I have been checking Circuit City online every day and yesterday they showed stock of the BDP 1200 at several stores so I ran down and picked one up.
Now for the review:
I have a Samsung 5296D 1080P LCD panel hooked up to HDMI for testing
I compared the PS3 the Sony BDPS1 and the Samsung BDP1000 all with the latest firmware and this unit by far has the best picture. Bright vivid colors rich blacks. I really prefer it over the other players. The picture really just looks significantly better than the other players. It just blows me away how good it looks. Disk load times are very quick and I have had no glitches playing back disks. This unit really feels like a generation two unit.
There are more settings on the player than the BDP1000. There is movie frame 24FS mode. There is a HDMI setup mode that has Anynet+ HDMI-CEC. There is a sharpness mode was set by default to off. There is a DVD noise reduction mode witch I turned on to low setting and it seemed to smooth out the picture on the Departed DVD that I tried. There is also system upgrade mode for upgrading the unit. There is an Ethernet port on the back.
Now here is the real selling point for me and many others. I make my own bluray BD-R And BD-RE. and this player plays back both BDAV and BDMV SPECIFICATION perfectly with no skipping or glitches. This is something no other player can do right now. . By the way the quaility of BDMV is far superior to the Sony BDS1 and the ps3 when comparing BD-R AND BD-RE.
Thank you Samsung for producing a truly state of the art player.
Update for testing purposes I had the 24FS mode activated and I just got asked how is the sound quality. Well useing bitstream out with a optical cable the volume on my Onkyo 7.1 seemed to be a little less powerful but the sound seemed to be sharper and more distinct. As if you could here more of the details, very impressive. Also the remote is very responsive and works very well. Upconverted look very good as well and you can control how they look with the DVD noise reduction feature.
Mark
Now for the review:
I have a Samsung 5296D 1080P LCD panel hooked up to HDMI for testing
I compared the PS3 the Sony BDPS1 and the Samsung BDP1000 all with the latest firmware and this unit by far has the best picture. Bright vivid colors rich blacks. I really prefer it over the other players. The picture really just looks significantly better than the other players. It just blows me away how good it looks. Disk load times are very quick and I have had no glitches playing back disks. This unit really feels like a generation two unit.
There are more settings on the player than the BDP1000. There is movie frame 24FS mode. There is a HDMI setup mode that has Anynet+ HDMI-CEC. There is a sharpness mode was set by default to off. There is a DVD noise reduction mode witch I turned on to low setting and it seemed to smooth out the picture on the Departed DVD that I tried. There is also system upgrade mode for upgrading the unit. There is an Ethernet port on the back.
Now here is the real selling point for me and many others. I make my own bluray BD-R And BD-RE. and this player plays back both BDAV and BDMV SPECIFICATION perfectly with no skipping or glitches. This is something no other player can do right now. . By the way the quaility of BDMV is far superior to the Sony BDS1 and the ps3 when comparing BD-R AND BD-RE.
Thank you Samsung for producing a truly state of the art player.
Update for testing purposes I had the 24FS mode activated and I just got asked how is the sound quality. Well useing bitstream out with a optical cable the volume on my Onkyo 7.1 seemed to be a little less powerful but the sound seemed to be sharper and more distinct. As if you could here more of the details, very impressive. Also the remote is very responsive and works very well. Upconverted look very good as well and you can control how they look with the DVD noise reduction feature.
Mark
i hope this is not a april fools joke.
