Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player
- Full HD 1080p Output for Blu-Ray Discs and selectable DVD Upconversion to 1080p
- 1080p with 24 Hz Video Output
- HDMI version 1.3, component video
- Dolby® Digital, Dolby® Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, dts-HD
- Ethernet connection lets you easily check for the latest firmware upgrades online
Product Description
Experience the Blu-ray difference with the SAMSUNG BD-P1500. You’ll get incredibly detailed images with brilliant color in full high definition 1080p resolution. It’s the only media capable of delivering true 1080p performance on an HDTV set. Its Anynet+ technology lets you control all your SAMSUNG AV devices from just one remote. The BD-P1500 lets you have it all. It’s backward compatible with earlier formats. watch your current collection of DVDs or listen to audi… More >>
$208.74
Samsung BD-P1500 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player
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I bought this item in Best Buy before it was released officially, to go along with the Samsung 40″ Series 5 HDTV released this year. The up-conversion abilities are outstanding, and the TV picture is excellent. While watching the TV, I can change the aspect ratio using the TV remote or the Time-Warner cable remote, and I can fill the screen if desired to remove any letter-box video, but I have a complaint which I already voiced to Samsung. When using the Blu-Ray player the zoom function available during TV watching cannot be accessed, and I am forced to watch lettbox versions of the video whether I like it or not, even though the cable remote was able to pick-up other functions of the Blu-Ray player. The option dissappears. The “level 3″ Samsung technician said it cannot be done. Is he uninformed, ignorant, or just plain lieing? I replaced a 32″ Magnavox TV with the Samsing 40″ LN40A550, but the lesser quality Magnavox had an automatic option which pulled any picture to fill the screen if desired. Go figure. A $1200 TV and a $400 blu-ray player are outperformed by a lowly Magnavox when it comes to aspect ratios.
Rating: 4 / 5
I recieved this palyer 6/24 and tried to set it up. I currently do not have blu disk so I tried with my DVDs (these DVDs were able to displayed
at 16:9 on my samsung DVD player). This unit can only display 4:3.
I called samsung tech support (after being dropped 3 times) and the last
tech person said since this is designed for HD (blu-ray) and not for DVD, then this unit cannot display regular DVDs (DVD with aspect ratio of 16:9)
but only display full 16:9 with very small number on DVDs (those truely
recorded as 16:9).
Does this happened to any of you who own and played DVDs in this unit?
Thanks for your responce.
Rating: 2 / 5
This unit clearly warned upon opening the box that it would not play HD Blu-Ray DVD’S Returned for a refund…….
Rating: 3 / 5
This was an upgrade from the original BD-P1000. One of the best things, of course, was the $400 price compared to $1000 for the P1000 (the price of being on the leading edge). The P1500 responds much faster than the P1000. I can’t tell much difference in the picture quality (Very good by the way). The P1500 is still grainy when the picture has a lot of black in it.
The P1500 firmware can be updated directly from the web, but downloading a file onto a CD wasn’t that big of a deal.
All in all, if I had it to do again I would skip the P1500 and go directly to a 1080P player (but they are $2500).
Rating: 4 / 5
Well it started out as a gift for my friend and quickly turned into a little night mare. I bought this thing because my friend enjoys viewing improved visual quality stuff on the TV. Well that’s a given right, who doesn’t. Well first I purchased the thing and gave it to him. Now we find out they don’t even include the HDMI cord necessary to watch the high quality stuff in the first place. So then we had to shell out fifty bucks more or less for the cord. Rip off Number #1. So after we get the cord there aren’t enough places in either our TV or cable box to plug both the TV and the cable into the Player at the same time. So now we have the choice to either have HDMI Blue Ray or HDMI Cable TV. But don’t worry folks there is a solution. Spend more money on Rip-off Number#2 a fifty dollar box which will switch your HDMI connection into your TV from the Blue ray player back to the Cable Box. Of course you will have to spend at least another hundred dollars on more cables and that is Rip-off number #3. But we’re not done yet. Now you will have to rent Blue ray movies at a premium price and that is Rip-off Number #4, the gift that keeps giving. And is it worth all that. Well my friend thinks his TV is not as good as the one in the store so he’s going out to spend a grand on a TV that does justice to the new machine I got him for two hundred bucks. Do not buy your friend one of these unless he can afford your generosity.
Rating: 2 / 5