From the Manufacturer
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Experience the blu-ray difference with the SAMSUNG BD-P1500.
TheBD-P1500 lets you have it all - watch your favorite DVDs and
blu-ray discs or listen to CDs with the highest-quality audio.
Full 1080p resolution gives you the most outstanding HD image
quality.Enjoy a richer, bolder color palette via extended gamut
YCC technology. HDMI 1.3 transmission bandwidth capabilities
ensure the strongest signal fidelity, while the Ethernet
connection lets you easily check for the latest firmware upgrades
online. Control all your Samsung AV devices from one remote, via
Anynet+ technology. And advanced audio compatibility, including
DD+, and True-HD, offers premium sound, for the greatest HD
experience.
CD & DVD Compatible
This blu-ray disc player offers state-of-the-art viewing with CD
and DVD playback compatibility. Even as you take advantage of the
latest video and audio advances, you can still enjoy all your
existing media content.
Built-in Ethernet Connection
BD profile 1.1 interactivity lets you download the latest
firmware upgrades and more with just a click of a button. Making
firmware upgrades simple and easy, you can continually upgrade
the BD-P1500 with the latest features.
Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby True HD
Immerse yourself in amazing sound. The BD-P1500 supports the new
Dolby Digital Plus Audio format. It also supports uncompressed
PCM Audio and Legacy dts 5.1 Dolby Digital. Dolby® Dolby TrueHD
delivers powerful sound that is bit-for-bit identical to the
studio master, unlocking the true high-definition entertainment
experience.
1080p Resolution
Enjoy lifelike, vivid visuals and crystal-clear details with full
high definition 1080p resolution.
Easily Connect Your Digital Devices
Tired of tangled wires? HDMI keeps it simple by using a single
cable wire to deliver the sharpest, richest images possible.
Conveniently and easily transfer high-definition video and audio
from your DVD player to your HDTV and other digital devices using
a single cable. HDMI version 1.3 transfers deeper color and
higher resolution, and handles new, compressed audio formats.
Control it All with One Remote
You're in full command with the BD-P1500. Anynet+ delivers
streamlined, one-touch control over all your Anynet+ compatible
devices such as the TV, AV receiver, and home theater. You can
operate all of them with a single remote control. A true “plug
and play” product, it comes with a Consumer Electronics Control
feature that lets you operate SAMSUNG HDMI products with one
remote control.
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Technical Specifications
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Compatibility
Playback Media
BD-ROM / DVD-ROM / DVD-R / DVD-RW / AVCHD / audio CD Playback
Formats
VC-1 / MPEG2 / H.264 A/V Quality DVD Upconversion Yes
Dolby Dital Decoder Yes DTS Decoder Yes Dolby Digital Plus
Decoder Yes DTS HD Decoder No Dolby True HD Decoder Yes
Functional Feature Local Storage
Yes
Picture in Picture
Yes
BD Profile profile 1.1 Connectivity USB 2.0 Yes (for SW upgrade
and memory expansion) HDMI CEC Yes Composite Video Outputs Yes
Component Video Outputs Yes S-Video Outputs No HDMI
Outputs(Version) Yes (1.3) Optical Digital Audio Outputs Yes
Coaxial Digital Audio Outputs No Analog Audio Outputs 2-Channel
Network Yes (for SW upgrade only) Product Weights & Dimensions
Dimension 16.9 inches x 3.3 inches x 10.8 inches Weight 8.6 lbs.
Shipment Weights & Dimensions Dimension 20.6 inches x 7.1 inches
x 15.0 inches Weight 12.6 lbs.
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Answers to Basic Questions About Blu-ray
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What is Blu-ray?
Blu-ray is a new optical disc format with over five and a half
times the storage capacity of a standard DVD (25 GB versus 4.5
GB). A dual-layer Blu-ray disc can hold up to 50 GB of
information. With that increased storage, movie studios can
finally provide movies on disc in high definition, offering 6x
the resolution or image detail of DVD and up to 8 channels of
lossless (better than CD quality) digital sound. The new format
can also provide interactive features that go well above anything
ever offered before.
