The news for all you Samsung BD player owners isn’t as bad as previously reported. The Samsung player will be able to play dual-layer BD discs, whether or not the player has been updated with the upcoming firmware fix.

As well, Samsung’s firmware update, coming in October, will not only fix the Genesis noise reduction filter issue, but it’ll also add BD-Java support, so that you can make use of the BD-Java feature to be available on some fall BD releases.

You’ll be able to download the firmware update, or have a disc sent to you.

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