Lotsa burger-flippers in this thread crying about this being a commercial. If so don't read it FFS!

Was it really that hard to figure out?

Samsung has quite the shill network prowling amazon comment threads and the various high-profile audio-video forums. Go ahead, go to these places and complain (legitimately) about a Samsung product you've bought and watch the attackers abuse you.

I have a Sammy DLP I bought 6 years ago and it's still awesome, but the QAM tuner and Bluray player I've bought in the last year are utter garbage. I voiced my opinions on these legitimate issues and end up getting attacked by people questioning my IQ and motives. Oddly, I noticed a pattern in the writing style of several of the many posts attacking my opinions and mentioned it in the same threads. These attacker mysteriously disappeared without ever saying another word.

Sounds like fodder for a nice story by one of the technology sites out there...

Samsung has quite the shill network prowling amazon comment threads and the various high-profile audio-video forums. Go ahead, go to these places and complain (legitimately) about a Samsung product you've bought and watch the attackers abuse you.

I have a Sammy DLP I bought 6 years ago and it's still awesome, but the QAM tuner and Bluray player I've bought in the last year are utter garbage. I voiced my opinions on these legitimate issues and end up getting attacked by people questioning my IQ and motives. Oddly, I noticed a pattern in the writing style of several of the many posts attacking my opinions and mentioned it in the same threads. These attacker mysteriously disappeared without ever saying another word.

Sounds like fodder for a nice story by one of the technology sites out there...

And this:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/07/17/190232.shtml?tid=126

http://www.directvdefense.org/

Meant to post that link in my original post.

Anything DirectTV accuses anyone of should be taken with a grain of salt.

7 or 8 years ago they sued many engineers in north America who had a smart card programming device, assuming they were making pirate cards for their receiver hardware. They are no better than the RIAA or the like, suing thousands in the hopes that hundreds will choose to settle instead of protracted legal proceedings. People should give companies with this type of business model the finger and open their wallet elsewhere.

It's for this very reason I have passed and stuck with my pitiful cable company.

Also, the reason I entered this thread before I got sidetracked, what's the deal with the excitement over touchscreens? FFS who wants fingerprints all over their beautiful TV?

Not to mention the sanitation aspect.

Regarding PlayOn Media Server mentioned earlier in this thread, and all add-on media servers that charge money for that matter, how do these services expect to survive when people will have ever-expanding possibilities with Win7 Media Center?

I googled this product because the Hulu part sounds interesting but at $40 USD why should I? You can bet your @ss there will be something that integrates into WMC sooner or later that is free.

I play MP4s on my Win7 RC1 extender(s) just fine. I can watch MKV also. I use either the built in Win7 Media Center or PS3 Media Server (works a treat with the xbox). I agree though, I was very disgruntled until I could do these, which was very recent.

Downloads what in 6 seconds?