Hi 
I bought off trade me a 2nd hand Samsung BD-E5300 blu ray player, the auction blurb said that it supported Vudu. And since I wanted to use Vudu I thought great, and went and bought the player.
Well it turns out that the US firmware for this model has Samsung SmartHub (I believe this is like an app store) where Vudu could be downloaded and installed on the blu ray player, however the NZ version of the BD-E5300 lacks SmartHub and so no additional apps can be installed. (There is a native youtube app built in to the firmware, and that is the only app). So this actual player doesn't support Vudu. I thought about returning the player but we needed the DVD capabilities urgently for business purposes and apart from the lack of Smarthub it serves it purpose well.

Anyway, is it possible to install the US firmware on to a NZ player and have it work correctly? Or is this just a recipe for bricking the device? (I have already downloaded the US firmware from the Samsung US website and it can be installed via the USB port of the blu ray player)

I use a smart dns service so access to the Vudu catalogue is not a problem, provided I can get the Vudu app on the player.

Cheers