Samsung BD-2550/BD-P2500 Master Thread - Page 9

Took mine back because of loud pops thru my speakers while playing golden compass also some audio dropouts on some dolby tru titles.
reminds me of the same thing my bd-30 did before a firmware update fixed it.i am using a onkyo 805 reciever.
I like the 1080p24 picture from my panny bd-30 better than the same from this player and I was surprised because the 2550 has the HQV chip.

Hi,

at www.hdtvpolska.com you can see a lot of pictures and read the first review of BD-P2500.
Enjoy.

BD-P 2500 doesn't.

Best regards.

BD-P 2500 doesn't.

Best regards.

Just played Golden Compass last night on the 2550, bitstreamed to a 663...no problems at all....

Same thing here..... I have yet to encounter an issue with this machine

Does the player have a zoom function for use when watching an old non-anamorphic widescreen dvd?

My TV (Samsung A750) disables its zoom capability with 1080 inputs. (How lame is that?) Anyway, even if the TV would do it, subtitles would be cut off, so I'd prefer the player to do it.

I just picked up one of these little babies tonight-YES it does have the Reon HQV chip in it-it has 7.1 analog outputs, hdmi 1.3, bd live ready-can't really say anything about advanced audio codecs since my reciever only has optical and coaxial inputs-this player only has an optical audio output-no coaxial?!?!? I have an Oppo 983 to compare the dvd playback quality to-I set the HQV noise reduction to high (choice of off-low-medium-high) sharpness to medium (same choices) and popped a disc in and did an a-b comparison with the 983-result-about the same although the samjunk has better "block noise" reduction than the Oppo. As for bluray playback quality I'll have to get back to ya'll on that. Btw-since I work for BB it cost me a lot less to get it than a "civilian" would pay-about the same as the 983 cost me-and it does have a cooling fan on the back, and the model designation is BD-P2550-not BD-2550.

I found it unbelieavable this player cannot play this type of midia. I have tons of movies recorded on DVD+R. Has anybody tested to really confirm this is a limitation or is it just something Samsung is protecting themselves due to possible midia incompatibility (like low quality brands) ??

Do you actually belive samjunks hooey that this unit can't play dvd+r and dvd+rw media? Well guess what? IT CAN-99% of my home made dvds are +r's including dvd+r dl's and they all play without a hitch.

This is exactly what I suspected ! What a weird thing to do. I am starting to understand the kind nickname you've given them - Samjunk !!

My box had an air label from Japan to I believe Illinois. Then it shipped to me in the original box, with another label from Il to my address.

Check out my issue with GC on the 1500 thread.

Are you bitstreaming (audiophile) via HDMI? Hell, maybe it's my receiver?

I'm confused. Where are you guys buying these? I don't see it available anywhere yet.

You can get it at BB, it's a BB exclusive-mine started overheating so I took it back last night and got a new one-so far-so good-I love this player. And yes-I had it on a flat surface open on all sides, no restriction of air flow. I say samjunk but I've had quite a few of their products and have never had any "I'll never buy any of their s**t again" kind of experiances. Another thing I like about it is Reon HQV processing (duh)-and the fact it's about the same size as my Oppo 983.

That is surprising that your unit was overheating..... mine couldn't run cooler...

The one main thing that really impresses me about this machine is how it functions almost exactly like a standard DVD player even when watching Blu Ray discs..... like you I haven't had much luck with Samsung products in the past but, this machine seems rock solid. I've really been enjoying watching movies for a change and not having to deal with quirks!

I agree-it works almost exactly like my Oppo 983-GOOD MACHINE! I tried a bluray disc-300, very nice.

Hello owners of 2550;

The following hack has been published for the BD-P1500. Could you please test if it works with the 2550, as I believe they are very similar machines ?

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1) Turn on the player with no disc in the tray
Wait till the unit is at the Samsung logo screen.
2) Open then close the tray, wait to see the No-Disc Message in the top Left Corner
3) Now press the REPEAT button on the remote, followed by a five digit code.
In this case Repeat 76884

Now it to me about 20 tries to get this to work, It needed to be done without delay.
So if you don't get it to work straight away don't loose heart.

4) When it works a 4 will appear in the top left corner

5) Press 9 to make it regionless.
6) Press Eject to OPEN to open the disc tray.
7) Press Eject to CLOSE to close the disc tray.

8) Power the unit off

9) Now power the unit on again, it should now read all regions of DVD Disc.

From other threads I got the follow list of region codes.


R1 - 29334
R2 - 57538
R3 - 56732
R4 - 76884
R5 - 53814
R6 - 24462

Well, the time finally came for me to get a BluRay player and the 2550 fits the bill. I've been replacing all of my equipment this summer and this player is the last piece (well, I still need two rear speakers to fill out the 7.1 but that's another story).

I walked into Best Buy and looked around but didn't see the player. A salesman walks up and asks if he can help. I told him that I wanted the Samsung BD-P2550 player. He shook his head and said he had never heard of it and that I really meant the 1500. I told him, no that Best Buy had the brand new 2550 exclusively for a month and that their online site said they had them in stock. He called in another guy and the checked the computer and finally found that they had 2 in stock. Next it took them about 10 minutes to track the player down in the store. But it came out in a perfect box all taped up like it's supposed to. I happily took it up front to pay (after picking out 2 movies). I wound up acquiring $500 worth of Best Buy gift cards, so the player only wound up costing me the local sales tax ($40). Not too shabby of a deal.

