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The Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-Ray Player - My Only Complaint
I’ve had my Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray Player for 2 weeks now. I’ve never owned a Blu-Ray player before. It looks nice in my cabinet, it’s quieter than my roommates’ Blu-Ray player, and of course it’s got amazing picture and sound. The USB port and the Ethernet port work, but I haven’t had to download any firmware or code updates yet.
The only real operational noise you hear is some track-seeking, which you can hear from the couch if it’s quiet. Not a big deal to me. I have noticed the occasional flicker in the middle of the screen in some parts of mostly-black screens (like credits). It always happens in the same frames, though, so it might be a problem with the discs rather than the player.
One big advantage the Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray Player has over my roommates’ is that the discs load much faster. It also helps that there’s a progress bar during the load times, which makes it seem even less annoying. At least you know something is happening.
Of course, the Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray Player isn’t perfect. It’s not top-of-the-line, so what do you expect? For one thing, the only outputs on the back are the RCA outputs - there’s no coaxial, no headphone, none of the older types of cabling - so you’ve gotta get a newer TV (not like you wouldn’t be totally wasting the HD aspect of Blu-Ray by playing it on an older TV anyway). More importantly, there are no Dolby 5.1 audio outputs.
One of the upshots of this is that you can’t bypass your receivers pre-amp to play the newer audio formats and let the blu-ray player decode them. The old receiver I used only decoded Dolby 5.1 (no DTS). This player lets you send a pulse-modulated stream to your receiver from a Dolby 5.1 signal, but my receiver only saw it as 2-channel (it doesn’t ’speak’ pulse-code modulation). At least the player can downgrade the sample rates so that older receivers will still get sound, even if it’s not as pristine as it could be with a modern receiver.
I ended up going out and paying for a new receiver in order to take advantage of the sound quality that the Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray Player offers. Maybe I’m a bit obsessive, but it just didn’t feel right to have an awesome new picture and not have the perfect sound to go with it.
So my conclusion is that for those people with newer receivers and newer televisions - this blu-ray player is top-notch. If you have an older receiver, ironically, the best savings would be to pay a little more for a player with Dolby 5.1 analog outputs and continue to use your existing receiver.
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