These machines are outselling the other available brands by a wide margins -- and getting good reviews (except for the cheap feel). The price is plummeting (for this and the Philips) and I suspect that both have something new in the wings. But we all know the OPPO is gathering huge interest at a decent pricepoint. So will this Samsung be selling below $100 right after Christmas?
Just to catch up, since I'm fortunate enough to be getting the OPPO, I am returning the Samsung K8500 that I just received. With the right K8500 settings including Movie Frame (24FPs) "Off" and HDMI Color Format "RGB (Enhanced)", along with the A3060 AVR set to Mode1 for HDMI-4K-Mode, plus using the HDMI5 (4K@60Hz) input and Picture Mode "Computer" on my Vizio M55-C2 and with "Certified High Speed" HDMI cables from Monoprice, I am getting a beautiful UHD "HDR-like" image with the UHD disc of Independence Day. So I know things work.On the downside, I have already seen some of the lip sync issues others have reports. Put the player in Pause for a bit, when restarted the audio and video are out of sync -- but not always... Just exit the movie to Menu and restart and things sync up again. (Kinda painful!) I'm not sure, but this may be related to some of the settings as I didn't see it after the above UHD setup. But I also have not had time to fully check it out. Before returning the Samsung (since I will have a wait for the OPPO), I will be doing a complete setup evaluation and will post the results and config info in my personal HT thread in another forum. If there are no objections, I'll provide a pointer here.
Thanks for that tip. I haven't had the issue with anything since, but I've made quite a few tweaks since then. Interesting note tho with the Samsung and the Vizio. It appears that some studios (specifically, Universal with Oblivion handshake at playback time and will not output HDR to the 2015 Vizio M-series (which supposedly does not handle HDR). Got a specific notice on loading the disc. Independence Day (Fox) did not do that and the UHD HDR disc had a decidedly greater luminance range and color gamut than the BR disc. I have Star Trek Beyond yet to watch -- Paramount. This will all be moot when I upgrade the TV, but I hope the OPPO will also let me control that better.
If your TV won't do HDR, you probably aren't getting BT.2020 wide color gamut either. Don't know if your TV can display that or not. If it can, an HD Fury Integral would work in your case.