Samsung BD-P1400 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player | List Price: $399.99
Discount Price: $344.99
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Brand: Samsung
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 Year Parts, 90 Day Labor Limited Warranty
Features: - Dolby Digital, Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD support
- Ethernet Port
- 1080p display capability
- Upconverts DVD's up to 1080p via HDMI
Does the Job [Posted on 2008-06-30]
I picked this up during a Goldbox sale. The picture is stunning when connected via HDMI with 1080P, as you would expect with most any Blu-Ray DVD player. It is a bit large, and the pause button will only pause for 5 minutes before reverting back to the start of the disk. Also, if you hit the stop button, it does not resume from where you left off like other SD DVD players. I knew all these things before I purchased so I feel I made an informed choice. I just have to plan accordingly as I watch a movie. Given those flaws, it was worth it for the price ($267) but I would not have purchased it for much more. Nearly every movie in my Netflix Queu converted over to Blu-Ray once I enabled that as an option, which validated my decision to buy even more. Updating the firmware was easy, I just unplugged my ethernet cable from by Xbox and plugged it into the back of the DVD player and followed the instructions. The update was easy enough although my remote wouldn't work for a while afterwards. All is well now.
The technology is still young, as demonstrated with the firmware updates and the pause stuff I mentioned above, but it was worth it to me to roll with the punches to watch movies at their best.
Not bad, as long as you have broad-band [Posted on 2008-07-03]
Out of the box this device would not play any regular DVD I tried in it.
After updating the software over the internet, a simple task to perform that took about 20 minutes on a fast internet connection, it plays everything I've tried in it, even disks that would not play in other players.
Good basic BD Player [Posted on 2008-07-08]
I gave three stars and explaining pros and cons:
Pros:
- Right price
- Excellent picture
Cons:
- Not satisfactory audio (even used the Optical cable)
- Doesn't remember the chapter when stopped for a while and play back.
OK, but... [Posted on 2008-07-31]
With firmware 080114.01_XAA...
Seems OK. Plays normal DVDs OK, with better quality than a straight SDTV DVD player. Plays the three Blu-Ray disks that we've tried. UI is straightforward enough. Eject is about 8 seconds.
HOWEVER... it doesn't seem to have discrete on/off remote codes. That's just inexcusable for a modern device, and makes controlling a complete system using a high-end remote like a Logitech Harmony problematic. (Yes, I know the Harmony will remember the state of a power toggle... that theory works better in theory than in practice.)
Perhaps the latest firmware includes discrete on/off codes, and perhaps I could get Samsung to tell Logitech the codes, but that's a lot of hassle that I just don't want.
Back to the store it goes.
Most Features for the Money! [Posted on 2008-08-18]
This Blue ray player is the best deal for the money. It has more features than the rest. The smallest down side is we had to go to the internet to download a new version of the firmware for it but it was no big deal for us.
I would reccommend this machine for anyone wanting a great HD experience.
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