I would say around the same in my opinion. Have you considered the Toshiba XD-E500? Recently given 5* from the WHF team and has been getting great reviews elsewhere as well.
I have'nt considered the toshiba bacause i have got the bd 30 and 1930 and was planning on selling the 1930, just thought if it was better at playing sd dvd's i would keep it just for that.