Samsung has been one of the most aggressive manufacturers in the Blu-ray market, releasing the very first player, the BD-P1000, and then following it up with the BD-P1200 and the BD-P1400 relatively quickly. The BD-P1500 is the next product in the line, and it looks to be an incremental improvement on the mostly well-reviewed BD-P1400. One of the biggest upgrades is that it's Blu-ray Profile 1.1 compliant, which means it can play back the "picture-in-picture" features available on some new Blu-ray discs coming out this year.
The other important upgrade is soundtrack support, as the BD-P1500 has onboard decoding for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, plus the ability to output those soundtracks in bitstream format. Most importantly, we're hoping the BD-P1500 irons out some of the operational quirks we noticed on the BD-P1400, including an annoying pause with certain discs.
The BD-P1500 is anticipated to ship shortly, and pricing is currently unavailable. If Samsung can get the BD-P1500 around AU$500, we expect it will be popular with people looking to jump aboard the Blu-ray wagon.
sweking
02/07/2008, 02:48 AM
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8/10
Easy to operate and logical menues makes very userfriendly. Excellent picture and sound. Havent had the BDP 1400 so i cant compare with that. But the BDP 1500 has a ethernetconnection wich makes it possible to upgrade softeware online wich i like very much.
Pros: Relatively fast load of discs. The ethernetconnection. Picture and sound.
Menues.
Cons: As with all blue-rays: the cost of the moviediscs is still to high.
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Demo
15/05/2008, 03:20 PM
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7/10
I hav one of the units on Test and it plays no better than the BDP1400
Pros: Faster to load tan the previous model
Cons: Less time looking at a blank screen
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