Samsung BDP1200 Master/Owner's Thread - Page 50

Originally Posted by yellowcanary73

Does the Samsung 1200 play DVD-R or DVD+R I read some where that it does not which means I could not play my home DVDS or my backups.

Originally Posted by plouie10

Update
You are correct, doesn't matter if the disc is in the player or not. I did many comparisons with component and hdmi with blu-ray and regular dvd's. On this tv with this player I could not tell any difference with my eyes. The upscaler in the Sony is top notch. So until they fix this handshake issue, I am quite happy with using component to avoid the handshake issue.
Phil

Originally Posted by Big J

Really? I never cared for the upscaler in the SXRD. With every upscaling DVD player I've owned, I preferred the player to the TV. I stopped comparing them after my A1. It does have a superb deinterlacer though.
J

Originally Posted by mroot

I was watching the SD Version of King Kong last night on my 1200, and once every ten minutes or so, the audio would drop out for a split second. I checked on both analog and digital outputs and it did it on both. Never had this happen before on any disk. Anything to be concerned about?

Mike

Originally Posted by valmont74

Any word if there's an fw update 1.2 soon?

When I checked with their 2nd level support they said there is no firm date yet. Nor did they indicate what the new firmware would include (fixes, function, etc.).

Originally Posted by nakenergy

Their website seems to have been updated.

http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/t...o&type=blu_ray

Originally Posted by krisjan

I just tried to access the 1200 part of the Samsung web site and got an internal error. Something is afoot there. Hopefully, it will be a new update.
Mark

Originally Posted by Barbarian

Between the lip-sync issue on 1080p/24, the occasional audio drop-outs, and the HDMI audio display thing that drives me nuts, I seem to be making too many adjustments than I am comfortable with to be satisfied with this player.

Originally Posted by crbaldwin

Anyone know if there are discreet on/off remote codes for this player?

Originally Posted by RoboRay

As the 1200's Play button causes the unit to power up, you can probably work out macros that combine the Play and Power commands to mimic discrete codes.

Originally Posted by ANSEK

The only special setting I have is I turned off "Noise Reduction" in the player.

I second comments from others. Regardless of the output resolution there is no way the A1 does a better job of upconversion than the BD-P1200. I closeted one of the most amazing upconverting DVD players for this unit and I am very particular about my video.

Originally Posted by buckloons

As further evidence of this, Toshiba's high end model (XA2) uses the same deinterlacing chip as the P1200

Originally Posted by Barbarian

I've had mine in my rack for a week, going directly into a JVC RS-1. There seem to be too many minor glitches for my tastes right now. Between the lip-sync issue on 1080p/24, the occasional audio drop-outs, and the HDMI audio display thing that drives me nuts, I seem to be making too many adjustments than I am comfortable with to be satisfied with this player. I am content to use my Sony BDP-S1 as my primary BD player until the firmware updates can bring this player up to speed.

Originally Posted by micah323

if the disc skips/freezes for a split second continuously and then the audio is out of sync a little bit, is that the player or the disc?

Also, does everyone's remote have a delay when you hit a button? It seems like it takes to long for the response.

Originally Posted by micah323

if the disc skips/freezes for a split second continuously and then the audio is out of sync a little bit, is that the player or the disc?

Also, does everyone's remote have a delay when you hit a button? It seems like it takes to long for the response.

Originally Posted by muellerfilm

Hello there, give me a break I was not doing another comparison with this Second Samsung player I was just relating my experience when watching a Blu Ray disk at home.

I did other comparison this morning at my office with The Tailor in Panama Blu Ray disk In the BDP1200 and the BDPS1 This movie has soft look to it. Looks like they transferred it off the internegative instead of the interpositive so I wanted to see how it compared to the Sony BDPS1. Many seem to point out that there is no benefit from having the 24P setting turned on so for this side-by-side comparison it was turned off. The sharpness setting on the Samsung was also turned off. Both units using HDMI and both set to 1080P. The test was conducted 14x14 room that has no windows and the lights in the room were turned off. Two Samsung 5296 Panels were put side by side and both panels have been calibrated the same. I started the Tailor in Panama Disks in both players and let them run. Because I did my own comparison on I what I thought. This time I let my employee's rate, which one they liked better. These people make for good testers as we are post production facility and many work with color correcting timing ECT. I covered up the players so no one knew which one was Sony or Samsung. Out of the fifteen people that came through to look at the players twelve of the fifteen liked the Samsung BDP1200 better. I did the same test with Into the Blue Blu Ray disk and out of fifteen people fourteen preferred the Samsung BDP1200. I did one last test with ten people looking at BD-R BDMV. This disk was Hi Def 24P footage shot on a Sony F900. This disk was made on Sonys BLU Print software at the highest quality settings. All ten people peferred the Samsung. This what I wrote about a few days ago as the night and day difference. Comments on the BD-R fototage ranged from pixelation and noise very noticable on the Sony BDPS1 to not looking as sharp as the camera would pan or the actors moved around. You just would not see any of this with the Samsung BDP1200 the images looked great no noise or pixelation, ect. On a side note we produced a disk with DVDIt PRO authoring software on a different blu ray burner and the results were the same. That DVDit PRO software gives you alot bang for the buck.
So there you go real people looking at what they saw and drawing real unbiased opinions.

Well that's all for now (going on holiday) and see all of you at NAB later this month

Originally Posted by RoboRay

Samsung doesn't understand the concept of discrete codes, apparantly. I don't know of any Samsung products that have them.

Originally Posted by tubegem

Hope you had a good holiday and thanks for a well done and extensive comparison. My question is regarding what the 1200 outputs through the 5.1. rca analogue output. I use a 5 channel tube pre-amp and no decoder. Have you been able to confirm what options are available (Dolby HD, Uncompressed multi channel Linear CPM or DTS HD) and how does it sound. I have had a brief listen to the Sony bdps1, which sounded great through the analogue output. There seems to be conflicting reports and Samsung has not answered my enquiry.Thanks, Ed

Originally Posted by ferrari fan

I rent a lot of Blu Ray and HD dvd's from Blockbuster and clean each one before playing. I've not had any problems with playing Blu ray's in my 1200 except Deja Vu, which I think the majority of people did have some problems with that title. Even brand new movies that I buy, I clean them first.

Originally Posted by millerwill

Ed, the 1200 does output uncompressed 5.1 audio over the multichannel analog cables. And I do believe it sounds noticeably 'fuller', or some other nice adjective, than digital optical/coax audio. The only problem is that your AVR may not handle the LFE channel correctly, i.e., it may come out ~ 10 dB too weak. You will have to try to find out if your AVR is one of the ones that does it correctly or not.

Originally Posted by millerwill

Do you have some good tips re cleaning the BR discs? TIA, Bill

Originally Posted by Big J

I use this

J