SAMSUNG Firmware 1.0 here!!!! - Page 2

I was the one who had said it was an 8mb file. Looked again and it is indeed the 52MB size file. Time to go get those glasses checked.

I think the compressed zip file is 8MB. 52MB is uncompressed.

Alan and Gary - YES The hourglass is gone. Replaced with the colored dots.

Shamus - Playing SD/DVD the DTS audio behaviour has not changed.

I cannot comment on PQ at this time (Had eye surgery a few days ago - Ointment in my right eye)

Wayne

EDIT: It does reset the parental control as well. Be sure to reset it (defaults to 1-Kids).

Thank you Wayne !

Seems like the firmware brings June-build players more in line with July or later build players, what with this colored dots. Someone should check 4:3 material on BDs to see if the player pillarboxes or stretches.

Sorry - Should have qualified that:

Playing SD/DVD the DTS audio behaviour has not changed.

Anyone with a July build try to update the player to see if this is indeed a later upgrade? My refurb Samsung has the dots and the picture has looked fine. No signs of softness. Maybe this is all we will get.

I'm assuming this player will never do Dolby True HD. Not that I expected it to.

It doesn't pillarbox 4:3 SD/DVD

I had popped the firmware disc into my player this morning and nothing happened. Perhaps the reason for this is because it was an August build and already had the color dots instead of hourglass.

I took a break and popped in the Disc and the update is taking place as we speak.
The front LED readout says "No Disc" when you first insert the disc. This is normal, dont be alarmed.
Nice to see Sammy finally moving on the long awaited updates. I hope the next one is not to far off.

Yes. I know. I suggested checking 4:3 content on BDs, such as featurettes, music videos, etc. When I tried a June-build player, this was stretched out; when I tried an August-build player, it was pillarboxed.

Yeah getting rid of the hourglass and fixing the DTS are steps in the right direction. I hope they address the yc delay soon...

if the Samsung does have a Y/C delay that sucks for folks, luckily I use a scaler/processor, the DVDO VP50, which will get rid of that is 2 shakes

-Gary

I cannot say how much of a delay the Samsung has if it has any but I can say I have seen Chroma Delay issues between different movie titles. For what ever reason one will has something shifted to the left while the next movie works at default. I wish there was an auto sensing thing in the processors.

Cool.... off to load the disc in my Samsung.

Interesting that this came the same day that my HD-A1 2.0 disc finally came in the mail...

Just tried a 4:3 BD featurette, and yes it is pillarboxed.

Sorry, I'm a die hard Blu supporter but thumbs down to Samsung! I'm pretty sure people expected more. An update to the Aug build isn't much of an improvement. There are people here who waited months for this release and what they get is a half@$$ed (pardon my French!) update that doesn't even properly address what people have been complaining about.

I hope another update is coming soon.

So being that my player has a July build date, does this mean that the patch will give me no improvement in PQ? If that is the case I will have to return it next weekend before my 30 days are up and get either the Panasonic or Sony. Seeing that I can't find the Panny, Best Buy says they have them in their warehouse but none in stores in my area, I'm not too happy. Especially with the MSRP that the Panny has, they should, but they don't, have one on display so we can at least see if the PQ holds up to the hype.

Eightninesuited, I think its a great firmware update. Terminator 2 in DTS does not have that slight stuttering problem anymore. Before the update I had some problems from time to time loading Ultra Violet and Tears of the Sun. Full Metal Jacket would not load up at all but I decided to hold on to that movie until the update came out. I'm glad I did. Now these movies boot up with ease. As stated earlier most of my BD movies look really sharp, and may be a little sharper now. I would not be suprised if this update turned off the noise reduction but its hard to tell without a side by side comparison.

Something very interesting just happened when I tried to load the new firmware disc into my Sammy. It read the disc briefly and then said on the screen "CURRENT LOADER IS THE SAME". Does that mean my player had already received the update? If so, I still get stuttering when I play Lionsgate DTS playback. I think I may call Samsung support to get an idea.

I downloaded the firmware burned to a data cd-r with nero. When I put it in the player it says it is a cd. I called Samsung talked to T2 Tech support and they said I would have to wait for the next firmware on Oct. 31 and that would also fix the DNR chip. Has anybody else had trouble installing the update. Tech support told me they were having trouble.

I have a August build player that had the DTS skip issue, and I was still able to update my firmware. Supposedly there is another F/W that is going to be released at the end of the month that will fix the NR chip.

Just an idea, try burning to a DVD R and see it takes that.

You have to burn it as a disc image... not just an ordinary data disc.

WINRAR can uncompress and IMGBURN is the best software to use for creating CDs from image files. It's free and you can get it from : http://www.imgburn.com/

Best to set the write speed to 1X in order to minimize errors. This is the setting recomnended by MS when creating a disc from the MS Windows Vista images.

I agree load times have decrease significantly with this firmware upgrade.

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/show...?p=471#post471

I've just updated the firmware on my Samsung. It IS disconcerting that there is no explanation as to what issues the firmware addresses or what to look for, but here is what I've found this evening since updating the firmware:

1) Start-up time appears to be faster. I tried Sony, LionsGate, and Warner discs and they all seem to load the menu or logo screen in about 6 seconds, give or take. Also note that the hourglass is gone, replaced by the colored dots described by some on AVS forum on the units that have been modified.

2) DTS and DTS-ES playback on Blu-ray discs no longer cause stutter. I gave both Crash and T2 a test drive. I had seen Crash look jumpy when using the DTS-ES track before and switched over to Dolby Digital EX. However, I am happy to report that is no longer necessary for DTS fans.

3) 4:3 SD segments played back on BD discs now are presented in pillar-box. Before the update, the standard-def featurettes on Warner Bros.' Corpse Bride played back stretched to fill the 16:9 screen. Not so anymore. SD plays back in the appropriate aspect ratio. Side note: This correction does not seem to apply to SD discs.

4) Standard DVD up-conversion greatly improved. Previously I steered away from using the Samsung to play standard DVDs, using instead my Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD player for its excellent up-conversion capapbilities. The Samsung is now in the same ballpark! The once fuzzy clumsy up-conversion process has been bumped up to a respectable quality. I have not yet done a side-by-side comparrison, but suffice to say I no longer see the need to avoid this player to up-convert my SD DVDs now.

There may be other changes, but these are the ones I've noticed so far. I did notice there are actually 3 individual files in the firmware update, so I'm thinking that represents 3 individual functions of the player that have been specifically addressed.

sounds good TX, another update on the 31st should round things out well

-Gary