke at Samsung every once in a while via email or over the phone. They don't seem to be in much of a hurry to fix the problems some of us have been reporting...so we have little else to talk about lately.

Meanwhile... on a related note...

I played "9" and the UK import of "The Island" over the last couple of nights and both were fine. I wasn't sure if anyone in here had the import movie, so figured it was most worth mentioning.

I just finished watching Lolita which played without problem.