Samsung DVD-HD941 Up-Converting DVD Player
Good, but lacking
The HD941 has a brilliant picture when upconverting, but has a problem with HDMI audio. I've got it hooked up to a Samsung DLP (HL-R4557W) HDTV and although the picture is about as good as you can possibly get, audio through the HDMI cable is nonexistant. \\"HDMI audio not supported\\" flashes on the screen when trying to play a DVD using digital audio. PCM audio works fine, but that's a waste since 5.1 is the only way to listen to audio. The firmware upgrade didn't work for me and Samsung support was a joke. After contacting them four times and getting four answers with no fixes, I gave up. I run the optical output on the DVD player into my amplifier and that works fine. I shouldn't have to, but that's just the way it is.