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...Still, when I got the Samsung Blu-ray, and loaded the first of a handful of currently available Blu-ray discs from Sony Pictures and Lionsgate, the player took very little skill to evaluate. It would either play, or it wouldn't. At first - to my dismay and to Samsung's - it wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player | 6/28/2006 | See Source »

...some reason, the first Blu-ray discs I tried in the player were spat out as unreadable. I tossed in a regular DVD, and it played just fine. Only after a day or so did the player inexplicably begin to recognize Blu-ray media. After its change of heart, I had no trouble with any discs, even ones it had previously rejected. Samsung assures me this problem can be solved with a firmware upgrade, administered via disc. The company also stated that its review samples were not from the same production run as the ones now in retail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player | 6/28/2006 | See Source »

After months of spear shaking on both sides, the first skirmishes in the high-definition disc format wars have begun. In early May, I looked at Toshiba?s chosen format, HD DVD. Today, I present the very first Blu-ray disc player, Samsung?s significantly more expensive BD-P1000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player | 6/28/2006 | See Source »

...picture resolution of 1920 x 1080 lines (over 2 million pixels) rather than DVD's 720 x 480 (nearly 350,000 pixels), it can't help but look nicer. In fact, it is possible that our eyes really couldn't benefit from anything higher in quality than Blu-ray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player | 6/28/2006 | See Source »

...some reason) looked smooth and flawless on my 42-inch plasma TV, and captured an even more cinematic brilliance on Samsung's 50-inch DLP TV. The DLP has a screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 (known in the biz as 1080p), not accidentally the same resolution as Blu-ray disc content itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player | 6/28/2006 | See Source »

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