Is Blu-ray different than HDTV?
HDTV, or high definition television, is a new broadcasting
format that offers widescreen, high resolution images offering 6x
the resolution or image detail of DVD, with up to 5.1 channels of
digital audio. Until now, the signals were only available through
over the air transmissions (via an antenna), or through digital
cable and satellite signals. You can not get HD signals from a
standard video tape or DVD. An HDTV is a high resolution video
display that is capable of receiving and displaying these HDTV
broadcasts or images. Blu-ray is a complement to your HDTV. It's
a disc media format that has enough storage to include an entire
movie, plus soundtracks and bonus materials, recorded in the high
definition format. You can play Blu-ray discs back on your HDTV
and see the same, if not better image and sound quality as you do
from HDTV broadcasts.
What kind of TV do I need to enjoy Blu-ray?
You can play back Blu-ray movies on any TV with composite video
or better inputs (not RF), but to get a worthwhile benefit from
the format over DVD you'll want to have a high-definition
television, or HDTV, with a vertical resolution higher than 480p,
and preferably higher than 720p. Most Blu-ray titles can deliver
an image with a vertical resolution of 1080i or 1080p. The more
horizontal resolution the TV can reproduce, up to 1920 lines or
pixels, the better.
How are Blu-ray discs different than regular DVDs?
Blu-ray discs are the same size as DVD or CD, but use a blue*
laser to store and read data as sed to the red laser used in
DVDs and CDs. The blue laser's shorter wavelength, combined with
a smaller aperture lens and a thinner cover layer on the disc
makes it possible to create a smaller beam spot size capable of
storing and reading much more, smaller information on the disc. A
single-layer Blu-ray disc can hold 25 GB worth of data, compared
to 4.5 on a standard DVD. A dual layer BD disc holds up to 50 GB.
This translates into the ability to store a full 1080p HD image.
This has a resolution consisting of 1920 by 1080 progressively
scanned pixels, compared to standard DVD's 720 by 480 pixels. In
addition, Blu-ray has much wider bandwidth than DVD, delivering
signals at speeds up to 48 Mbps, six times faster than DVD's 8
Mbps, and nearly 2.5 times the data of an HDTV broadcast's 19.2
Mbps. *technically, it's violet, but who's keeping track?
Will Blu-ray discs play in my current DVD player?
No. You will need a Blu-ray player to be able to read the
smaller, denser information found on a Blu-ray disc.
Will I be able to play standar DVDs on my Samsung Blu-ray
player?
Yes. Blu-ray players are backwards compatible with your standard
DVDs. They can also play CDs.
Is Blu-ray the same as HD DVD?
No. HD DVD was a competing format with less storage capacity
than Blu-ray. With Toshiba, its primary champion announcing on
February 19, 2008 that they would end production of HD DVD
products, the few companies that were supporting the format
announced that they would instead create products for the Blu-ray
format.
What does up-conversion mean?
Consumers have over 50 years worth of material in standard
definition formats. Up-conversion is the process of taking that
existing, standard definition material and converting it (lines
and pixels are copied to some degree) to the higher resolution
needed to display those signals on an HDTV. When done well, the
process can often improve picture quality, though it can't
increase actual resolution. The quality of the up-converter,
included in everything from up-converting standard DVD players to
Blu-ray players and HDTVs, can often determine the quality of the
picture.
What kind of cables, connections do I need to have to make
Blu-ray work?
You will need either a 3-wire analog component (typically
labeled Y, Pr and Pb) or an HDMI digital video connection between
the BD player and the TV. The HDMI connection is preferable. Not
only will it provide better image quality, but it will pass along
higher resolution audio and control information, as well. You may
get limited up-conversion options with standard DVDs when using
the component connection.
What is firmware and do I need it?
