Samsung BD-2550/BD-P2500 Master Thread - Page 139

Originally Posted by NetworkTV

Honestly, rather than sharing media with a PC, I'd almost rather be able to plug in a USB drive full of photos, music or videos and have the player access it directly. That way, I could, say, set up a photo slide show to run in the background on my TV when company visits without running a separate computer.

Originally Posted by johnny5

The cnet review of the 2500 has the following comment.

"The BD-P2500 has comprehensive soundtrack support, with onboard decoding for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, as well as bit-stream output for both formats. Onboard decoding means that even those with older receivers will be able to enjoy Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio in full resolution over the HDMI output or the analog outputs."

Does this mean my older receiver, yamaha vx-r1600, should be able to play 7.1 DTS-HD MA via the HDMI output if its set to PCM???

Originally Posted by nymjk

Regarding analog audio output: I'm running a 5.1 setup, 2550 set to bitstream audophile. Thing is that when doing the speaker setup, the fronts and center play correctly but the surrounds play through the corresponding fronts (left surround plays via left front; right through right) and the sub doesn't play at all. Any thoughts as to settings or testing?

Originally Posted by ResIpsa

Yes, that's exactly what it means

Originally Posted by Dubaruba

Please forgive me if this has already been answered.

I am looking for a way to listen to audio (either Pandora or an audio CD) through my BD-P2550 with the TV turned off.

Currently the Blu-Ray player is attached by HDMI cable through an Onkyo A/V receiver and into a Samsung PN50A550 TV. When I turn off the power on the TV, the audio output from the Blu-Ray player stops.

Is there a work around for this problem or am I stuck with the annoying "Samsung" screen saver any time I want to listen to music?

Thanks in advance for helping out a newbie.

Originally Posted by Dubaruba

Please forgive me if this has already been answered.

I am looking for a way to listen to audio (either Pandora or an audio CD) through my BD-P2550 with the TV turned off.

Currently the Blu-Ray player is attached by HDMI cable through an Onkyo A/V receiver and into a Samsung PN50A550 TV. When I turn off the power on the TV, the audio output from the Blu-Ray player stops.

Is there a work around for this problem or am I stuck with the annoying "Samsung" screen saver any time I want to listen to music?

Thanks in advance for helping out a newbie.

Originally Posted by nextoo

Try running optical from the 2550 to the Onkyo (in addition to your HDMI). Tune in Pandora, turn your TV off and switch to the optical input on the Onkyo.

Originally Posted by nymjk

Regarding analog audio output: I'm running a 5.1 setup, 2550 set to bitstream audophile. Thing is that when doing the speaker setup, the fronts and center play correctly but the surrounds play through the corresponding fronts (left surround plays via left front; right through right) and the sub doesn't play at all. Any thoughts as to settings or testing?

Originally Posted by kevinjs123

I just went through the FW update and have "A Netflix" as an option. But I do not have "B Pandora" I did the update check to see it missed something but is telling me no new ones. Do I have do do something special to get pandora or should it have loaded just like netflix?

Originally Posted by heticor

I got BD-2550, I look through the menu and the owner manual. I could not find where it could be activate.

any advise? thanks

Originally Posted by alokeprasad

do you have bd-2550 or bd-p2500? Only the former has pandora.

Originally Posted by heticor

I got BD-2550, I look through the menu and the owner manual. I could not find where it could be activate.

any advise? thanks

Originally Posted by heaneyj

Has anyone with a 2500 successfully watched 'Quantum of Solace' or 'Twilight'?

Originally Posted by TheBigVanilla

I've had the BD-P2550 for a few months now. The only recurring problem I've had is, depending on the disc, the "Bonus View" icon will show up onscreen even when I have that function turned off. Has anyone else had this problem? It happened all through "Twilight" as well as that post-apocalyptic movie with Rhona Mitra (title escapes me). Nothing I do with the remote affects this.

Any ideas?

Originally Posted by hdtv_crazy

Why do SD DVD menus always pixelate for a second when you select menu items? I also noticed the Samsung/Neflix/Pandora logos are heavily pixelated after a DVD stop. But they are smooth after you stop a Blu-ray or when you leave the Netflix menu. Bad Reon chip! Bad!

Originally Posted by pcdo

What receiver and connection are you using? Bitstream audiophile will send the compressed HD audio over HDMI 1.3 so that the receiver can decode it, assuming that your receiver has the proper codecs to decode it. If you're not using HDMI 1.3 or your receiver doesn't have DDTrueHD or DTSMA codec support then you should be using PCM (if using HDMI), or you'll have to use analog outs from the player into your receiver (if you don't have HDMI). If you don't care about HD audio at all then you can just use the bitstream reencode instead.

Originally Posted by ab2ab

Yes, and its VERY annoying!!

I've noticed it and its definitely some sort of bug as I've had two earlier model 2550's (10/08 build dates) and one 01/09 build date model and latter does not exhibit the problem as the earlier ones. Also, you will notice that if you select the "low" setting on the Sharpness and Noise Reduction modes, you will find that this setting will introduce obvious jaggies and artifacts (SD DVD) beyond what is normally expected when selecting these modes.

Anyway, I still have my 2550 from eoutlet (I only use it to compare SD performance with my Oppo 981; I use my Samsung 1400 for BD because it offers better PQ than the 2550 on my display) and hopefully Samsung addresses this issue with a FW fix soon. However, they won't know unless you inform them.

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Originally Posted by heticor View Post
I got BD-2550, I look through the menu and the owner manual. I could not find where it could be activate.

any advise? thanks
you need the updated online manual.

http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.co.../P2550_XAA.pdf

Originally Posted by heticor

I download the latest usb file from samsung site, then I hookup the ubs drive to the bd, every thing looked ok, then it turns off. After that I turned it on, check for the software version and it did not change. hooked up the uSB drive again the BD said that a new version of software was available, I did the whole process again. it turned off when it finished then I turned on again, nada the software version still the same.

What I did wrong?