Samsung BDP1400 Disussion Thread - Page 125

Any ideas on when we'll be seeing a new FW update?

Come on Samsung!!!

Congrats Amber on getting those discs. Did you mail in the BB rebate form or the one from checkmyrebate w/the bar coded tracking # ?

My 1400 , via HDMI, is defaulting to 1080i output. My panel is a 720p Pioneer 1140. Should I change the Sammy to 720p or leave it @1080i ?

I think someone who spoke w/Tech Support advised that it was "supposed" to be released w/in 30 days or so..that was before Christmas, so who knows??

The answer is display dependent. Try both and see which looks better.

What does that mean Donnie ? As stated, the display is 720p so why is the 1400 defaulting to 1080i. (and will the Pio do a better job of scaling than the 1400?) Diffucult to A/B because of the time delay in changing the setting.

Clarification (I hope): I wasn't saying that the sammy outputs 1080i/24fps. I was saying that to get 1080p displayed on my pioneer 6070, I have to select 1080i, them 24fps - on ). Only then will the pioneer display 1080p (the pio will show you what the incoming resolution is). If I understand correctly, the pio will not display 24fps. Therefore it must be displaying 1080p/60fps. Is it possible that something is amiss in my sammy's little display resolution selector brain?
Sooo...Again - such weirdness.
None of this bothers me much. Guess I have too much time (spousal opinion) to mess with this stuff, and enjoy checking all the possibilities.

steveok

Basic question here:
It seems that the general consensus is to keep speaker settings on the Sammy set to "small" no matter how big the fronts are. What is the logic behind this?? Just to send more bass to the sub (LFE)? If that's the reason then why not just set the crossover on the system higher so more bass gets transferred? I've set my fronts to large and small on the Sammy and I really can't tell any difference. Just wondering if I should keep them set on small or large. Thanks in advance for the information.

Maybe I didn't wait long enough... If "Fantastic Four" would have loaded, then I would think that might be the problem...

Does that movie take that long to load as well??

^just for reference, since I did the firmware upgrade, which fixed LFODH, I've never had a disk take more than 10 seconds to load up and start on this player

Which firmware upgrade did you do? What current firmware do you have in your player?

One audio setup query :-

I am using Onkyo 304 with Sammy 1400, right now I am having optical cable for audio output and the sound is great with DTS showing on display pannel; I kept this one on bit stream but when I turned this to PCM the audio was very low and also only PCM but no DTS on display. With bitstream audio level of 25 was louder than 40 with PCM.

When I connected analog outputs from Sammy to Onkyo, it showed PCM but no DTS on display and also the audio was low in hearing very similar to PCM with optical cable.

So I am wondering is there anyway that I could improve the quality of sound ? I am happy with bitstream on optical but I didn't want to loose if I could be better. My receiver can't decode DTS-HDMA but it can certainly go up to DTS.

Any thoughts here ?

Your associating sound quality with sound volume. They are not the same. For the best quality audio with your Onkyo use the analog inputs.

On mine, LFoDH is definitely the longest to load. It is consistently ~90 sec. I have tested it a few times. It always plays flawlessly after loading, though. This is with the latest ver. 1.2 firmware.

So is there anyway I can kick up the audio level also, anything I need to do in Sammy config ? Why do people need to change Speaker setting in Sammy ? I hope that has nothing to do here when I am using Analog outputs? And if it has then why does PCM on optical is lower in intensity as opposed to bitstream ?

I am conffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuseddddddddddd !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Most 720p displays or projectors will accept a 1080i signal. The question is whether your display deinterlaces better than the Samsung. In my case (panny900 projector), it does, and the image was clearly superior with 1080i. As for a/b testing, try MI III. It allows you to resume from stop, so it only took me about 10 seconds to switch between settings.

First, the small/large settings are only designed for use with analog connections. I know that on the 1400 the settings appear to cause changes even when using a digital connection, but this is an error, not an intended effect.
So if you are using analog 5.1 connections, many receivers will not apply bass management to this connection. However, if your system allows you to set a crossover point for your 5.1 analog inputs then no, there is no difference between setting the crossover on the samsung or on your receiver.
Most people set their speakers to "small" with 5.1 analog because they aren't using full range speakers (and therefore need to choose small) or they don't want to stress their full range speakers with the huge amounts of low frequency info contained in most modern movies (and therefore want to choose small).
I run my fronts full range because my limited budget doesn't allow me a subwoofer that delivers the 40-100hz signals as musically and tightly as my main speakers do. I also turn my sub off during the week so as to not piss off the neighbors and keeping the speakers large means less things to remember.

Silver Surfer seems to take forever to load with the original fw, but plays perfectly after loaded.

My 3-from-Samsung just got here today! I sent in the form (downloaded from the web) just before Christmas... now I wonder where the 5-from-BDA are???

Does Samsung still have the free movie offer or is it only the BDA one now?

Regarding Samsung 1400 video drop-out issues:

I've now played four Blu-Ray movies through in their entirety:

- Pan's Labyrinth
- Spiderman 3
- Ratatouille
- Meet the Robinsons

I have had no playback issues with the first two, and an occasional playback issues with the last two. In Meet the Robinsons, the video drops out four times; in Ratatouille twice. This is with the player set to 1080i output, which matches my display.

When I force the output to 480i or 480p, I get no video drops or quirks. In 720p mode, the video does not drop, but in the locations where the drops occur in 1080i mode, I instead see visual mangling. By that, I mean the image goes black with a thick green vertical bar near the center for a moment before returning to normal.

Since 480[i/p] modes can actually read the data off the disc without any trouble, this would seem to suggest strongly that the player is at fault. I suppose I'll try for an exchange and see if it goes any better next time.

Hopefully this information is useful to someone

Kevin

So Sunshine played flawlessly for me today (well, the ending had some flaws...but you know what I mean). I'm using what I've been calling FW 1.0. But then I reread your post and discovered that our FW 1.0s have different build dates. Mine is 070809.01_XAA . With this firmware, I've been able to play every disc I've tried (including Sunshine, all 3 POTC, all 3 Spiderman, Simpsons movie) without a single audio or video dropout. Now Sunshine did take longer (by far) than any disc I've ever tried and it did go to "slideshow" for a minute before it began playing, but it did play.
So for those of you trying to figure out why some of us have no problems and others have nothing but... you might check what FW you started with.

I just downloaded what I thought was the latest firmware update this past Sunday... but it shows that I have 1.1. If I hook the player back up again, will it download the newer firmware?

Thanks,.

I have a Samsung 1400 and Pio 94, should I set the audio in my sammy 1400 to PCM or bitstream? I am using HDMI cables.

I cant tell for sure but I just got off the phone with samsung and they said thay could not send me the firmware update 1.2 they said they were having problems with it they said they are working on it. I said I hope you take care of your customers sooner thay later

I just hooked the player back up to my modem and it showed that I only had 1.1 firmware loaded onto the player.... 50 minutes later, 1.2 was loaded....

Live Free or Die Hard loaded in about 30 secs! I hope everything is good until the next time...lol

How is it? I bought the BD movie today (I don't have a BD player yet though).

I thought it was okay, certainly not an Oscar winner.

100% bitstream.