Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-Ray Disc Player
A disaster of a format. Blu ray is Betamax all over again.
Here is the low down. The blu ray format since is launch in June has faced universal scorn all over the internet. This includes those that were anticipating the new technology only to discover it was not much better than standard dvd and no where close to the image that HD DVD provides. <br /> <br />Regarding the BD-1000, its $1000 price tag would expect one to recieve a component worthy of the price? WRONG. The chasis of the unit resembles Samsungs $75 dvd players except with blu lights. The thing is light and fews very cheap and too much plastic and not enough metal to justify its build quality. <br /> <br />The whole 1080p sales pitch you see advertised with this unit is misleading. The player is actually a 1080i native player, it takes a 1080i source off the Blu Ray disc and upon the last stages of video output quickly scales it to 1080p. You would theoretically get better quality video just sending a 1080i signal directly to your display and have the display do the scaling, as it probably has a much better scaler than the one in the Sammy. Because of this there is NO advantage whatsoever with its \\"1080p\\"  output as opposed to a unit that is 1080i. <br /> <br />all current BD discs are single layer only and encoded in mpeg 2 format, which is the codec used on standard resolution dvds. All the movies out right now suffer from severe compression artifacts and quality issues. IMO resembling something like watching a channel and its slightly out of reception. <br /> <br />load and remote response time is very slow and the format itself is buggy, there are many titles out right now that are glitchy and suffer from lost frames and stutter issues, aside from the compression artifacts and dirty print sources. <br /> <br />This is obviously a format that is not even close to complete, which was probably let out early so that HD DVD would not get too far ahead in the formate race. <br /> <br />If you have money to burn, youd probably be better off burning it :) <br /> <br/>if HD content is what you want look into HD DVD instead which is a much more stable format and actually delivers true HD content, while blu ray resembles a slightly better looking upscaled standard dvd.