Firmware is like computer software, or the instruction set in
the player that tells the hardware what to do under various
conditions. Insert a disc, and the firmware tells the player to
read the disc. Press the Play button and the firmware tells the
player to play the movie. Generally speaking, the firmware is
invisible to the end user. But Blu-ray keeps evolving, and new
features keep being created. With each new feature that a movie
studio comes up with, hardware manufacturers have to release new
instruction sets, or firmware, to deal with it. Samsung's ability
to easily update the firmware in their BD players makes them one
of the best in the business.
Who supports Blu-ray?
At this point, nearly everyone supports Blu-ray. All the major
movie studios have announced that they would support Blu-ray with
both new and catalog titles. Thousands of movies and music videos
are already available. Most major electronics manufacturers have
been supporting Blu-ray since the format's beginning.
Can I rent movies on Blu-ray?
Yes. Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and Netflix, among other
places, offer Blu-ray titles for rent.
Are my regular DVDs obsolete?
Not by the definition Merriam Webster would use. You can still
play your regular DVDs on your Blu-ray disc player, so they're
still useful, but you'll want to replace them with Blu-ray
versions as they become available in the new format so that you
can enjoy the improved image and sound quality.
Is the only benefit to Blu-ray the video quality? Why should I
upgrade to Blu-ray?
You will probably upgrade because of the video quality, but you
may also appreciate the improved sound quality available on some
players as well as the advanced interactive features. Blu-ray
offers the latest generation audio codecs that can play back up
to 8 channels of surround sound with improved audio quality over
that of standard 5.1 digital soundtracks. This includes Dolby
Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS High Resolution and DTS Master
Audio. Blu-ray also offers advanced bonus features that can
include interactive game features or picture-in-picture
commentary tracks, not to mention additional features that could
be downloaded after the disc has been produced.
Do I need to buy a new home theater system?
You don't need a new audio system, but you should at least have
a surround system (five speakers and ideally a subwoofer) with
Dolby Digital or DTS audio decoding to hear the theater-like
audio experience that is available on Blu-ray. Some BD players
offer more advanced audio codecs that provide even better quality
sound through up to 8 channels of surround.
What do all these audio formats mean?
You can hear better-than theater-like audio at home. As George
Lucas has said, sound is 50% of the movie experience. With the
right audio equipment, you can hear up to 7.1 channels of sound
that is no different than what the engineers heard in
the mixing room.
What's the benefit of 24p?
Movies are recorded on film at 24 frames per second (fps). Video
is recorded and played back at 60 frames per second. Movies must
be converted to 60 frames before being played back on your TV.
Blu-ray discs record movie content in the original 24 frame
format, and convert the signal within the player to output at 60
fps for standard HDTVs. Some current HDTVs, like Samsung's Auto
Motion Plus 120Hz models, and undoubtedly more future ones, can
accept and play back the 24 frame signal without the intermediary
conversion to 60 fps, which can offer a smoother, more
natural-looking image.
What does Profile 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 mean?
Blu-ray's specifications for video are broken into three
profiles, each with its own set of hardware and software
requirements. Profile 1.0 gave hardware manufacturers a grace
period to create players that were capable of Blu-ray video
playback, but didn't need to meet the final standard profile
requirements. This grace period ended October 31, 2007. These
players, while not able to take advantage of all of Blu-ray's
promised extra content, will provide full 1080p video playback.
Profile 1.1, also known as BonusView, makes certain requirements
mandatory: picture-in-picture, secondary audio mixing, a minimum
of 256MB of memory (built-in or removable), and the incorporation
of a virtual file system. Players created and sold after October
31, 2007 are required to meet the Profile 1.1 specification, and
therefore will take advantage of 1.1-enabled bonus materials on
certain BD discs.
BD-Live (Profile 2.0) makes mandatory all parts of Profile 1.1,
but increases the memory requirement to 1GB and adds the hardware
requirement of a network connection. This specification enables
the even-more interactive web-based bonus material found on discs
that provide such content.
Features and specifications are subject to change without prior
notification.
- 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, S-Video outputs.
- Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, dts-HD.
- Ethernet connection lets you easily check for the latest firmware upgrades online.