New Sumsung TV Review: The Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-Ray Player ...

by Analytor

I have had my Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray player for 2 weeks. I've never owned a Blu-Ray player before. It looks good in my cabinet, it's quieter than my roommate Blu-Ray player and of course it's got amazing picture and sound. The USB port and the Ethernet port to work, but I do not have any firmware or code Updates still down.

The only real operational noise you hear is a track-seeking, which you can hear from the couch when it quietly. Not a big deal to me. Inoticed the occasional flickering in the middle of the screen in some parts of the mostly black) screens (such as power points. It always happens in the same framework, but it is a problem with the discs rather than the player could be.

A major advantage of the Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray player has more than my roommate is that the discs load much faster. It also helps that it makes a progress bar during the loading times, they seem less annoying. At least you know somethinghappens.

Of course, the Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray players are not perfect. It is 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 headphones, none of the older types of wiring - so you've gotta get a newer TV anyway). More importantly, there is no Dolby 5.1 audio outputs.

One of theUpshots of this is that you can not bypass your receivers pre-amplifier to play to the newer audio formats and let the Blu-ray player decode them. The old receiver I have only decodes Dolby 5.1 (no DTS). This player can send pulse-modulated current in the receiver from a Dolby 5.1 signal, but my receiver it only saw a 2-channel (not to "speak"), Pulse Code Modulation. At least the players can downgrade of sample rates, so that older receivers will still solid, even if it is not as pure asIt could be modern with a receiver.

I ended up going out and paying for a new receiver to take advantage of the sound quality that the Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray player offers. Maybe I'm a little obsessive, but it just did not feel right to have an awesome new image and do not need the perfect sound to go with him.

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