Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-Ray Disc Player
Generic, Poor Quality, No DD True HD, No 1080p24 output, No 480i over HDMI, etc...
I returned this player after watching several Blu Ray movies.  Not only is the Samsung a poor quality unit with generic components, it feels like a feather it is so flimsy.  This product reminds me of a $200.00 DVD player.  I cannot believe they actually thought people would pay 1,000.00 for this.   <br /> <br />It's not just that the Samsung is a bad player and featureless, the Blu Ray movies released so far are single layer 25GB only with MPEG-2 and uncompressed PCM wasting space.  Sony and all movie studios need to use Dolby Digital True HD to provide lossless compression of the PCM track.  They also need to use VC-1 or MPEG-4 AVC.  HD-DVD has shown just how good the advanced video codecs can be if using highbitrate VC-1 (16-20 Mbit avg bitrate).   <br /> <br />Blu Ray is dead for me until I see: <br /> <br />1) 50 GB discs available for movies <br /> <br />2) Blu Ray players with 480i output over HDMI <br /> <br />3) 1080p24, 1080p24sf, and 1080p48 output options (in addition to 1080i60 and 1080p60) <br /> <br />4) VC-1/MPEG-4 AVC <br /> <br />5) 5.1 DD True HD or 5.1 DTS Master HD <br /> <br />6) HDMI 1.3  <br /> <br />No reason to buy any of these early players, especially when the movies give us no reason to do so... Blu Ray can go take a flying leap until the above criteria are met. <br /> <br />How silly that Samsung couldn't even provide 480i output over HDMI so that people with video processors could use the superior de-interlacing and scaling of an external video processor!  Providing the native 480i output of DVD over HDMI is such a trivial feature to provide, yet Samsung overlooked this simple feature.  Even the $200.00 Oppo DVD player and other DVD players can provide this.  <br />