A very nice device. The SD upscaling through the Reon chip is very good on my Samsung 4254 plasma. I have a direct connection via HDMI, no receiver...yet.Why 4 stars, and not 5, because:- I'm running the September firmware update (v2.5), but I still see annoying lip-sync drift. I have done side-by-side comparisons with the same disc on the PS3, and there are no sync issues on the Sony.- The remote has poor ergonomics. A big slab with a huge array of similarly shaped buttons. Not a big deal, but I expect better from Toshiba.I'm looking forward to the next firmware update, and hope that it fixes the lip-sync issue.Update:I applied the November update (version 2.7), and the audio lip-sync issues I had before have been fixed.