http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/ Engadget HD Comments for Review: Samsung BD-P1000 http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/Aug 9th 2006 10:08PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/
I went to Best Buy to check out this unit, and noticed that a couple of these units had been returned and were now being sold at a reduced 'open box' price. This seemed like a bad sign.]]>Aug 9th 2006 10:23PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/The menu are not slow at all.

They do seem to have alot of returns, but so do HD DVD players. I guess alot of people buy them to check them out and return them. ]]>Aug 9th 2006 11:12PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/Aug 10th 2006 2:57AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/Aug 10th 2006 9:57AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/]]>Aug 10th 2006 10:05AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/
Does this unit upconvert regular DVDs? If so, does it do a good job compared to a $200 unit?

Thanks,

Joe]]>Aug 10th 2006 10:33AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/Aug 10th 2006 11:15AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/
As Ben has stated numerous times before, without side-to-side comparison between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD you'd be hard-pressed to notice many of the faults in the initial releases.

Deny it all you like, but Blu-ray has the potential to match (and even exceed) the PQ offered by HD-DVD. So if Blu-ray succeeds, it will be because they manage to show the full potential of the format (i.e. "what Blu-ray can offer") on dual-layer disks, and eventually far exceed the number of quality new releases.

Sure, there are problems NOW, but that's no reason to expect that they wont be fixed. Banging on about the observed difference in PQ in early releases is irrelevant considering that BOTH formats are a fair way from achieving much of a market penetration. When that day comes, I'm sure we'll be able to make new comparisons between HD-DVD and (dual-layer) Blu-ray on 2nd (or 3rd) generation hardware.... which would be a much more worthwhile comparison.]]>Aug 10th 2006 12:40PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/
A Review of Robocop on Blu-ray DVD

Holy crap in a can, this disc looks horrible! I've written a couple of previous Blu-ray reviews where I'd called certain discs the worst High Definition image I'd ever seen, thinking HD couldn't possibly get any worse, but here Sony just keeps lowering the bar for the format. The Robocop Blu-ray is U-G-L-Y. And before you write in to chastise me that, "The movie is 20 years old. What'd you expect?" or "It was a low-budget movie. It can't look much better", save your breath. Those are bullshit excuses and dead wrong. The problems with this disc all stem from the video transfer and the Blu-ray authoring. Robocop is not supposed to look like this. No movie is supposed to look like this.

From DVD Talk:

A review on Aeon Flux HD DVD:

Æon Flux boasts the most jaw-droppingly impressive video I've seen from any HD source to date. I haven't viewed anything that even approaches being in this same league -- its diverse, cranked-up palette looks amazing, black levels remain robust throughout, and the image is impossibly sharp and detailed, looking spectacular even standing an inch or two away from the screen. No compression hiccups or even the slightest imperfection in the source could be spotted.

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All I can say is that if I waited (and almost did) for Blu-ray and the pressings looked as they do, I'd have returned it. I don't care what anyone says about "How it can be". It is what it is right now and people are shelling out $999. and $20 plus bucks a DVD for crap!

I have over 30 HD DVD's and 70% of them make my jaw drop from the quality.
Not one. I repeat, not one Blu-ray DVD review I've read says that.

Nuff' said.

M

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Has anyone read or heard from Sony that they were releasing Blu-ray but "it won't be that good. But maybe next year it will get better".

Hell NO!

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No one's read or heard that because you made that quote up out of thin air.]]>Aug 10th 2006 1:47PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/
You are comparing the very worst Blu-ray transfer to the very best HD-DVD transfer. What exactly is the point in that? Aside from hugely slanting your HD-DVD bias like the average fanboy does of course.

For those of us who are waiting to see how things pan out, it is entirely relevant to talk about how things can be. You want to be an early adopter, fine. I'd rather sit on the fence for now and wait to see what people say about the releases from both sides next year.

Oh, and there have been some very good Blu-Ray transfers. I have read some good things about "Good night and good luck". Check out High-def digest for their review.

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I am not sitting on the fence. I have been enjoying HD DVD since April and have every right to say how great I feel it is. I was going to buy Blu-ray as well and always believed it was going to be better. I've seen it. It isn't. It isn't even close.

I'm not a fanboy, just a logical person.

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"Blu-ray DVD...it's not that good now but maybe it will get better"

lol]]>Aug 10th 2006 3:16PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/Aug 10th 2006 11:35PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/
honestly steevie you sound more like a blu-ray fanboy than anyone else. just like sony dais, we are paying for potential- who wants to hear that crap when you just blew a grand on a dvdd player that makes you say "is this it?".

I'm rooting for hd-dvd. anything that sony does not have have its hand in imho has a better chance to succeed. All the blu-ray disc look like crap but yoou and other blu-ray fanboys wont accept it. sony is evil dude, as much as i love thier tv's, and thier emotion engine's, and all the other promises that have made out of greed.

When these so called journalists interview sony on the bu-ray format problems so far they just say "we are workign with many companies and things will happen." Why do the writers accept that garbage? Sony wrote the specs for the format, and it is set in stone- so then why all this crappy, mangled content coming on blu-ray?

a grand for "potential" is completely worthless. Stop making excuses for sony,as usually when that happpens its called payola.

wise up, so called writers.


-am

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Ben,
Hear me one last time on this (no guarntee on that).

1. Why spend $1,000 for a bad Blu-ray player now, and $20 plus a movie for Bad Mpeg 2 pressings when you could be enjoying a half price HD DVD player and fantastic jaw-dropping pressing of movies now. Not a penny wasted on a bad investment.

2. When and if Blu-ray gets it's act together with dual layer MPEG4 pressings and better players, the price will most likely be half of what it is today. A year from now Blu-ray players will probably sell for $500 or less!

3. So, the most logical choice for an HD fan now is to buy HD DVD and enjoy, wait a year or less and if Sony gets it together, buy Blu-ray (if you need to). You would have spent the same dollars you just did on one crappy Blu-ray machine and not have wasted money on bad pressings.

Ben, it's just logical. Be realistic. You worry that HD DVD is a bad investment, and you just blew over a grand on a bad Blu-ray player and worse pressings. Oh, that makes sense. "Gotta support the team, man". Give me a break!]]>Aug 11th 2006 9:37AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/
I can't imagine the studios getting away with re-releasing blu-ray movies if they ever manage to get dual layer blu-ray discs working.

The problem is that the blu-ray camp WAY underestimated the quality of HD DVD, which was released first. Sony have quite a hurdle to clear if they are going to make any headway in this battle.]]>Aug 12th 2006 8:28AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/08/09/review-samsung-bd-p1000/Aug 13th 2006 11:16PM