Originally Posted by marcallo

So I went to Bestbuy tonight and got the Panasonic BD-35 for 199.99. A better deal you could not get. I got it home, hooked it up and popped in Hell Boy II - the Golden Army. Man what an amazing difference immediately.

My reciever only has 5.1 hooked up to it so it instantly went to DTS and it sounded awesome. The Samsung 46A650 worked flawlessly with the 1080P and everything is great. I haven't installed any firmware for it yet but I'll get around to it when I need to.


Now for a comment.

I needed an HDMI cable so I picked up a 3' cable for 20 bucks in a blue package, gold plated, blah blah blah. The guy tried to sell me a cable that cost nearly as much as the player.

He proceeded to physically ARGUE with me that monster is superior product and that I'm costing myself precious megabytes in communication speed. I attempted to explain to him what I learned here about digital working or not working and drop offs but he wasn't having it.

I finally said to him "they teach you all that about monster here right?" and he said "Yeah" I said "DiD they also teach you their markup on monster is something like 100%?" he said "have a good day sir and good luck with everything."


I couldn't believe the ferver that a non commissioned salesman was putting up for a product he obviously didn't understand.

He even told me "It's his job to educate the customers" I wanted to say "How can you educate me on what you clearly don't know."