Got it home and hooked it up to the Denon 3808 and Samsung HL61A750. Was simple enough, one network plug, one HDMI and power. 10 seconds later, she started humming and I was ready to start the configuration. I setup the player to do 1080/24, set the tz etc. I then put in BD Transformers, set the audio for Dolby TrueHD and then sat back and watched the magic.

WOW. I've got the HD-DVD player for the XBox and Transformers for it, so I had an idea of what I should expect. My expectations were blown away. Normally I can see the silk screen effect when playing normal DVD's through the old player, the grainyness pulls it out for me. It was about half way through the movie and I realized that I hadn't been distracted by that a single time. I started looking for any of the SSE, but really could just barely notice it even when looking hard. Very nice. The audio was excellent, had the receive cranked to -22 (kids were sleeping otherwise it would have been louder). The sound filled the room and I swear I was hearing things in the audio that I hadn't heard when watching with the XBox HDDVD. Could just be my imagination though.

Today I watched Batman Begins and it also looked stunning though there seemed to be some out of sync audio in a few scenes. I don't believe it's the player but actually the TrueHD track. I didn't see it when I played the DD track. I'll have to play with that some more. But overall both of the BD movies that I watched were very impressive.

After Batman, I placed in the Spiderman 3 regular DVD and played with the DVD noise reduction a bit. The quality of the image dramatically beat my old Sony upconverting player. I'd say that it came pretty close to the XBox HDDVD player for quality, but certainly not as good as the other two BD's. I also threw in "The Crow" which always looked crappy with the old DVD player. You could still tell it wasn't a great transfer, but with the noise reduction all the way up, it was noticeably improved.

As far as noise goes, the only time that I hear the player is when I'm opening or closing the tray. It's a bit noisy when it first starts opening or closing but only for about 1/2 second. While it's playing its whisper quiet from where I sit on the couch. Much nicer than the boisterously loud 360 player.

All in all, this at least initially appears to be a great player. I've signed up for a Netflix subscription so I can start getting more BD's. There's just no way I'm going to pay list price for those things. Jeez, over $30 ? Yeah, no.

--Steve

+1 but I think the 1200 looks better. Just my opinion though.

Try to find one though.

There's no issue with the TrueHD track on this disc.

Maybe, maybe not. The one main scene I noticed any issue with was in the prison cell, with the conversation between Wayne and Raz. Raz appeared slightly out of sync while Wayne did not. The exact same scene with DD did not appear out of sync.

Ok-I took my 2550 over to a friend who has a 1200 and we did an A-B comparison to see which did a better job on sddvd upconversion-both were set to high on noise reduction and low on sharpness-we both agreed it was a dead heat-the 2550 had a very slight advantage in block noise reduction-but you had to almost look at the picture with a magnifing glass to see the difference. Like i said before-I'm very impressed with this machine. Tried 300 on bluray in it-fantastic!! Worth every penny of the 373 dollars I spent on it-I work for BB and so get to use my employee discount.

There's no "maybe" about it. I watched this disc on three different Blu-ray players (bitstreamed on 51FD, S350, BD30) with TrueHD and no issue at all. I'm not aware of people reporting it in the BB thread either. The is issue somewhere in your equipment chain.

You know, if it was the entire disc or randomly with other disks as well, I might be inclined to agree with you. But the fact that it was such an isolated set of clips within the movie, I don't buy it. It was every time a specific camera was on him in that scene, it was off, but only with the TrueHD, never the DD. I'm not saying the entire movie did it, just a couple of clips, probably less than a 30-45 seconds worth across the whole movie. If nobody else noticed it that's fine by me. I'm just reporting what I saw.

It's very easy to prove the issue. Have you tested the disc with another player? Have you tested it with the player (and/or another player) hooked up directly to the display? Quite odd you are the only person experiencing this issue that I recall reading about at AVS - and somehow you actually blame it on the disc and not your player and/or some other piece in your set-up chain?

I've experience lip sync issues before with certain players - and I didn't automatically blame the disc for the issue. Sometimes it can be the player having an issue with a certain disc, and/or a compatibility problem with the player/receiver/display. There are multiple possibilties.

Also, the fact you are not experiencing this issue with DD means absolutely nothing here. They are two different/seperate tracks which are processed differently by your player and receiver.

I believe this has gone off topic for the thread. I'll be more than happy to continue it in a pm if necessary.

For the most part, the player is quiet, but it is quite noisy when loading up certain discs. But when the movie begins, it's awfully quiet. You can only hear it if your standing next to it with your ear next to the player.

My only complaint about the player so far (and a minor one at that) is with the networking setup. I really wish that when you have the player setup using DHCP, it would actually show the network info for it's acquired address in the UI. I kept thinking that it wasn't getting an IP Address because it kept just displaying 0.0.0.0. Had to go to my router and check the list of connected devices to see that it did infact have an IP address.

-Steve