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First Blu-ray player is defective, fix 2 months off
In a big kick in the pants for early adopters, it's been discovered that the first and only Blu-ray player on the market, the Samsung BD-P1000, has a defective noise reduction chip which lowers the HD quality discs down to about plain old DVD quality. And the real twist of the knife is that people who have bought the players can't do a damn thing about the problem until September, when Samsung will get around to releasing a firmware upgrade that users will be able to download, burn to disc, and pop in the player. Yes, after spending $1,000 on a hot new piece of technology, the company that spends so much time and energy spreading the Blu-ray gospel is going to make you wait two months to actually use the product. How's that for customer service?
Via I4U News
By owen415 at 2:11 PM ON 07/23/06
This is why I resist the urge to be the first on the block when it comes to this stuff. You pay to much and you're their beta tester to boot. FYI to the venders. When I Beta test a product, they give it to me with the expectation that I will help them with the bugs so it will be a solid product when it hits the store shelves. Did anybody have the time to actually plug this in and look at the output?
By courtney2018 at 7:47 AM ON 07/24/06
I haven't had a chance to see the Blu-ray player yet, but I checked out the HD DVD player at Best Buy in their Magnolia center. They had the HD DVD Apollo 13 movie playing on some huge 70" widescreen. I wasn't impressed with the picture quality at all. It didn't appear to be any better than my regular DVD's at home.
If you can't visually see the difference between regular DVD's and HD DVD/Blu-ray, then what's the point in buying them? For all the extra content you'll get in them? Sorry, extra content isn't worth $500 to $1000 to me.
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