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Unlike many others out there, I have not experienced any of the freezing problems. I purchased this about 6 months ago and have never updated the firmware because right out of the box, the player has worked beautifully. I got this to supplement my PS3 as a BluRay player when I quickly realized that my wife would want to watch movies as often as I'd want to play a game. Since I had already spent a chunk of money on the PS3 I didn't want to spend another small fortune on a stand-alone plain BluRay player. So I did some research and this player came up several times. After reading everything I could on it, I decided it fit the bill. It has better than average up-conversion and BluRay playback, has VieraCast for Amazon and Youtube and Netflix (if you're into that), and wouldn't break the bank. Now that I've had it for 6 months, I can say everything I read about the player is true. It performs like a champ and my movies look great. My only complaint is that the player is SLOW. Granted, my experience with BluRay is limited to this player and my PS3. But my PS3 starts up quickly, and seems to load and play my movies pretty snappily. Whereas the Panasonic takes 30 seconds just to start up when I hit the open/close button. Once it powers up and opens and takes my movie, it will be another 30-90 seconds while it loads the movie. It might just be that most BluRay players are like that. I'm only used to PS3, and before that, my DVD players (which were all machine gun fast compared to BluRay). So that's my only complaint. As far as it goes, it does annoy me, but honestly for the quality of the player and the price, I can learn to be patient with it.
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