We know this is a bit late into the game but it does come from a print magazine. Sound and Vision sat down and spent some
quality time with the first Blu-ray player in the wild, the Samsung BDP-1000, and walked away kind of disappointed. Right of the bat, they experienced the same softness and graininess that everyone else did, but these big-wigs of the audio/video world got special treatment from Samsung and had the opportunity to view a corrected BDP-1000 next to the original flawed one. (Remember,
Samsung went on record stating that the noise reduction circuit had been set to full, causing the picture to be soft and grainy) Did they see anything in the "new" player? Not so much - there was some difference but not a huge amount.
This is a very in-depth review and if you have been following this Blu-ray saga, this will be your cup of tea.
posted Jul 30th 2006 at 10:59AM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tube @ Jul 30th 2006 12:02PM
I have a real problem with a magazine receiving both the consumer shipping version of the player and a 'corrected' version. The review should be of the consumer version.
If I go to the store and buy the player, I want to know what I'm going to encounter.
If you're reviewing the corrected version, then all the shipping players should be corrected by that time too.
Ken @ Jul 30th 2006 2:29PM
So did anyone at Samsung bother to hook up the DVD player and watch it before they built and shipped them?
Just wondering.
Ben Drawbaugh @ Jul 30th 2006 3:51PM
Tube,
The reveiw was on the consumer shipping version. There was however a sidebar on the updated version and the difference.
GhostDoggy @ Jul 30th 2006 6:33PM
I was going to say something about the reviewers and their choices for feeding video from player to display and their inability to discern 1080i from 1080P, but the following statement just blew me away:
"However, Samsung confirmed for us that the BD-P1000 converts video from the disc to 1080i before converting it back to 1080p for output."
Why on earth would any player capable of reading the 1080 Progressive data on the Blu-ray disk and need to 'interlace' the video AND then deinterlace the video before outputting it as 1080P?
You cannot 'process' video in interlaced form so I have to wonder why the disks are read progressively and then go through an unneccessary p-i-p routine, which to me only affords a couple of opportunities to introducing video artifacts.
This is about as as!n!ne as I can imagine. Someone dispell my obvious ignorance and explain the logic in this, because it seems overly illogical.
WiFiSpy @ Jul 30th 2006 6:54PM
GhostDoggy,
The Samsung uses the same Broadcom decoder as the Toshiba HD DVD player, which outputs 1080i60. The samsung has a second chip that deinterlaces the 1080i60 to 1080p60 (while locking in the 3:2 judder)
Mike S @ Jul 30th 2006 7:25PM
I looked closely at both the blu-ray and hd-dvd displays at best buy. Both connected to samsung displays. Blue-ray had a lot of macroblocks in the picture when you looked closely, hd-dvd was crisper and better looking imo.