I saw one in the store. It is an ugly POS IMHO. It would be a nice an thin Blu-Ray player if it didn't have that ridiculous stand hard fastened to it on the bottom. I really don't care for a cheap glossy plastic thing angled up at me in my entertainment center. It is pretentious crap design. It takes more space than a regular Blu-Ray player and much more space than a nice thin Blu-Ray player.
Stupid disc player should not even be visible. Who cares to make that ugly garbage visible in their house, I am not accepting advertising for Samsung over here.
No I just come from a school that believes that equipment like that should stay hidden. This thing is the opposite, designed to be flaunted. But it is so ugly and even if you thought it wasn't ugly why would anyone with any sense show off their Blu-Ray player? It goes against basic home theater philosophy where the highlight is the image/the movie. Why would any sensible HT owner put that piece of gloss out into the open where it only distracts from the movie?
It's something designed for show-offs or people who have no sense of purpose in creating their theaters. What matters is what's inside your equipment not the outside ugly glossiness. I tried to have an open mind about it until I saw one at Best Buy and it is just pointless to have something that is so small and thin that is artificially made so big because of that stand. HT equipment is not supposed to draw attention to itself. It is supposed to draw attention to the image it produces.
This is the HT equivalent of putting ugly chrome spinners on your car.
Also that thing is basically 80% air that sits under the player thanks to that stand. The unit itself is 80% cheap glossy plastic. This is not "high-end" despite what its price is telling you. High end is solid metal, preferably aluminum. The thing is artificially bigger because of excess cheap plastic on all edges. The plastic isn't even black - it's translucent red. The epitome of ugly gaudiness.
What Pioneer Elite or Sony XBR owner would even consider this? One would think anyone with an interest in high-end HT to buy such a nice TV would know better than to pair it with this $150 player that now costs $500 due to excess cheap plastic in and around it.
An appropriate pairing with high-end TVs begins with and gets cheaper as it progresses depending on your budget:
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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I saw one in the store. It is an ugly POS IMHO. It would be a nice an thin Blu-Ray player if it didn't have that ridiculous stand hard fastened to it on the bottom. I really don't care for a cheap glossy plastic thing angled up at me in my entertainment center. It is pretentious crap design. It takes more space than a regular Blu-Ray player and much more space than a nice thin Blu-Ray player.
Stupid disc player should not even be visible. Who cares to make that ugly garbage visible in their house, I am not accepting advertising for Samsung over here.
@sr
Did one of these rape you as a child?
You have an unhealthy amount of hatred for this thing.
And just because you find it ugly doesn't mean others find it ugly.
And this is designed to be mounted on a wall, not go into a media center shelf.
No I just come from a school that believes that equipment like that should stay hidden. This thing is the opposite, designed to be flaunted. But it is so ugly and even if you thought it wasn't ugly why would anyone with any sense show off their Blu-Ray player? It goes against basic home theater philosophy where the highlight is the image/the movie. Why would any sensible HT owner put that piece of gloss out into the open where it only distracts from the movie?
It's something designed for show-offs or people who have no sense of purpose in creating their theaters. What matters is what's inside your equipment not the outside ugly glossiness. I tried to have an open mind about it until I saw one at Best Buy and it is just pointless to have something that is so small and thin that is artificially made so big because of that stand. HT equipment is not supposed to draw attention to itself. It is supposed to draw attention to the image it produces.
This is the HT equivalent of putting ugly chrome spinners on your car.
Also that thing is basically 80% air that sits under the player thanks to that stand. The unit itself is 80% cheap glossy plastic. This is not "high-end" despite what its price is telling you. High end is solid metal, preferably aluminum. The thing is artificially bigger because of excess cheap plastic on all edges. The plastic isn't even black - it's translucent red. The epitome of ugly gaudiness.
What Pioneer Elite or Sony XBR owner would even consider this? One would think anyone with an interest in high-end HT to buy such a nice TV would know better than to pair it with this $150 player that now costs $500 due to excess cheap plastic in and around it.
An appropriate pairing with high-end TVs begins with and gets cheaper as it progresses depending on your budget:
BDP-S5000ES
Marantz BD 8002
Denon DVD 3800BDCI
Panasonic DMP-BD10
Pioneer Elite BDP-94HD
Denon DVD-2500BTCI
Samsung BD-P2500
Sharp BD-HP20U
Harman Kardon BDP-1
JVC XV BP1
Not an ugly overpriced slab of air filled plastic POS for show offs who mount an obvious plastic POS on their walls.