I also have the drive noises unpleasant noticed (some slightly high frequency Laufwerksgeräuche) but still borderline so that I will keep the player. Compared to my "old" Samsung (BDP-1500; which I changed for USB connection and network access) is the image slightly blurrier or "blurred". However, this falls to only in direct comparison, which please do not misunderstand: The image is "good", but not "very good" if I were to put it in school grades. Furthermore, I noticed that the USB port without additional power supply breaks partially unfortunately at 2.5 inch hard drives and with an "overload" message off. Ie it provides to the USB socket for 2.5 inch hard drives do not have enough power. (Occurring in two 500GB 2.5 inch hard drives cheap suppliers Cn memory or Zinc). Therefore, I can "only" awarded 4 stars. Everything else is class, such as a good menu prompts, sogut plays like all formats (MKV, XVID, DIVX, AVCHD, BDR, ...), comes with "normal" burned data-BR cope, makes the AV Customize Sync, zoom, low power consumption (10 W operation,