My vote would be to go for a Panasonic. The Denon's are mighty expensive and the $1200 uses some of the same electronics as the Panasonic BD30 which is half that price. Stay away from Samsung. They're currently being sued.

The Panasonic BD30 is a great machine. It's profile 1.1. The new BD50 will be profile 2.0, but will probably cost more. If on-line content is important to you, wait for the BD50. If not, then the profile 1.1 machine will be just fine.

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