I received my BD-P1400 on my day off so I was able to set it up and stick in a SD movie within a few minutes. My first thought. Hmmm, the upconverting didn't look as good as my Toshiba D-VR600 ( both using Monster 1000 HDMI cables).Very surprising! Well I run to block buster to rent Live Free Or Die Hard. Well it wouldn't load up the disk.. @#$%!! I had read somewhere else that the firmware had to be upgraded. This is a PITA. I plug in my ethernet cable to the back of the player and start the DL. While I'm waiting I decide to watch satellite TV, I check on it in about 20 minutes and the player has reverted to the blue Samsung screen. I go back through the menu options and I still have the same FW version.. So I go the the process a second time.. samething!! Come to find out after the FW download is complete you have just a few seconds ( I think three) to confirm the DL or it cancels it self. You have to sit there and watch your TV screen and make sure you don't miss the end of the DL. After that it take about 15 minutes to process the DL. This part you can snooze through.

After a hour and a half of two unsuccessful DL and one good one the players still didn't play Die Hard! You have to DL and even newer FW.

SO after downloading two firmware version. It finally played Die Hard but the video jittered about 4 times through the movie. I'll give it another shot with a different movie but if it does the samething I'm going to tie a rope around it and see if it does a better job of anchoring my boat than it does playing movies..