The Official Samsung BD-P1500 Owner's Thread - Page 103

Run the red/white cables from the 1500 to the Panasonic.

Set the 1500 to PCM for your TV (stereo)

How can you tell if the BD player is properly upconverting DVDs?

I tried playing a DVD (The Departed, widescreen) for the first time and the PQ was noticeably grainy.

Is there some sort of settings I need to change or checK?

Has there been a firmware update yet that enables DTS-HD support?

So, I may be stating the obvious but you can update the firmware via burned CD. Here is that link. It's more of a pain and I think getting a USB stick is better....or perhaps the Samsung Internet site for BDP1500 will be updated soon for download. But, if you are in a hurry and can burn CD-R here is link:

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/do...sp_nm=BD-P1500

is there any benefit to using a larger than 1GB USB stick for BD-Live? i just got a sweet deal on a 16GB thumb drive, but that seems a bit overkill.

I don't believe we really know yet. However, since 1gb is required that 16gb would be overkill. Buy a 1gb for $5 somewhere and leave it in the back of the 1500 and keep the 16gb for other use.

that's what i thought. i've got several thumb drives in the 1-4GB variety. i thought maybe a larger one would preclude having to delete content all the time. not that i plan on keeping a bunch of BD Live info on there.

Set-up: BD-P1500 hooked via HDMI directly to my LN37a550

Rented Warning the other night. The DVD comes with BonusView content. Is there a way to turn-off/not display the "BonusView" icon?

After a while I would ignore it. As soon as the action hit the top left of the screen I couldn't get my eyes off that BonusView Icon.

Any suggestions? Been through the owner's manual twice...

Sorry, make that "Wanted" not "Warning".

This has been posted many times before...in your setup menu you have the option of turning it off.

Well, the Samsung website says that the drive should be between 1 and 4GB so it's possible that even if you insert a 16GB drive, you may not be able to access anything over 4GB anyway.

What firmware are you on? I think the very latest one (2.1) that came out a few days ago fixed that.

It already supports DTS HD, BITSTEAM. If you are speaking of internal decoding...I don't think it will ever do it?

The only disc I have had a problem with is X-Files....I took it back and found the disc to be defective.

Ok cool, my receiver can decode the bitstream so that's fine, do you have to do a firmware update for this feature or does it do it out of the box? Also it can be updated to 2.0, right? Also the audio drop out problem is fixed with a firmware update, correct?

Anyone want to take a crack at this question?

Really not sure. I've watched more than a few with great results.

The only thing that comes to mind is disabling any other up-converting/up-scaling features on either your receiver or display. From what I understand only one should be doing the up-conversion for the best results.

Check the info on your display, it should be able to show the resolution of the source being outputted. The front display of the 1500 also shows a small info like 1080p, 720p, 480p, etc. Having said that, don't expect that DVDs being played on this player will look like BDs, as they won't be. There will be some jaggies and graining on some scenes with DVDs even if your display has excellent upscaling capabilities.

I don't know if it would bitstream DTS HD-MA out of the box. The first thing I did was download firmware "Black Friday Morning-6:00am". Then, another update came out on 12/2 and I d-loaded it. Everything works fine.

What I really like about this unit is NO FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got mine last monday. It arived 2 hours before my new LN46A750 :-) Hooked everything up popped Ion Man bd in and wow looks great. I haven't upgraded any firmware yet. It aint broke don't fix it.

With firmware 2.0 (EU) I had some troubles playing transformers/ironman. both stuck on the 'warning do nog copy' screens after selecting the language. In 2.0 I could fix it by first playing disc 2 and than inserting disc 1.

Now with 2.1 this doesn't work at all. Both keep stuck on the warning screen, giving only a black screen. Info shows it is on chapter 1 of 3, but you cannot do anything. All buttons on the remote show the 'does not apply' logo in the right upperscreen.

Thank you Samsung for releasing this Now I cannot play 2 of my favo movies on bluray atm.

btw. it seems to happen only with paramount / bd-live discs. All my disc without bd-live play fine. Disabling bd-live doesn't work.

Do you have a USB Thumb Drive attached? Are you connected to the internet? BD Live requires both. Also try disabling the BD live on the the player. This might help.

Ed

Did all of that.. disabling BD-live didn't work.
As reformating the usb drive from within the p1500 menu didn't also work. The disc boots up, transformers giving me the 'loading' sign and my modem indicates that it is downloaden. Than you get the select language screen, the paramount hd-intro and than everything goes black and timer on lcd gives 00:00. Info shows track1/3 and nothing happens. I know that this is the warning-do not copy-screen. Same happens when disabling bd-live and disconnecting the usb thumbdrive (to totally shut down bd-live)

Mailed Samsung.. will wait. I do not think that both Ironman and transformers are defective, as they played in 2.0 (but also with a lot of hussle to make them play). A friends Sony player hasn't got any difficulties, so it must be the P1500 who has troubles with it. Are there any other bd-live discs, preferreble not from paramount? Maybe I can test if it is only paramount discs with bd-live wich has trouble or that it is all bd-live discs.

Is it the original or back up DVD? I am hooking BP1500 to 46A750. With back up DVD, I notice graininess on some DVD when compare to my OPPO. Less compressed back up DVDs look very good on the BP1500. However, with original DVD, the BP1500 image is more 3D and sharper.

I have a 1500 along with a Denon 3808 and a Panny AE3000U pj. Does anyone else have this combination? If so are there any settings that you think are necessary for any of these pieces?
What settings is everyone finding important and best on the 1500? I have not updated firmware yet. Should I? Is it necessary?

Slowestrider, It is your back up DVD. Often when you are making a copy your are compressing the material to fit on a standard DVD. Many original disks are dual layer disks that contain more information. That is the reason why you notice the graininess on the back up copies. On anther note, the new firmware that just came out seems to fix many of the previous issues that this player had. I just tried two recent disks and had no issues of audio drop outs or playback issues. I would also suggest getting a cheap flash (thumb) drive to use with this player to make it Blu-Ray Live. If you want to make Blu-Ray Live work you must use the drive and enable it. You must also be connected to the internet. If you don't want to use Blu-Ray Live be sure disable it in the Samsung menu.

What are you talking about? Mine decodes DTS-HD Master to PCM in my setup.

Edit: Now, it's decoding TrueHD 5.1 as well. Maybe I had something set wrong...

It will decode the core, DTS, not DTS HDMA. If you want this, you need to set the player to BitstreamAudiophile in Audio Setup. Also, make sure your receiver/prepro can decode the codec.

Note: The only real complaint with the player that I have is with firmware updates, it wipes out all of my settings and I need to re input them...no real biggy.

Is there a section on here that helps you decide on the proper settings or is it just that you play with it and experiment? I will keep working and trying to get the setting right. Is there a site on Samsung?

The output settings you use depend on the TV you have and the audio receiver you are using. I would suggest looking at the owners manual most information is in it. An example is if you have a set that accepts 1080/24 you can set it on the Samsung and If you have a receiver that can decode Dolby True HD and DTS MA you would set it to bitstream pro output. If you have a specific question on a setting you might want to ask it.