bluray_newbie,
Welcome to the forum.
This until will not play AVI files, as noted in the "getting started" section.
http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp60/samsung_hd_tech/1500avi.jpg
I hope that helps.
--HDTech
Hi, I am in Sydney/Australia.
I purchased the samsung bd-p1500 and everything is working fine, blu-ray DVDs, normal DVDs and was even able to make it region free for regular DVDs.
One thing I am not able to do is play AVI movies which were downloaded from P2P programs.
Any idea why they are not playing?
I read about this all over the internet and I am getting very confused as some say it can some say it can't.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have a lot of downloaded episodes that I would like to watch and I burned a Data DVD with Nero and put it in the player and it doesn't recognise it.
Thanking you in advance.

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