Keep the blu-ray player or return it?

[Atty]

I was at Best Buy the other day, picking up movies for presents and what-not, and came across a Samsung Blu-Ray (BD-p1600?) for $150 and it claimed to play .mkv/.avi/etc off a flash drive and so I bought it. Got it home and found out it was incapable of even seeing the simplest of movie files off a flash drive, despite numerous firmware updates, and there are hundreds of people crying over the same thing.

So my question is: Do I return it? Or keep it? Do you all think players will come down in price in the mean time? Or is there a better player out there for the same price that will play .mkv or any other media file?

It just kind of seems useless to me now since it won't do what I really wanted it to and out of 4 TV's (3HD) in our house only one will have the player so we'd still have to buy DVDs and then Blu-Ray too. :-\

Plus I could use that money for a Moto Droid...hmmm

 

[Fallengod]

Ive heard samsung's have some quality control issues as well. Ive stayed away from those.

Theres a panasonic BD60k that was just on sale for $120 last week, unfortunately that ended yesterday.

That player would be a better buy imo. In terms of playing media files, I dont know what files the Panasonic plays. Some review sites say it plays divx/xvid and such, but others say it doesnt so I dont know. I dont know anything about .mkv either.

The samsung wouldnt be my choice. There are however, probably few good choices that fit in the $150 range. I wonder what the Sony's play.

 

[s44]

Return it. You can get a better player for $100-125.

 

[manimal]

If you want to play those formats then get a LG390-best player on the market imo...

 

[Fallengod]

Ya but that isnt close to $100-$150 heh.

 

[blackangst1]

Ive heard samsung's have some quality control issues as well. Ive stayed away from those.

Theres a panasonic BD60k that was just on sale for $120 last week, unfortunately that ended yesterday.

That player would be a better buy imo. In terms of playing media files, I dont know what files the Panasonic plays. Some review sites say it plays divx/xvid and such, but others say it doesnt so I dont know. I dont know anything about .mkv either.

The samsung wouldnt be my choice. There are however, probably few good choices that fit in the $150 range. I wonder what the Sony's play.

(.mkv = Blu Ray )

 

[Fallengod]

Oh....

As in, downloaded rips. ok.. Did not know that.