Samsung BDP1200 Master/Owner's Thread - Page 11

Originally Posted by ANSEK

What cables are people using to connect your BD-P1200 to your receiver/amp?

Originally Posted by WaldorfSalad

Does the Samsung BDP1200 pillar-box 4:3 SD DVDs or still stretch them like the BDP1000?

Originally Posted by WaldorfSalad

Does the Samsung BDP1200 pillar-box 4:3 SD DVDs or still stretch them like the BDP1000?

Originally Posted by wrunow

DHL delivered mine this morning from Dell.

Originally Posted by johnnyd1

Received mine this afternoon from Dell (4/23) Just watched Happy Feet with the wife using the 5.1 analog output. I am very impressed with this machine.

Originally Posted by zglass2

Does it have a loud Fan (loud to me is the Fan in the Toshiba XA2 -- super loud is the PS3)?

TIA

Originally Posted by nathan_h

A quick review of this thread and the user manual on the Samsung site leaves me wondering: Can one set speaker delay/distance parameters, and volume/trim levels for the speakers, in this unit?

Originally Posted by zglass2

Does it have a loud Fan (loud to me is the Fan in the Toshiba XA2 -- super loud is the PS3)?

Originally Posted by LRS3

If someone has received their BD-P1200 from Dell yet, can you indicate why Dell shows it as "BD-P1200 Blu-Ray Disc Player - Dell Only"? Is there a Dell sticker on it or something else that makes it uniquely Dell?

Originally Posted by RUR

Nope. This is typically done in the AVR/pre-amp.

Originally Posted by krisjan

I placed my order with Dell on April 5. I got tired of waiting for the BD-P1200 to ship (today was the ship date but customer service called and said it wouldn't go out today). I cancelled my Dell order. I have now placed an order with Value Electronics. I hope they actually have these in stock and can get it to me ASAP. Wishing for a better experience than with Dell!

Originally Posted by nathan_h

A quick review of this thread and the user manual on the Samsung site leaves me wondering: Can one set speaker delay/distance parameters, and volume/trim levels for the speakers, in this unit?

Push comes to shove, I can do trim/volume in my pre-amp, but I cannot set speaker distance there for stuff sent via the analog input, so I need to be able to set speaker distance in the player.

Originally Posted by RUR

I've been using the heck out of mine for three weeks and I've never heard the fan.

Originally Posted by lorelevitt

Before I knew about VE's AVS offer this player, I had also ordered from Dell. When I found out about the VE offer, I cancelled the Dell order last Tuesday and placed an order with VE. Dell, of course, shipped out the unit anyway on Thursday and I was supposed to get the unit on Friday from DHL.

However I wanted to support VE and called Dell and asked why they shipped if I cancelled. Dell offered to lower the price BELOW VE if I would accept the unit from DHL on Friday. I said no-- send it back so it was rerouted back to Dell while in transit.

I checked with VE TODAY as to what is happening and got an email from Robert. He said that his "allocation has been delayed and I am now expecting delivery next week." Its a shame that Samsung sent the units out to the big vendors (Dell, CC) LAST WEEK but have stiffed VE for two weeks at least.

Hopefully Samsung will deliver to Robert next week and we'll get ours by 1 May or so.

I'm just as excited to get the unit and disappointed that I've had to wait a couple of extra weeks but I do want to support Robert and VE for all they do for AVS Forum members. I'm mad at Samsung---not VE.

BTW-- if you ever need an answer from VE-- call their 800 number if you don't get an email response. They're not hiding from us but don't always get around to answering their email as quickly as we want.

Originally Posted by phansson

Has anyone confirmed it this player actually puts out a 7.1 signal via pcm??

I know the original bdp-1000 did not.

Originally Posted by Michael Bishop

Also, it seems that the player can pass the "uncompressed" soundtracks of recent Blu-Ray discs to my receiver over the optical audio cable, but my receiver doesn't appear to know quite what to do with it. When confronted with the "uncompressed" soundtrack my receiver automatically resorts to using Dolby Pro Logic II. I'm not quite sure why this is.

Originally Posted by bfdtv

The uncompressed audio tracks are intended for use with HDMI and multichannel analog output.

The 15-year-old CE implementations of digital optical and SPDIF do not support uncompressed, multichannel audio. The most you will ever get from optical / SPDIF in a consumer device is PCM 2.0. Every Blu-ray player, now and in the future, will only output stereo (2.0) LPCM over optical / coax, due to the way those connections are implemented. If you just want to experience uncompressed audio, you can use the 5.1 analog output connections on the Samsung. If you want to experience uncompressed multichannel audio, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD MA, you must buy a new A/V receiver with HDMI 1.3.

[Some other BD players will decode TrueHD for output as multichannel LPCM over HDMI 1.1.]

Since you've got the Samsung BD-P1200 with HDMI 1.3, I would suggest one of the upcoming HDMI 1.3 receivers with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD decoding, like these from Denon coming in late June.

Originally Posted by Kris Deering

. . . Hate the fact that it is either bitstream or PCM. Deal breaker for me really. . . The audio thing is the same as the PS3. . .

Originally Posted by RobHT

I don't plan on upgrading my receiver (B&K AVR-507) for a while but I want to take advantage of lossless audio. I can get uncompressed (lossless) audio from the 5.1 analog outs to my receiver, right? I just won't get 7.1 and can't decode any advanced lossless codecs. Those are the only downsides?

For standard DVD, will I want to use the optical connection for DD/DTS and 7.1 surround?

If I have both optical and 5.1 analog connections to my B&K 507, will it prioritize the signal automatically. That is, will it play the uncompressed PCM (when available) from a BluRay disc but use optical for standard DVDs?

Originally Posted by bfdtv

Until a title is released with 7.1, that's hard to confirm. AFAIK, no Blu-ray titles are released in the U.S. market with more than 6.1.

However, the Broadcom decoder in the BD-P1200 supports 7.1 output via HDMI. The older Broadcom decoder in the BD-P1000 did not.

Originally Posted by RJ28462

Took the plunge on the 1200 via Dell. It arrived yesterday after only a few days. Was not double-boxed, but was shipped locally via DHL and looked fine. Hooked it up via DVI to my Samsung DLP-HLS5087, which itself is only a week old. This 1080P/60 setup replaces a Pioneer 503CMX/LGDVB418 (720P) setup in my main living room. The LG has the macrovision / 1080i hack that lookes awesome especially in 720P mode to the plasma.

The 1200 was setup in < 5 minutes and performed flawlessly for about six hours last night. The Info from the DLP displays 1080P (1920x1080).

For SW, I did not choose wisely (Night At The Museum BR). Based upon the average reviews of that title, I'll not go into any detail here. The picture did look very sharp with alot of grain in the background. For regular old DVD, I dropped in "Chocalate" which did look very good, but a little soft to my eyes and I'm not that familiar with this title enough to be subjectively critical of it's presentation on this new setup.

For audio, I'm using Pioneer 1014 receiver via digital coax(bitcode), I'll hook up the 5.1 later. This sounds good, but I did notice some "dropouts" during chapter changes while watching the Night At the Museum. These were very brief, the receiver didn't change modes and the wife didn't even notice. I suspect it's just silent space on the recording/transfer or an element of the 110 S/N Ratio (whatever it is, it's probably a good thing). Since no-one else has reported an issue with chapter changes, I'm hopeful this is the case. I did notice the low volume via the DVI connection to the TV and will try some tips noted above (PCM downsample = off, Audio:Speakers = Large).

If Night At the Museum is an average transfer than it looks like the 1200 is a keeper and matches very well with the 2006 DLPs.