Samsung DVD-HD870 DVD Player

Bought this unit along with a new 61" Samsung TV. Picture quality is pretty good. However, I am having problems with the sound quality when using the HDMI cable. The sound will momentarily skip out every minute or two. Samsung tech support said it needed a firmware update and they sent me a disk. I did the firmware update, but it didn't help. By the time I got the disk for the firmware update, I was beyond the 30 days where I could return it to the store so then I had to send it back to Samsung for service. I just recieved it back after two weeks and it is still doing the same thing. Very frustrated now. Audio doesn't skip when I connect the DVD player using the composite cables, but the picture quality isn't as good as using the HDMI. So I have to choose between poor picture and ok sound, or great picture and an annoying skipping sound every minute or two. I have had the cable box hooked using the same HDMI cable and TV jack and they work fine. I wouldn't recommend this upscaling DVD player to anyone....